<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div>[Forwarding from Paola De Castro, NECOBELAC Project Coordinator. This is the English-language edition of the Bogotą Declaration, adopted on November 11, 2010, by the institutional partners in Project NECOBELAC and the participants in a NECOBELAC training course (Bogotą, November 9-11, 2010). For an image scan of the original, with the text in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, as well as English, and the list of original signatories, see </div>
<div><a href="http://www.necobelac.eu/documents/Bogota%20Declaration_4_Languages.pdf">http://www.necobelac.eu/documents/Bogota%20Declaration_4_Languages.pdf</a> . --Peter Suber.]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
BOGOTĮ DECLARATION</div>
<div><br></div><div>Within the international initiatives promoting the development of global knowledge, the NECOBELAC project fosters cooperation between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean countries to improve the dissemination of scientific information in public health as well as the quality of life and population development. This project acts through the organization and realization of training courses for trainers to improve the production and quality of scientific documents and increase the visibility and availability of research results by supporting open access publishing initiatives.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>The different experiences of the European and Latin American project partners form the basis for taking action towards active learning to develop regional, national and local initiatives and policies in favour of Open Access.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>On November 9-11, 2010, one of the NECOBELAC international training courses for trainers [Curso internacional de formación de capacitadores NECOBELAC] took place in Bogotį (Colombia). The project partners representing European (Italy, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom) and Latin American (Brazil and Colombia) institutions, together with the participants on the NECOBELAC training course representing academic and public health institutions in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, in accordance with the NECOBELAC project objectives, commit themselves to:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Promote the drawing up and enforcement of public policies in favour of the unlimited availability of scientific output.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Promote and support the quality of scientific writing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3 Promote Open Access to scientific output in their Nations.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Participants on the NECOBELAC training courses commit themselves to replicating the training experience in the institutions of their countries. NECOBELAC project partners commit themselves to providing advice and tools to achieve the above mentioned objectives.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div><div>To effectively carry out this project of activity and help transform the models of disseminating knowledge and information in public health, the support and cooperation of the European and Latin American and Caribbean governments and institutions are required, to act in favour of the global development of knowledge.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Bogotą, November 11, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>The NECOBELAC Bogotį Declaration is approved by all partners of the European project NECOBELAC and signed by the participants of the NECOBELAC training course for trainers in Bogotį (November 9-11, 2010) coming from instituions of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru and by the NECOBELAC partners attending this Course. Participants on the previous NECOBELAC training courses held in Sćo Paulo (Brasil, April 13-15, 2010) and in Rome (Italy, October 18-20, 2010) can adhere to this Declaration.</div>
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