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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Shared on behalf of
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:blue">Dr. Jean Cossi GANGLO,
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:fuchsia">Professor of Forest Sciences and Plant sociology</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">English version is below </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">----------------------Version française----------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Chers tous,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Le programme master en biodiversité informatique a ouvert ses portes à la Faculté des Sciences
Agronomiques de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Bénin, au mois d’octobre 2017. Il est à sa troisième promotion pour compter de la prochaine année académique.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Il est régional dans la mesure où il reçoit les étudiants de plusieurs nationalités et, des enseignants nationaux et internationaux (notamment des Etats-Unis et
de l’Europe) viennent enseigner dans le programme.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">L’objectif de ce master régional est de former des spécialistes d’une nouvelle génération en
biodiversité, capables d’intégrer les menaces qui pèsent sur la biodiversité aux problématiques de recherche pour en déduire des résultats pertinents pour informer les prises de décisions sur la biodiversité dans le contexte des changements climatiques et
globaux.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Voici le lien vers la section de l’émission « ma part de vérité » qui clarifie le programme master
en biodiversité informatique (</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/4ajSBF1Jdyk" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="color:#1155CC">https://youtu.be/4ajSBF1Jdyk</span></a></span><u><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">)</span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Je vous invite à vous y inscrire ou à y inscrire massivement vos collaborateurs afin de relever
les défis de mobilisation et d’utilisation des données de la biodiversité à des fins de prises de décisions.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Les dossiers de candidature sont déjà en cours depuis le 1<sup>er</sup> juin et la clôture est
prévue pour le 30 Juin 2019.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Le programme est enseigné en français et en anglais.
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Je vous prie d’en assurer une très large diffusion</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> Dear All,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The master program in Biodiversity informatics has opened its doors at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, in October 2017. It is at its third student batch from next academic year.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">It is regional in that it receives students of several nationalities and national and international teachers
(especially from the United States and Europe) come to teach in the program.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The objective of this Regional Master is to train specialists of a new generation in biodiversity, able
to integrate threats to biodiversity to research issues to deduce relevant results to inform decision-making on biodiversity in the context of climate and global change.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Here is the link to the section of the communication and outreach on TV that clarified the master program
(<a href="https://youtu.be/4ajSBF1Jdyk"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://youtu.be/4ajSBF1Jdyk</span></a>) (it is in French)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">I invite you to join or massively enroll your staff in the program in order to meet the challenges of mobilizing
and using biodiversity data for decision-making.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Applications are already in progress since the 1<sup>st</sup> June and we are closing on 30<sup>th</sup>
June 2019.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">The program is taught in French and English.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:fuchsia">Professor of Forest Sciences and Plant sociology</span></b><br>
<b><span style="color:blue">Director of the Laboratory of Forest Sciences (</span><span style="color:fuchsia"><a href="https://lsf-uac.org" target="_blank">https://lsf-uac.org</a></span><span style="color:blue">)</span></b><br>
<b><span style="color:fuchsia">Coordinator of the Master Program in Biodiversity Informatics</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:blue">Node Manager of GBIF in Benin (</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:fuchsia"><a href="http://www.gbifbenin.org" target="_blank">www.gbifbenin.org</a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:blue">)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><br>
<b>BP 1493 Calavi, Benin</b><br>
<b><span style="color:fuchsia">E-mail</span></b>: <a href="mailto:ganglocj@gmail.com" target="_blank">
<b>ganglocj@gmail.com</b></a><br>
<b><span style="color:blue">Tel</span></b>: <b>00229 66 36 37 70 / 00229 94 57 89 15</b><br>
<b><span style="color:fuchsia">Skype</span></b>: <b>ganglocossi</b><br>
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