2000 – ACTIVITIES

UNESCO VENICE OFFICE

  • AIDS Research and Prevention in Africa
  • UNESCO-CNR Cooperation in Biomedical Research
  • COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR AIDS AND EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING INFECTIONS (ICAERI), Rome, Italy
  • Advanced postgraduate training course on “Scientific Management Styles and Outcomes Measures in Biomedical Research”, 3-7 April 2000. UNESCO Interdisciplinary Chair in Biotechnology at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
  • Advanced Course on Immunology of Infectious Diseases, 3-14 April 2000 UNESCO Interdisciplinary Chair in Biotechnology at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
  • International workshop on “Signalling Mechanisms Controlled by Calcium Ions”, 7-10 September 2000, University of Padua, Italy.
  • UNESCO-ICRO Course “Window to the Eygote 2000: An Advanced Course of Cell and Molecular Biology of Gametes, Fertilization and Early Embryonic Development” Prague, Czech Republic, 20 – 31 August 2000
  • INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON BIOPHYSICS - Red Island near Bovinjj (Istria), Croatia, 14 – 25 September 2000
  • INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED SCHOOL “LEONARDO DA VINCI” - 2000 Summer Course “Processes in the Coastal Zone: Links to Management Issues” - Bologna, Italy - 3-14 July 2000
  • THE EUROMAB 2000 – First Joint Meeting of Biosphere Reserve Coordinators and National Committees, Cambridge, United Kingdom, from 10 – 14 April 2000
  • SEVILLE+5 – INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF EXPERTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SEVILLE STRATEGY FOR BIOSPHERE RESERVES Pamplona, Spain – 23-27 October 2000
  • EUROPEAN MARINE RESEARCH STATIONS NETWORK (MARS) CONFERENCE OF DIRECTORS 13-15 October 2000, Venice, Italy
  • PUBLICATION OF THE ESF MARINE BOARD ON “ESTABLISHING A FRAMEWORK FOR THE IMLPEMENTATION OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IN EUROPE”
  • 13th Working Session of the Regional Co-operation of the Danube Countries in the frame of the International Hydrological Programme - Postojna, Slovenia, 8-10 May 2000.
  • XXth Conference of the Danube Countries on Hydrological Forecasting and Hydrological Bases of Water Management – Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 4-8 September 2000.
  • Steering Committee Meeting in Vienna, Austria, 22-24 January 2000 ECOHYDROLOGY, A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF AQUATIC RESOURCES
  • Joint Steering Committee Meeting and International Workshop on “Perspectives of Phytotechnologies and Ecohydrology as Tools for Sustainable Management of Water and Landscape Resources” in Walewice, Poland, 16-19 September 2000
  • Third volunteer summer camp - 14-29 August 2000 .UNESCO PROJECT ON "URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND FRESHWATER RESOURCES: SMALL COASTAL CITIES" IN THE ADRIATIC REGION
  • International Workshop for the evaluation of the experiences implemented in the Omišalj and Bakar case studies, in the Primorsko Goranska County (Croatia), Venice, on 23 - 24 November 2000
  • International Meeting for the evaluation of wise practices developed within the frame of the “Integrated Kotor Town environmental management Pilot Project” Kotor, Yugoslavia (Montenegro), 17 - 22 December 2000
  • Summer School on “Processes in the Coastal Zones: Links to Management Issues” organized in Bologna, Italy, 3-14 July 2000
  • “Venice Inner Canals” Project
  • Project on the “Development of a Sediment Transport Model of the Inner Canals of Venice”
  • Conference of Directors, 13-15 October 2000, Venice, Italy. European Marine Research Stations Network (MARS)
  • Technical Workshop (MESC-SESAME), Amman, Jordan – September 2000
  • 2ND INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE TOURISM MANAGEMENT IN HERITAGE CITIES - Nazareth, 3-5 February 2000
  • 9th International Course on Wood Conservation Technology (Oslo and Trondheim, Norway, 29 May – 7 July 2000)
  • Regional Seminar on the Project NOW : New Opportunity for Women – by the Revitalisation of Traditional Crafts (Venice, 2 June 2000)
  • 3rd Summer School for Conservators of Cultural Heritage (Zamosc, Poland, 5-16 September 2000)
  • Training Course on the Conservation of Paper Materials and Books in Central and Eastern Europe: Basic Practice and Digital Support (Pula, Croatia, 18-30 September 2000)
  • ICOMOS/UNESCO International Conference “Earthquake Safe” Lessons to be learned from traditional construction (Istanbul, 16-18 November 2000)
  • 3rd Day of Excellence of Small Enterprises: “Creativity and Artistic handicrafts: Tradition for Future” (Bologna, 21 November 2000)
  • Venice for J. Brotsky - 60th Anniversary of the Birth of the late J. Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature (Venice, 24-26 May 2000)
  • 11th Ciak Junior Festival (Treviso, Italy 29 May - 3 June 2000)
  • Meeting of the UNESCO Venice Office (UVO) and Europa Nostra, and the Award Ceremony of the 1999 Europa Nostra Prizes (Venice, 24-25 March 2000)
  • Visit of the Chinese Delegation to Venice: Study Tours to Europe Supported by the World Heritage Centre (Venice, 8-9 May 2000)
  • Celebration of the Inscription of Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia, Italy on the UNESCO World Heritage List (Barumini, Sardinia, 21 June 2000)
  • Euro-Mediterranean Regional Seminar of the UNESCO Forum - University and Heritage: Training in Heritage: New Skills and Professional Profiles (Vicenza, 24-25 July 2000)
  • Outdoor Exhibition of Roman Mosaic Work at the “Fondo Cossar”, Archaeological Area in Aquileia, World Heritage Site in Italy (Aquileia, November 2000)

