March 10, 2021
Recently, the Promoting Gains in Renewable Energy (ProGREEN) – West Africa project assembled multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral teams of experts from Burkina Faso and Senegal to carry out a regional assessment on small-scale renewable energy. The assessment aimed to identify enabling…
March 10, 2021
On 22 February 2021, the Digital Agricultural Services to Improve the Livelihoods of Communities (DigitAL) project held a semi-virtual learning lab with multi-sector participants from Lawra and Nandom districts in Ghana’s Upper West District. Prince Ansah led the in-person portion…
March 10, 2021
START will convene a second virtual science leadership training course in the last half of March. This leadership course is designed for the African Academy of Science and Royal Society’s Future Leaders-African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowship program. The leadership course features learning…
START’s newsletters offer the latest on research innovations, science capacity development in Africa and Asia, and opportunities in sustainability science from START and partners.
March 03, 2021
Future Earth (FE) South Asia, in collaboration with Divecha Centre for Climate Change (DCCC), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore & FE National Committee-India will be hosting a Webinar Series entitled “Best Practices: Deliberating On A Way Forward” on March…
February 22, 2021
START and the Mediterranean Regional Information Network (MedRIN) of the Global Observations of Forest Cover and Land-use Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program invite Earth Observation scientists interested in learning more MedRIN to join us for the MedRIN 2021 Annual Event virtual meeting on…
February 22, 2021
The 10th Meeting of the CEOS Working Group on Capacity Development and Data Democracy (WGCapD) Building a Vision for the Next Decade The WGCapD invites you to participate in the 10th Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Capacity Building…
January 28, 2021
A Tribute to Isabelle Niang Diop, who made a lasting contribution to climate change science in Africa, and to the efforts of the IPCC and START: “Isabelle was a stalwart member of the African climate science community who made a…
January 12, 2021
The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group for Capacity Building and Data Democracy (WGCapD) is conducting an online survey to better understand the efforts to strengthen capacity to use Earth observations for research, decisions, and actions by our…
December 08, 2020
ProGREEN Phase II is Coming ProGREEN country teams submitted their country reports after several months of hard work involving outreach activities, team meetings, literature review, and field survey data collection with renewable energy project managers and end users of decentralized…
December 08, 2020
By Dr. Mzime Ndebele-Murisa, Program Specialist, START International This year I had the opportunity to represent START by being a part of two ICLEI Africa’s virtual events in October. START is an organization with a remote staff spread out across…