Sentences with phrase «international collaboration efforts»

Since 2001, Rutagarama has continued his conservation work, playing a major role in facilitating international collaboration efforts to protect the Central Albertine Rift, a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Virunga mountain gorillas» habitat.

The Cognitive Neuroscience Program at the National Science Foundation, together with other NSF programs, has an important role in supporting cognitive neuroscience research in the United States, including international collaboration efforts.

Not exact matches

The Indonesian government is ramping up efforts to become food - secure through rice self - sufficiency and plans to greatly increase investments in agriculture, as well as strengthen collaborations with international research partners.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

But Beijing is often sidelined in international collaboration, and U.S. laws against collaboration slow efforts down

In a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, University College London and several other national and international partners, researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Oxford Martin School have investigated the geophysical likelihood of limiting global warming to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

From its global efforts, ETH hopes to harvest novel education models, cultivate international collaborations, and broaden the institute's knowledge base.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large - scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists.

That effort, a collaboration between the GWC and Conservational International, rediscovered only one of its «top 10» species in its first six months but found a total of 15 species over its first year as a result of 33 expeditions.

The Energy Department may proceed with a «modified» plan to build a prototype coal - burning power plant that would capture and store carbon dioxide as part of new efforts to expand international collaboration on carbon - management technologies, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today.

In this role, he is in charge of supporting the organization's efforts to promote and engage in strategic bilateral and multilateral collaborations with international partners to advance science - based public health and medical emergency preparedness and response.

It could even be an international effort, Newmark suggests, if Iran were to set up a collaboration under OPCW's auspices.

Given the high projected cost of creating a burning physics experiment and given that the U.S. now funds only about one sixth of the world research effort, a strategy based on international collaboration on fusion energy research and development can be highly cost effective.

President of the U.K.'s Royal Society Venki Ramakkrishnan also weighed in after the vote, citing in a statement the importance of the EU's supplemental funding of U.K. research efforts, the necessity of international collaboration to further science, and the exchange of talent between the U.K. and the EU.

LISA, which is designed to take the fledgling field of gravitational wave astronomy to the next level, is an international scientific effort led by the European Space Agency in collaboration with NASA.

The Indonesian government is ramping up efforts to become food - secure through rice self - sufficiency and plans to greatly increase investments in agriculture, as well as strengthen collaborations with international research partners.

Prof. Chong Soo Lee has made much effort for international collaboration not only in the research works but also in exchanging ideas and researchers.

Efforts to engage in international collaborations through science and technology have been going on for many years.

By contrast, a sister effort, the international Campbell Collaboration's Social, Psychological, Educational, and Criminological Trials Registry, begun in 1999, includes about 10,000 randomized and possibly randomized trials.

In 2009 Lions Clubs International (LCI) launched a new partnership with Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) in an effort to strengthen collaboration between community coalitions and Lions clubs members.

In collaboration with International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), REA evaluated a pilot effort of the South Carolina State Department of Education to test the feasibility of virtual schooling for the state, examining its online learning course management system (Blackboard), registration system, quality assurance measures, and the need for and response to the program around the state.

Some are to some degree antagonistic toward each other, but a few years ago when epilepsy was recognized as a serious breed health concern an international grass - roots effort lead to a large collection of research samples and cooperation among key clubs, foundations and organizations to provide funding for a research project that involves an international collaboration.

As an artist - curator, his work supports the efforts of local and international artists by creating platforms for experimentation, discussion and collaboration.

Alex Katz X H&M In an effort to create a meaningful dialogue between fashion and art aficionados alike, H&M chose to launch the collaboration during the leading international contemporary and modern art fair in Miami.

Conceived in collaboration with actor (and art collector) Ben Stiller and his eponymous philanthropic foundation to bolster relief efforts in the earthquake - ravaged Caribbean country — the poorest in the Western Hemisphere — the sale brings together 26 paintings, drawings and sculptures, most of which were made specifically for the auction and donated by 25 international artists, ranging from Neo Rauch and Karin Mamma Andersson to Glenn Ligon and Urs Fischer.

Long term, YCEI will support research and outreach, international collaboration, partnerships with business and industry, and green design efforts that can be implemented and tested within Yale and the surrounding region.

With all of our campus engagement efforts in mind, we were excited to strike up a collaboration with the International Sustainable Campus Network, who recently shared exemplary campus sustainability case studies provided by 25 of the world's leading universities at the World Economic Forum.

-- Both countries will redouble efforts, in collaboration with international experts, to develop alternative fishing gear to gillnets that does not result in the entanglement of vaquita and establish «vaquita - safe» fisheries;

Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science, said: «This new innovation centre will bring together great minds from a variety of disciplines to lead the international effort to tackle environmental change and demonstrate the value of research collaboration in solving some of the greatest challenges of our time.»

This summary by the chairperson presents the outcome of a joint seminar, co-organized by UNCTAD, in an interdivisional effort and in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Oceans Institute.

Caldeira said that the international collaboration of scientists (including scientists from China and India) undertook this research as part of a broader effort aimed at understanding the effectiveness and unintended consequences of proposed strategies for reducing climate change and its impacts.

In this context, «learning by doing» at pilot - scale facilities (see Figure 3) and through targeted international collaboration is particularly important in the next decade as part of a broader effort to ensure that necessary expertise is grown to facilitate effective global rollout of CCS in the longer term.

On 28 September 2016, the U.S. Administration will host the first - ever Arctic Science Ministerial meeting in Washington, D.C., convening science ministers, chief science advisors, indigenous representatives, and other high - level officials from foreign governments around the world in an effort to advance international scientific collaboration in the Arctic.

We hope this strategy has teeth, including continued inter-agency collaboration; intelligence - led enforcement efforts to disrupt trafficking networks; serious demand reduction efforts; plans to «follow the money;» on - the - ground support; and focused international dialogue.