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From 14th November 2005 to May 2006, the programme of the Italian broadcasting corporation RAI “Geo & Geo”, dedicated to the great issues of the planet and to the specific problems of our time (climatic changes, demographic pressure, natural resources, sustainable development between innovation and recovery of tradition, hydrogeological risk, pollution and traffic, water, etc.), will devote a series of special episodes to the presentation of some relevant innovations promoted by the IDEASS Initiative.
The following innovations will be presented during the broadcastings:
- Constructed Wetlands: Natural Water Purification System
ARPAT, Regional Agency for the Environmental Protection of Tuscany, Italy.
- The mother Kangaroo method.
Maternal and Nursery Hospital of Bogotá, Colombia
- Stabilak, for the natural preservation of milk
National centre for Plant Protection and Animal Health (CENSA), Cuba
- Integrating the practices of traditional and natural medicine into the national health system
National MTR Development Centre, Cuba
- BACTIVEC® Y GRISELESF®, Biolarvicides for the control of mosquitoes
Labiofam Institute, Cuba
- Biorat, natural biological against rats and mice
Labiofam Institute, Cuba.

The mission to the RASD of Mrs. Martha Pérez Viñas and Mrs. Nancy Cabreras (Centre of Traditional and Natural Medicine of the Cuban Health Ministry) and Mr. Mario Facchini and Marco Verdone (Association Raphael of the Region Tuscany - Italy) will be held from 12th November to 19th November 2005. The mission, which was promoted by the RASD Health Ministry, is aimed at analysing the possibility to include the natural medicine and homeopathy practices into the current health public services and to introduce them into the RASD national system. The mission activities will be carried out in collaboration with the UNHCR office in the RASD and with the national Health Ministry.

The mission to Colombia of the President of the BELVEDERE S.p.a. Mr. Renzo Macelloni and the Head of the Environmental Management System Mr. Paolo Ceccotti will be carried out from 10th to 18th October 2005. BELVEDERE S.p.a.is a public company promoted by the Municipality of Peccioli that uses a resource management model based on community stakeholding. The aim of the mission is to transfer this methodology into the Province of Vélez and Soto de Santander, whichy have shown interest in promoting a “public-community company” for the management of solid wastes. During the mission COLVIENCIAS will organize a Conference in Bogotá to present the innovation to all the national subjects interested in its implementation.

The joint mission to Cuba of the ARPAT experts (Region Tuscany, Italy), the institutions of the Guantanamo Province (Cuba) and the experts of the UNDP Human Development Programme was carried out from 27th september to 5th October 2005. The aim of the mission was to formulate a technical-executive project for the set up of plant for the natural depuration of water in the Drink and Soft drinks Company. The mission yielded very positive results.
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The mission to Colombia of Mr.Pastor Ponce and Mr. Luis Clergé from the CENSA institute of Cuba was carried out from 20th to 25th October 2005.
The aim of the mission was to present the scientific/techcnical and the functional/economic argumentations to introduce the use of the enzymatic activator for the conservation of raw milk Stabilk into the National Milk Regulation, which is currently being discussed by the Colombian Health Ministry. The mission yielded very positive results.

The biologist Beatrice Pucci and the engineer Riccardo Bresciani, two specialists of natural water depuration from ARPAT (Tuscany Regional Agency for Environmental Protection), will be on mission in Cuba from 25th September to 9th October. The aim of the mission is to design an executive project to set up a pilot system for the natural depuration of water in the drink Company of the eastern Cuban province of Guantánamo.

The deadline for the presentation of projects for the National Innovation Prize for Human Development is 20th September 2005. The prize will be awarded on Friday 14th October.
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The Director and two experts of the Maloka Interactive Centre for the rapprochement of kids and students to Science and Technology (Bogotá, Colombia) will be on mission in Cuba from September 27th to October 5th. The mission is organized by the Cultural Centre for Science and Technology, the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the “Oficina del Historiador” of Old La Havana. The mission, which is organised within the framework of the UNDP Human Development Programme in collaboration with the MINVEC (Ministry for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation of the Republic of Cuba) is aimed at assessing the feasibility of a cooperation project between Maloka and the Cultural Centre of Sciences and Technology for the transfer to Cuba of the didactic methods and materials elaborated by Maloka for the dissemination of science. The CITMA (Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of the Republic of Cuba) and the Japanese Embassy will be involved in the preparation of all the activities of the mission. On September 28th, a National Conference for the transfer of the Maloka experience in the framework of the UNDP ART/IDEASS initiative will be held at the Cuban National Capitolium. Many personalities of the national scientific community and authorities from the national Government and the city of La Havana will also participate in the Conference.

The ‘Mother Kangaroo’ method is now being implemented at the Durrës Obstetric Hospital, with the collaboration of the Albanian Ministry of Health, the WHO Albania, the UNDP Country Office and the IFAD/UNOPS PASARP Programme. The project received technical assistance from the author of the innovation Professor Hector Martinez and was supported by the Burlo Garofolo Medical Institute of Trieste (Italy). The Method is implemented in the Durrës Hospital in collaboration with the territorial health units, which orient potential ”kangaroo mothers” to the Hospital and guarantee the follow-up of “Kangaroo babies” once they go home. All “Kangaroo mothers” involved in the project have welcomed the method enthusiastically. For the first time, babies are placed close to their mothers soon after their birth, thus increasing breastfeeding and improving the mother-baby relationship. The project intends to consolidate the Method in Durrës and to extend it to other Albanian regions. In accordance with the Albanian Ministry of Health, the Durrës Hospital will act as the National Centre for the Mother Kangaroo Method by carrying out promotional and training activities and by establishing new “Mother Kangaroo Units” in other Albanian Hospitals and medical centres. Dr. Eduart Tushe, director of the division of Neonatology at the Maternity Hospital of Tirana, will act as national supervisor of the Mother Kangaroo Method ensuring its progressive adoption at a national level, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. The ART WIN international laboratory (Welfare INnovations) of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, set up within the framework of the ART Partnership agreements with UNESCO, UNDP, OMS-WMC and UNOPS, will support the dissemination of the Mother Kangaroo method within the health care system of the Mediterranean countries.