UNCSTD Centers of Excellence

StDEv--Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Review:

"UNCTAD in collaboration with the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), launched in 2005, a project connecting centres of excellence in developing countries. The project is designed to select existing outstanding centres of excellence in developing countries and use them as regional hubs of learning that can pool resources with one another and conduct joint research in areas of importance to developing countries.

Initially, the Network will consist of 10 existing scientific institutions which are willing and able to make their facilities available to scientists and engineers from other developing countries, especially from Africa. Each of these institutions will provide training for scientists and engineers in selected subject areas."