{"id":4195,"date":"2022-02-10T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2022-02-10T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T10:45:24","slug":"au-eu-thematic-session-of-14-02-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/au-eu-thematic-session-of-14-02-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"AU\/EU thematic session of 14\/02\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Thematic Session \u201cNuclear Science for a Safer Society\u201d &#8211; 09:00 \u2013 10:30, Monday 14 February 2022&#8243;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For over three decades, scientists from the European Commission&#8217;s Joint Research Centre (JRC) have collaborated with African partners to produce scientific evidence that can support the Africa-EU joint policy priorities. In the run-up to the 6<sup>th<\/sup> AU-EU Summit, the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Africa-Europe week is a fantastic opportunity to stress the importance of scientific collaboration in reaching the AU-EU common goals<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are invited to a thematic session on <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Nuclear Science for a Safer Society<\/span> in Africa on Monday 14 Feb from 9:00 am to 10:30 am. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this session will be to discuss the current and upcoming policy questions that require a multi-disciplinary, cross-sectorial approach and identify new and enhanced opportunities for cooperation and partnerships. The main conclusions will be reported in a high-level discussion later that morning.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>at 11:00<\/strong><\/span> am that same day, the Africa-Europe week <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>side event<\/strong><\/span> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/app.swapcard.com\/event\/africa-eu-week-of-partnerships\/planning\/UGxhbm5pbmdfNzk4MDU3\">Science for the Africa-EU partnership<\/a>\u201d will showcase the JRC\u2019s multidisciplinary and collaborative work on Africa. JRC will present the <a href=\"https:\/\/africa-knowledge-platform.ec.europa.eu\/\">Africa Knowledge platform<\/a> \u2013 a new\u00a0visual and interactive\u00a0gateway to JRC\u2019s work on Africa \u2013 and discuss <strong>how to strengthen the role of Science, Technology, and Innovation<\/strong> in supporting the policy goals of the AU-EU partnership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SIDE EVENT AT 11:00 CET: how to join\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you want to participate in this side event later that morning, you should <strong><u>register in advance<\/u><\/strong> for the Africa-Europe Week here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.swapcard.com\/event\/africa-eu-week-of-partnerships\">https:\/\/app.swapcard.com\/event\/africa-eu-week-of-partnerships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">THEMATIC SESSION AT 9:30 CET: how to join<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We would value your contribution in the morning\u2019s discussion to feed in the plenary. <strong>For your participation to the Thematic Session,<\/strong> <strong>please find the WEBEX connection link as follows : <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join from the meeting link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecconf.webex.com\/ecconf-en\/j.php?MTID=m1080989bff7bebc2360054e5b58280c0\">https:\/\/ecconf.webex.com\/ecconf-en\/j.php?MTID=m1080989bff7bebc2360054e5b58280c0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or join by meeting number :<\/p>\n<p>Meeting number (access code): 274 286 85988<\/p>\n<p>Meeting password: itG9Jm3ZY@2 (48495639 from phones)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>PROGRAMME for the Thematic Session \u201cNuclear Science for a Safer Society\u201d on 14\/02\/22\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>9:00<\/u>\u00a0Welcome, presentation of the agenda and speakers (W. Janssens, EC, JRC, Head of Department Nuclear Security and Safeguards)<\/p>\n<p><u>09:05<\/u>\u00a0Overview of the engagement of EC\/JRC Nuclear Programmes with AU (M. Betti, EC, JRC, Director Nuclear Safety and Security)<\/p>\n<p><u>09:15 <\/u>Current nuclear developments and opportunities for AU\/EU collaboration (M. Baaliouamer, Executive Secretary AFCONE)<\/p>\n<p><u>09:25<\/u> Importance of enhancing the use of nuclear technologies in the AU (K. Mrabit, President FNRBA)<\/p>\n<p><u>09:35<\/u>\u00a0Overview of the engagement of IAEA with AU (S. Abdulrazak, IAEA, TC, Director Africa Division)<\/p>\n<p><u>09:45<\/u>\u00a0Supporting the development of nuclear medicine applications in the AU (Prof M. Sathekge, Steve Biko Hospital)<\/p>\n<p><u>09:55<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0EU CBRN CoE Masters programme for Africa (Stephane Huriet, Senior Expert EU CoE CBRN and advisor to the AAF region)<\/p>\n<p><u>10:05 <\/u>\u00a0Panel Discussion + Q&amp;A<\/p>\n<p><u>10:30<\/u> END[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNuclear Science for a Safer Society\u201d &#8211; 09:00 \u2013 10:30, Monday 14 February 2022  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enen.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}