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CREATING - Cooperative Research on East African Territorial Integration within Globalization

CREATING (Cooperative Research on East African Territorial Integration within Globalization) is a collaborative project that aims at creating, developing and strengthening a social sciences and humanities research network bringing together European and east African scholars and institutions.

The project seeks to improve research capacity and develop collaboration amongst researchers in Europe and East Africa, and by doing so to contribute to the larger objective of regional integration. The project will enhance integration in the research community in both Europe and East Africa through bringing researchers together in a series of training activities.

These activities will focus on of two kind of transborder environment: mountains and Lake Tanganyika. The project is organized around four themes, all of which relate to human use and management of these cross border resources: resource management and livelihood sustainability, human dimensions of environmental (including climatic) change, mobility and identities, urban-rural linkages and development.

This project is coordinated by Bernard Charlery de la Masselière, Professor of Geography at the Toulouse II University. It brings together nine major partners in Europe and eastern Africa. For more information, visit: http://www.creating7.net/