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IDEASS is re-launching these activities in Colombia in the framework of the UNDP ART REDES Programme and in close collaboration with COLCIENCIAS, Colombian Institute for the development of Science and Technology... more

In collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Technology, IDEASS starts its activities in Ecuador, in the framework of ART country-programme... more

The Constructed Wetlands project realized in the village of Narta (Vlore Region), will be replicated in the area surrounding the lake of Prespa, in collaboration with the CRIC NGO... more

The Government of Albania, as the Guest of Honor of the fifth edition of the Mediterranean Parks Fair, presented the national policies for management and promotion of the environment and cultural heritage... more

The objective of the Award is to identify innovations which can be channelled through the IDEASS Programme. The prizes of the competition will be delivered during the EBN Annual Assembly which should be held in the month of June 2008 in Budapest, Hungary... more

The ARPAT mission (12/18 December 2007) was carried out in the framework of the IDEASS activities for the promotion of “Constructed Wetlands” in Albania, in collaboration with GEF/UNDP (Global Environmental Fund), AULEDA (Local Economic Development Agency), the Albanian Ministry of Environment as well as Local Authorities of Narta village.
The ARPAT expert realized the mission in order to support the project final phase management. Therefore, he met with regional and local authorities, induced training activities with students of Environmental Engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Tirana University. He also gave a direct technical assistance to the engineer and other personnel from the specialized enterprise which is carrying out the works, giving continuity to the innovation know-how transfer in its critical and final phase, counting on UNDP ART GOLD/IDEASS coordination, through which the activities carried on were supervised and local personnel involved in the Project was coordinated... more

IDEASS participated in the 4th Latinamerican Congress on Traditional and Natural Medicine, which took place in Asuncion, Paraguay in November 2007. Representing IDEASS in the event was Dr.Martha Perez Viñas, from the Centre for Natural and Traditional Medicine of La Habana, Cuba. The objectives of the event have been, among others, to provoque an inter-exchange of information and knowledge about the present state of traditional and natural medical disciplines in the countries of the region, in order to put the basis for the inclusion of the different national structures into a regional Latinamerican dimension. An important achievement from IDEASS perspective, has been the expressed intention to work towards the integration of natural and traditional disciplines into national health systems and, to achieve that, the creation of a Regional Working Group among the participating countries, with the task to work on the issue with a regional Latinamerican perspective.

The second mission to Albania of the President of Compagnia dei Parchi Mr. Roberto Di Vincenzo and his staff and the Representative of Federparchi, main Italian Association of Natural Parks, Mrs. Stefania Petrosillo was carried out from 24th to 28th September 2007 in the framework of the IDEASS activities for the transfer of the “Compagnia dei Parchi” innovation in the Country.
The main objective of the mission was to realize a study field trip in the Northern area of the Country, in the Region of Shkoder in order to conduct a feasibility survey, to receive further information about tourism in Thethi and Kelmendi area, and to identify the possibility to implement a project for developing and managing the natural protected areas with the CdP’s methodologies... more

[p:justify]On August 2007 IDEASS opened its activities in Sri Lanka, in the framework of the UNDP ART GOLD Program, through a start up mission from International Secretariat. Following IDEASS methodology, a variety of national and local potential partners from different sectors have been invited and participated into several meetings at different levels in order to ensure an adequate dissemination of the full potentiality represented by IDEASS initiative. The main objectives were to introduce in Sri Lanka the international innovations promoted by IDEASS and to identify and collect Sri Lankean innovations to be internationally promoted.
Main interests have been expressed about public health innovations to benefit Sri Lankean communities (such as Filtron, Sierodiagnosis Kit for Leptospirosis, Mother Kangaroo method) and about the potentiality of Sri Lanka Inventors Commission to be the promoter of national innovations to be inserted in IDEASS International Catalogue.

From 15 July to 7 October 2007, a stage took place in Sri Lanka, as part of a master of the University of Bologna (Italy). The stage, realized by Davide Ceretti in the framework of the ART Program and IDEASS, enabled to develop a specific research on sustainable energy in the Southern Province... more