The professors Ginés Viscor and Elena Cano, coordinators of Ibero-American CYTED networks
The professor Ginés Viscor, from the Department of Physiology at the Faculty of Biology, was appointed coordinator of the Ibero-American Network for High Altitute Medicine and Physiology for the 2013-2016 period, within the last announcement of the Ibero-American Programme for Science, Technology and Development (CYTED). The new network, which aims at establishing a regular education programme in high altitude medicine and physiology, will bring together more than one hundred experts from fifteen research groups of Ibero-American universities and research centres. The objective is to create a group of researchers and teaching staff to foster the progress made in high altitude medicine and physiology, and the education of experts; in addition, it aims at promoting technology transfer and the participation of experts from the academic and private sector. Its work will be focused on two main topics: the chronic mountain sickness and the chronic intermittent exposure to high altitude work.
The professor Ginés Viscor, from the Department of Physiology at the Faculty of Biology, was appointed coordinator of the Ibero-American Network for High Altitute Medicine and Physiology for the 2013-2016 period, within the last announcement of the Ibero-American Programme for Science, Technology and Development (CYTED). The new network, which aims at establishing a regular education programme in high altitude medicine and physiology, will bring together more than one hundred experts from fifteen research groups of Ibero-American universities and research centres. The objective is to create a group of researchers and teaching staff to foster the progress made in high altitude medicine and physiology, and the education of experts; in addition, it aims at promoting technology transfer and the participation of experts from the academic and private sector. Its work will be focused on two main topics: the chronic mountain sickness and the chronic intermittent exposure to high altitude work.
In the previous CYTED announcement, the professor Elena Cano, from the Department of Didactics and Educational Organization of the Faculty of Education, was appointed coordinator of the Network to Develop a Technological Platform to Assist Evaluation in Education (2012-2014). The network, composed by seven research groups, aims at promoting the development and the production of free software which can be apply in evaluation as a way to improve teaching practices. The objective of this network is to get interesting ICT applications related to e-education by means of Web 2.0.
Other UB researchers are or were some years ago members of some networks created within CYTED, for example: the professor Miquel Llobera, from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Ibero-American Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Network: developing new prediction markers, 2012-2014); Mercè Berlangua, from the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology in Health (Industrial Processes Optimizing to Obtain Biomass Plastic and Other Products, 2012-2013); Antoni Camins, from the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic Chemistry (Ibero-American Neurosciences Research Network, 2010-2012) and Alejandra Montané, from the Department of Didactics and Educational Organization (Ibero-American Educational Policies Research Network, 2007-2010).