Galilee-SAIL Network

NEW TRI-LATERAL CONFERENCE IN CRETE, GREECE

Place:

Hereklion, Crete, Greece.

Dates:

11th of December to 12th of December, 2003.

Goals of the Conference

To bring together researchers and industrialists from the peripheral communities in Crete, Cyprus and Israel in order to enable them to know better each other and find common fields to collaborate. In order to accomplish this goal, participants need to work together toward a common goal and share their experiences.

The programme:

The goal of creating joint projects between the industries in each region and their partners in the other countries is not to just meet or occasional chat, but rather to facilitate collaborative work of many content areas from multiple perspectives (agriculture/ agro-tourism/industry). Perhaps even more important, the goal is to create a sharing and learning space through ongoing dialogue between the people to achieve a common goal in developing projects of mutual interest.
We want to emphasis that the purpose of the joint activity be for participants to co-develop mutual projects that are potentially beneficial to the agriculture/industries and their communities in their countries. This means the projects should allow participating people in the three communities to learn from one another through their collaboration and participation. More over, the projects must contain or enable new kinds of knowledge, as well as the generation of actual outcome. The conference will focus on agriculture and tourism that are the two main sectors of interest in our Mediterranean region. Researchers from the academic institutes/universities as well as people from the business sector are invited.

Prof. Uri Marchaim
MIGAL, Galilee