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The Medias initiative
The MEDIAS-France non-profit organisation aims at encouraging and supporting global and regional change research initiatives connected with sustainable development, in cooperation with national (Eclipse, GICC, IFB, ORE, RTE, Zones-Ateliers,...) and international (IGBP, WCRP, IHDP, Diversitas, FP6,...) programmes. Its original geographic scope covers the Mediterranean basin (MEDI) and subtropical Africa (AS).
MEDIAS-France develops four activity lines, i.e.:
This French governmental non-profit organisation, headquartered in Toulouse (FRANCE), is backed by five governemental bodies (CNES, CNRS, IRD, METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse University) and two private companies ( CLS and SPOT-IMAGE).MEDIAS-France is in charge of coordinating the French contributions to the MEDIAS network, in close collaboration with national laboratories and many other partners in France an abroad.
MEDIAS-France acts as the permanent secretariat to the MEDIAS network and the START Planning Committee for the Mediterranean (MEDCOM). It is as well a partner of ENRICH (European Network for Research In Global CHange), ACMAD (African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development), and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory.
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