Postgraduate Course in the framework of the Master in International Relations and Management of ASERI - selection outcome.

Postgraduate Course in vegetal genetics and food security - selection outcome

Eucarpia (Maize and Sorghum Section) Conference : "Maize and Sorghum Breeding in the Genomics Era"- selection outcome

Postgraduate Course -Electron and Ion Microscopy and Micromanipulation- selection outcome

Postgraduate course in Internet Information Technologies - selection outcome

Since 2005, the Landau Network-Centro Volta (LNCV) has developed, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in collaboration with the Iraqi National Academy of Science (INAS) and Iraqi universities, the LNCV Cooperation Program with the Iraqi Academic and Research System aimed to enhance the comprehension of the current Iraqi scenario and to implement human capacity building activities for the valorisation and upgrading of Iraqi human, scientific and professional resources.

Stemming from the activities held in the past three years, and thanks to the support of the Italian MFA (General Direction for Development Cooperation), the LNCV is planning a set of new initiatives addressed to Iraqi professors, researchers and PhD candidates.

The program is articulated in five projects, aimed to favour the updating and the valorisation of different professional profiles through intensive postgraduate and formation courses, to be held in Italy. In detail, these courses are:

1. Postgraduate Course for Iraqi economists in the framework of the Master in International Relations and Management of ASERI;
2. Postgraduate Course in vegetal genetics and food security: Maize as a study case;
3. Postgraduate Course “Electron and Ion Microscopy and Micromanipulation: common principles and advanced methods in applied sciences”;
4. Postgraduate Course on “Clinical education & health management for the psycho-physical recovery”;
5. Postgraduate Course in Internet Information Technologies.

North Africa in a Transatlantic Context: Policy Convergence in Turbulent Times?
Villa Olmo, Como, 15 dicembre 2008

International workshop on:
Reconciliation, Reconstruction, Representiation: The Possible Futures of Iraq
21-22 November 2008
Salon d'Honneur, Villa Olmo
Como, Italy

Organized by
Landau Network Centro Volta (LNCV), Como, Italy

Promoted and supported by
General Directorate for Mediterranean and Middle-East (GDMM)
of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Rome, Italy

The international workshop on Reconciliation, Reconstruction, Representation: Shaping the Future of Iraq was organized in order to analyse the multidimensional aspects associated with the stability, the regional security relations and the current trends of the new Iraq and of the Middle-East.

It represented a follow up of the LNCV Workshops that had been held in Como in the previous years since 2005. 

Several members of the Iraqi Parliament and Government, different Iraqi ethno-religious communities as well as Iranian and Western experts took part in the Workshop. Some issues of discussion have been: the stability of the new Iraq and the institution-building phase consequently to the improvement of the security framework; the agreement between Iraqi and US Governments on US troops withdrawal within 2011 and the gradual handover of power to the Iraqi national forces have been issues for discussion; the possible modalities to reach a real reconciliation between the different ethno-religious parts and the role that regional countries and International Community could play to support the country stabilization and normalization process.

Part of the discussion was dedicated to the country economic situation and to the current reconstruction process, taking into account also the importance of oil resources for the country and the problems emerged concerning their management under an administrative and a legal profile.

In the last session the discussion focused on the importance and the role of the US-Iraqi-Iranian relationship in view of the stabilization of the area.

   Il rompicapo Iran: tante incognite, poche soluzioni
di Roberta Ballabio e Lucilla tempesti
pubblicato in Scienza e Società, issue 3 - 2008