Grants & Fellowships

  • Dr. Giulia Cappelli (Italy) for receiving special training in modern methods and techniques of biomedical research before her research assignments at CIRBA in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
  • Dr. Anjay Kuman Garg (India) to carry out studies in the modification of the immune system by mycobacterial infection at the research facilities of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
  • Dr. Silvia Vendetti (Italy) for arranging training of Dr. G. Cappelli at the research facilities of ICAERI and for the elaboration of proposals on scientific-clinical laboratories to be installed at CIRBA in Abidjan.
  • Sr. Simona Ferrara (Italy) for research related to the evaluation of apoptosis of brochoalveolar lavage (B.A.L.) samples and to the verification of the occurrence of any correlation between the induction of programmed cell death and the cykotine pattern expressed by the infected lung cells to be implemented at the research facilities of the Unit of Research and Diagnosis of Tuberculosis at the Monaldi Hospital in Naples, Italy.
  • Mr. Giuseppe Mallardo (Italy) for research related to the evaluation of mycobacterial DNA in human brochoalveolar lavage (B.A.L.) to be carried out at the Unit of Research and Diagnosis of Tuberculosis at the Monaldi Hospital in Naples, Italy.
  • Ms. Modestina Migone (Italy) for the processing and analyzing of biological samples coming from CIRBA at the facilities of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of CNR.
  • Mrs. Evelyne Sia (technician) trained in techniques for cell proliferation and cytokines at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. The scientific supervisor was Prof. L. Montagnier
  • Mr. Thomas D’Aquin Toni (researcher) trained in techniques for HIV sequences at the L. Spallanzani Center in Rome, Italy. The scientific supervisor was Prof. V. Colizzi.
  • Mr. Petr Kosina from the Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture of the Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic for undertaking a study of salinity impact on agricultural plants including their genetic structure at the Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas in Valencia, Spain under the scientific supervision of Dr. V. Moreno Ferrero, Director of the Plant Cell Laboratory of this Institute.
  • Mr. Viliam Snakel from the Parasitological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovakia for carrying out research in the field of molecular biology and biochemistry applied to parasitology and mainly for evaluating the degree of genetic divergence in eubothrcem races at the Institute of Parasitology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
  • Mr. Sergei Drakin from the Department of Cryobiology of the Reproductive Systems of the Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine for undertaking a study of cryobiology application to fish maturation at the Research Institute of Fisheries, Acquaculture and Irrigation in Berettyoujfaln, Hungary under the scientific supervision of Dr. Olga Bukouskaya.
  • Ms. Maria C. Palidon from the Institute of Physiological Chemistry of the Hijnrich Hein University, Dusseldorf, Germany was provided with a travel grant to attend the International Workshop on “Micronutrients and Health – Molecular Biological Mechanisms” held in July 2000 in Malaysia.