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1st EPS Conference: Physics for Development
Location:
Palais des Académies, Brussels, Belgium
Duration:
11 October 2012 - 12 October 2012 This new conference in this domain has been established:
- to foster collective ambition for solidarity, physics is actually well behind other scientific communities
- counterbalancing the lack of funding for development due to bad economics in Europe environment
- as state of the art of international cooperation : SESAME , DESERTEC, UNESCO, ICTP, IUPAP, EU, CERN, African PHysical Society, African Laser Center
- recycling recent technological breakthroughs for use in development
- publicizing creative ideas like component mining
- showing the impact of science for daily life
- to offer new ways to think about scientific instrumentation : generic instruments
- creating an African Instrumentation Award etc.
