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Virtual language and cultural exchanges

Leading the way with virtual language and cultural exchanges

The Asia ConneXions program connects Australian schools with schools in Korea, Japan, China, Indonesia and India over high-speed networks using high definition video conferencing. “The program’s success lies in its ability to provide participants with a very personal and experiential opportunity to learn about the diversity within and between the countries of the Asia region…”

Education
AARNet (Australia) | Asia Pacific | TEIN (Asia Pacific) |
Helping the fight against Ebola

Joining forces with the medical community to combat tropical diseases

Collaborations for Dengue Fever and Chikungunya initiatives are excellent examples of the scalable nature of efforts to build communities. As such, the tools and capabilities are easily adaptable to the plethora of infectious diseases that pose a global challenge.

Health & Medicine
Africa | Asia Pacific | C@ribNET (Caribbean) | Caribbean | CKLN (Caribbean) | Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | IUCC (Israel) | Middle East | SingAREN (Singapore) | TEIN (Asia Pacific) | UbuntuNet (East & Southern Africa) |
Extreme weather

Helping to win the race against severe weather

With extreme weather events increasingly hitting news headlines around the world, accurate and timely forecasts are essential for effective disaster warning and mitigation systems. This, in turn, calls for joint research efforts within the global meteorological community to improve models and tools for predicting severe weather, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, floods, heat waves etc.

Climate Science Disaster Warning
Asia Pacific | CERNET (China) | CSTnet (China) | Europe | GÉANT (Europe) |

Monitoring and forecasting extreme environmental events to save lives

When the Latin American Observatory of Extraordinary Events announced in October 2011 that rainfall was expected to be above average for the South American Northwest and above average for the Southeast of the same region, an early alert for floods was issued for Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, and one of a drought for North-western Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. This is an example of how the information gathered and disseminated by the Observatory, a collaboration involving a number of institutions, helps Latin American nations with risk management for extreme environmental events.

Climate Science Disaster Warning
Latin America | REACCIUN (Venezuela) | RedCLARA (Latin America) |

Removing the barrier of distance with robot-guided virtual museum tours

“Today’s students love technology and integrating technology in education every day helps students stay engaged and prepares them for the future. The Museum Robot program at the National Museum of Australia not only integrates technology and engineering concepts, it also brings the history curriculum alive in a new and exciting way to students all over the country.”

Arts & Culture Education
AARNet (Australia) | Asia Pacific |
tackling childhood diseases

Tackling childhood diseases

The rise in obesity – and particularly child obesity – poses a serious public health challenge. Approximately one in four children in England are now overweight or obese by school entry, rising to a third by the end of primary school. MD-Paedigree is a four-year European Commission funded ICT project to help fight childhood obesity-related cardiovascular and other child diseases.

Health & Medicine
Europe | GÉANT (Europe) |
Mlyims is advancing medical research

Advancing medical research… and the quality of your coffee

Thanks to the Mylims platform, scientists around the world are able to process and manipulate data, interpret results and compare them with spectra obtained by other users and those stored in databases, thus accelerating the understanding of compounds. Mylims has already led to breakthroughs in the diagnosis of illnesses, such as leukaemia, and has become a valuable tool for food chemists to detect fraudulent coffee.

Food Security Health & Medicine
Europe | GÉANT (Europe) | Latin America | RedCLARA (Latin America) |

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