NECOBELAC-Network of Collaboration Between Europe and Latin America-Caribbean Countries

This project works in the field of public health with the objective of improving scientific writing, promote open access publication models and foster technical and scientific cooperation between Europe and Latin America & Caribbean countries.

NECOBELAC provides training courses for trainers in scientific writing and open access. Course materials and publications are available open access in NECOBELAC website.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, courses were organized in Brazil (2010), Uruguay (2010), Colombia (4 courses in 2010), Cuba (2011), Argentina (2011), Mexico (2011).

NECOBELAC partners are:

• Project coordinator: Instituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
• University of Nottingham (UNOTT), UK
• BIREME/PAHO/WHO, Brazil
• Instituto de Salud Publica (ISP), Colombia
• Universidade do Minho (UMINHO), Portugal

The NECOBELAC project is sponsored by the European Community (7th Framework Programme) for the period 2009-2012.

Contact:

Mail: paola.decastro(at)iss.it

(June 2011)