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RE-LAUNCH – CALLS FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST http://knowledge.cta.int

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), an international organisation based in Wageningen, The Netherlands has an opening for one intern for a period of 6 months renewable once to work as a member of its ICT Innovation Team. The CTA ICT Innovation Team has the mandate to monitor ICT innovations and propose these to CTA management and partner organisations for con...

The deadline for the ongoing essay writing contest on “Youth and ICTs in Agriculture and Rural Development” has been extended to 15 August 2010. The essay contest is open to young people aged 18 - 25 years old, from urban or rural areas of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Win up to 1...

CTA, CCST, CARDI and UWI invite young professionals between 18 and 35 years of age to take part. Up to € 7,000 to be won. Deadline for registration form is October 31 2010. For more information see the document below and visit www.ccst-caribbean.org

The purpose of this call is to establish a shortlist of organizations that will be invited to tender for the provision of CTA’s current awareness information service i.e. the SDI service. Project Description CTA’s SDI service assists African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) researchers in the field of agriculture and...

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is an international organisation headquartered in Wageningen, in the Netherlands. It was set up in the framework of the Lomé Convention (now replaced by the Cotonou Accord) concluded between the 15 EU Member States and 77 ACP States (currently 27 EU Member States and 78 ACP States). Its role is to develop and prov...

CTA is seeking to attract a creative, technology savvy young professional with a passion for communicating ideas and an interest in leveraging the full potential of science and technology for agricultural and economic development to expand our interaction with young professionals in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific (ACP) and Europe and wider.

1. INTRODUCTION The CTA web portal “Knowledge for Development” (see http://knowledge.cta.int) seeks to put information on science, technology and innovation (ST&I) issues at the fingertips of ACP and EU scientists, policy makers and st...

Win up to 1,500 euros and improve your capacity! The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), in collaboration with FARA, Yam-Pukri, CAFAN, AYF, ANAFE and PAFPNET, is organizing an essay writing contest on “Youth and ICTs in Agriculture and Rural Development”, aimed at identifying innovativ...

Department/Programme: Information Products and Dissemination Department/Strengthening Information Services in ACP Countries Mission: Facilitation of the CTA Partners’ electronic platform The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA, see