eI-Africa

European Commission Directorate-General For The Information Society And Media

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Framework Programme 7 (2007-2013) Research infrastructures projets eI-AfricaeI-AfricaBackground: In the last decade, the African continent has quite signifi -cantly changed politically and economically and seems to have entered a true period of economic and social development, and started to Project acronym: eI-Africamove — under the aegis of the African Union (AU) created in 2002 — towards an integrated area of peace and prosperity. In this context, many oContract n : RI-246650world powers have logically been striving during this period for closer links with the African continent. Th e European Union (EU) has made Project type: CSA-SAfew signifi cant steps in this direction by: i) Adopting a “EU strategy for Start date: 01/10/2009Africa” in 2005; promoting in particular a more coordinated approach of the European Member States policies and activities regarding Africa; Duration: 18 monthsii) Agreeing with the AU, end of 2007 in Lisbon on the “Africa-EU Joint Strategy and Action Plan — JSAP”, thus going beyond donor-recipient Total budget: 280 680.00 EURarrangements, and paving the way for a partnership of equals based Funding from the EC: 250 000.00 EURon mutual interest. Th e EU’s wish to treat Africa as one region is quite challenging, not only because Africa remains diverse (development sta-Total funded eff ort in person-month:15,5tus, population size, political stability, etc.

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Langue: English

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