The Ministry of Education is hosting the National Research Symposium in Safari Hotel, Windhoek, 15 - 17 September. Within the overall programme there is an ICT Stream and IST-Africa is organising a half day FP7 Training Workshop to raise awareness of upcoming Calls during 2011 - 2012 under FP7-ICT on 15 September.

ICT 2010 takes place in Brussels Expo from 27 - 29 September as part of the EU Presidency in Belgium. The IST-Africa Exhibition stand in the International Village will showcase activities ongoing in the 14 partner countries, promote IST-Africa 2011 and showcase the Africa4All Parliamentary Initiative

The 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership (Science, Information Society and Space) Networking Session will take place on Wednesday 29 September.

IST-Africa will present research and ICT capacity in 14 African countries during the eChallenges e2010 Conference in Warsaw on 27 October. The IST-Africa partners will be available on the Exhibition stand to assist you in finding relevant partners for future Calls.

The 2010 AU Summit took place in Addis Ababa on 29 January - 02 February 2010 and was attended by the Heads of States and Governments. The theme of the 2010 Summit was "Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development". During this Summit, key issues for consideration will be: (a) The Enabling Environment for Growth; (b) ICT Infrastructure Development; (c) Africa in the Economics of the Internet and (d) Capacity Building and Research & Development

In parallel with the Summit, the Department of Human Resources Science and Technology, AUC in cooperation with UNECA organised an Exhibition of Information Communication Technologies and Innovation for Africa. The IST-Africa Exhibition stand showcased activities ongoing in the 14 partner countries, promoted IST-Africa 2010 and showcased the Africa4All Parliamentary Initiative

IST-Africa organised FP7 Training Workshops in Bujumbura, hosted by Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Burundi on Friday 30 October 2009, in Kigali, hosted by Ministry in President's Office in charge of Information and Communication Technology, Rwanda on Monday 02 November 2009 and in Mauritius, hosted by National Computer Board on Friday 06 November 2009. These workshops focused on Calls for Proposals currently open.

IST-Africa organised a half day workshop entitled "IST-Africa -Linking European & African Researchers" to raise awareness of African research capacity and encourage the participation of African research organisations in proposals submitted under the upcoming Calls for FP7 on Thursday 21 October 2009, as part of the eChallenges e-2009 Conference.

IST-Africa organised FP7 Training Workshops in Lesotho on 21 September 2009 hosted by Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology Lesotho, in Botswana on 23 September hosted by Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology, Botswana, Dar es Salaam on 28 September hosted by COSTECH and Maputo on 30 September, hosted by UTICT. These workshops focused on FP7-ICT-Call 5, FP7-ICT-Call 6 and - FP7-AFRICA-2010.

Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) in cooperation with IIMC organised a follow on IST-Africa FP7 Training Workshop in Kampala, Uganda on Friday 06 March '09 focused on Call 4.

DG Information Society and Media in cooperation the Department of Science and Technology of South-Africa, is organising a workshop on 11 February 2009 at DG INFSO premises (Brussels, 33 Avenue de Beaulieu, room 0/54) on cooperation opportunities with South-Africa in ICT/FP7, with a specific focus on the Call 4 targeted objectives. This workshop was well attended.

IST-Africa organised a half day workshop entitled "IST-Africa -Linking European & African Researchers" to raise awareness of African research capacity and encourage the participation of African research organisations in proposals submitted under the new workprogramme for 2009 - 2010 on Thursday 23 October 2008, as part of the eChallenges e-2008 Conference

The Department of Science and Technology South Africa organised a FP7 Financial Guidelines Training Workshop in association with ESASTAP and IST-Africa in Johannesburg on 15 - 17 July '08. Click here for more information.

IST-Africa organised a series of FP7 Training Workshops in Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda between 26 November and 19 December 2007 in relation to Call 3 of FP7-ICT (FP7-ICT-2007-3).