5th Seminars of Advanced Studies on Molecular Design and Bioinformatics, Havana, Cuba, February 2 - 6, 2004. The support is to provide a limited amount of fellowships for Latin-American attendants to cover their basic living expenses in Havana, to grant the infrastructure for practical sessions with personal computers, and to cover organizational expenses. This meeting is covering: a) "in silico" modelling of biomolecules and their environment; b) drug design; c) artificial intelligence for data mining for bioinformatics, among other related aspects, like the theoretical and software tools.

"PLANNED ACTIVITIESTeaching activities1.""The History of the European Idea"", 32 hours, Seminar 1st Cycle (Bachelor), Prof. Dr. Danay Ramos Ruiz, Staff member. 2nd. and 3rd. years.2.""Economic, Political and Juridical History of European Integration"", 40 hours, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Perera, Chairholder, Area: History. 1st, 2nd and 3rd years.3.""Integration in Europe: Background, evolution and perspectives"", 40 hours, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Perera, Chairholder, Area: History. 1st, 2nd and 3rd years.4.""Contemporary History of Europe III"", 48 hours, Prof. Dr. Evelio Díaz Lezcano and Prof. Aylín Vega Díaz, Staff members, 38 students, Area: History. 1st, 2nd and 3rd years.5.""Contemporary History of Europe II"", 24 out of 48 total hours, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Perera, Chairholder, Area: History. 1st, 2nd and 3rd years.6.""Geopolitics of the European Union"", 40 hours, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Perera, Chairholder, Areas: History, Economics, Tourism, Geography, Journalism.7.""The European Union: paradigm or reference"", 40 hours, Post-graduate, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Perera, Chairholder. 2nd. and 3rd. years.8.""The European Union as a global actor: Its Role in International Relations"", 40 hours, Post-graduate, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Perera, Chairholder. 2nd. year.9.""Relations Between the European Union and Latin America"", 40 hours, Post-graduate, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Perera, Chairholder, 1st and 3rd. years.Research activitiesDeliverable: ""La Unión Europea: antecedentes, evolución y perspectivas (""The European Union: background, evolution and perspectives""). December 2015""The state of play of EU studies in Cuba"", MCs. Dagoberto Rodríguez Abrahantes, Staff member.PhD Thesis: ""Historical Evolution of EU Policy Towards Cuba in the Context of Its Common Foreign and Security Policy (1988-2013)"". MCs. Eduardo Perera Gómez, Chairholder.Debate activitiesConference on European Studies, annual"

The success and failure of initiatives tackling the infrastructural gap in most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are closely related to trends across a region where poverty affects one in every three households and informality is the norm for 57 per cent of the working population (UN-Habitat 2016, 55). Informality itself constitutes a challenge as seen in the reluctance of authorities to invest in areas which, by virtue of not being recognised as legal, fall into a void which neither attracts public investment nor does it encourage entrepreneurs or cooperatives to seek localised relevant solutions. The contrast between Colombia and Cuba provides a unique opportunity to understand the additional challenges that areas in transition - to peace, in the former, and to a new constitution, in the latter - pose to informality and will contribute to developing the kinds of approaches through which these challenges can be addressed more effectively. Building on well-developed partnerships and the learning of several RCUK-funded projects, GREAT will generate real change in two informal off-grid settlements in Cali (Colombia) and Havana (Cuba). Focusing on transport and waste-management community-led projects, the project will contribute to 'gridding' equitable urban futures through a series of three thematic PublicLabs on urban policy, mobility, and waste innovation. These will combine several in-site activities, participatory workshops, seed-funded projects, capacity training, and work with local policy and planning authorities as well as charitable organisations. Joining the expertise of environmental scientists, transport and geomatics engineers, designers, urban planners, entrepreneurs and sociologists, the project will address key SDGs (5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 16), by embedding the voice of residents of these settlements into ongoing initiatives such as the Territories of Inclusion and Opportunities, an initiative of the Cali Mayor's Office, and the vision of transport in Havana in 2035, approved in 2003, and led by the Dirección General de Transporte Provincial La Habana (General Directorate of Transport Havana). Both institutions are project partners. In doing so, we seek to answer two main questions: In what ways does being on- and off-grid provide an opportunity to rethink the relationship between people and urban infrastructure in areas of transition? To what extent do current off-grid policies and initiatives in Cali and Havana contribute to the disenfranchisement or empowerment of residents in informal settlements? If funded, the project will transform our understanding of the relationship between urban infrastructure and the dynamics of growth and change of informal settlements in areas of transition and provide unique learning points to help address important barriers residents of informal settlements face to improve their livelihoods, in Colombia and Cuba, and across Latin America and the Caribbean.

"This Project aims to offer the tools for creating a Contemporary Art educational network in the region Yucatán-Cuba. It also aspires to help to shape two specific and parallel degrees (in Mérida an La Habana), or ideally an International Double Degree, on Contemporary Art and Cultures Management that will be taught in parallel in Mexico and Cuba using the new tools that of e-teaching and e-learning.We propose the development of a work process between American and European universities, with the support of independent professionals, experts from the museums, cultural management field, and civil society groups. We assume, as a starting point, the concept of ""multilateral construction"", for the joint design of two specialized study plans, one for the UADY University of Merida and the other for the ISA University of Havana, with the intention that they can be merged into one."

EUBBC-Digital will create a completely new way of educational collaboration between 8 universities in Bolivia, Brazil and Cuba, with the support of 7 universities & 3 SMEs in Europe. The partners will prove that it is possible to, in the digital environment of today, create a set of “global but local” “Dilpomado programs” of interest to the Latin American partner universities through re-using and sharing a number of available digital learning units, adapting these towards the local environments for the respective regions and by creating new units for global use. It will be proven that re-use of such learning units will allow for efficient creation of local degree-awarding programs, in which the teacher-collaboration will become extremely powerful and efficient. It will furthermore be proven that such a system will allow universities in less advanced economic regions to leap-frog a significant number of barriers and collaborate on more equal, but less broad, terms with highly reputed global HEIs.The project emphasizes several new aspects: • Sharing/re-using high-quality educational units from various sources allows the partners to create new, modern courses without having all the competences and human resources within the whole program area• This “share-economy” allows a “global but local” perspective in which the degree-awarding HEIs in emerging economies combine expertise from international and local specialists, offering courses and programs based upon the local community/citizens needs• Sharing and combining expertise from international and local specialists increases the quality of the educational material• It gives learners the freedom to learn from a broad perspective of international teachersEUBBC-Digital builds, through participation of academic & administrative staff, capacity towards detailed learning units as well as new types of degree-awarding academic programs created through enhanced international collaboration with globally developed OERs