<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from NECOBELAC, via the JISC-Repositories list. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>** ** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** **<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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SCHOLARLY OUTPUTS IN HEALTH SCIENCES: PUBLICATION PROCESS AND OPEN ACCESS<br>
First NECOBELAC training course for trainers to foster collaboration between Europe and LAC.<br>
Sao Paolo (Brasil), 13-15 April, 2010<br>
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NECOBELAC is pleased to announce the first of a series of training courses on Open Access, to be held in Sao Paolo in April.<br>
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NECOBELAC is working to support scientific writing and the growth of Open Access to Health Care information, as a collaboration between Europe and Latin American Caribbean countries. As part of this work, NECOBELAC is offering training courses for trainers - designed to introduce developments in the field to trainers who can spread the information through their own courses in their own countries, communities and institutions.<br>
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The first of these three-day courses is being held in Sao Paulo on April 13-15 April, 2010<br>
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Attendance at this three day course is free, with attendees only having to pay their own travel and accomodation costs. There are 30 places on offer, which will be given to the first applicants that contact us. In case of over-subscription, institutions or agencies may be limited to two attendees only.<br>
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The language of the course will be Spanish and Portugese. For this first event, applications are prioritised from trainers from the following countries: Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay, although applicants from other LAC countries can apply. There will be further events to cover all other LAC countries in the future.<br>
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To apply, please contact <a href="mailto:necobelac.saopaulo@bireme.org">necobelac.saopaulo@bireme.org</a><br>
If a phone number is required, this is: 55 11 5576-9872<br>
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** Deadline for application is February 28 - Acceptance will be communicated by March 7 **<br>
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Please state your name, role, institution/agency and confirm that you intend to cascade the course information onwards in support of scientific writing and the growth of Open Access to Health Care information.<br>
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See the Necobelac website for objectives, programme and other details of the course: <a href="http://www.necobelac.eu/en/newsevents.php" target="_blank">http://www.necobelac.eu/en/newsevents.php</a><br>
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Note that the course is designed as the start of a cascade process for trainers - not for academic researchers or end users. Attendants will receive a Certificate allowing them to replicate NECOBELAC training at local level.<br>
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Please feel free to circulate this invitation.<br>
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NECOBELAC is a partnership between Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) from Italy, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) from Spain, the University of Nottingham (CRC) from the UK, BIREME from Brazil, the Instituto de Salud Publica (ISP) from Colombia, and the Universidade do Minho (UMINHO) from Portugal.<br>
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NECOBELAC is funded as an FP7 project by the European Commission.<br>
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