Vi members connect with UNCTAD experts for WIR Russian launch
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In a video conference held December 10, UNCTAD presented its World Investment Report 2007 to two Russian Vi member universities actively engaged in trade and investment training and research - the State University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, and St. Petersburg State University.
In addition to masters students and staff from the two universities, the videoconference gathered a varied audience that included government representatives (Ministry of Economic Development and Trade in Moscow, and Geneva's Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation), the press (two daily newspapers in Moscow and a TV channel in St. Petersburg) and the Director of the British Council office in St. Petersburg, whose facilities hosted the event.
The videoconference was moderated by Tatiana Isachenko, Vi coordinator at HSE, Olga Trofimenko from St. Petersburg State University, and Vlasta Macku, Chief of the Virtual Institute.
EAFIT University's Vi member coordinator, Sascha Fuerst, lent his expertise on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to UNCTAD and the University of Fribourg during his stay in Geneva October 17-19.
Adérito Notico, of Vi core member Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, conducted research on agricultural exports during his stay at UNCTAD from October 7 to November 16.
Makerere University Business School (MUBS), a business and management education and training institution in Kampala, today became the 22nd core university member of the Vi network.
The workshop on the teaching and research of trade and poverty held in Tanzania last week led 20 African academics through the entire research process: from the understanding of conceptual issues in the area of trade and poverty, through the formulation of research questions, and the identification of appropriate methodology and data to address them, to the communication of research findings to policymakers.
