INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

Technical visit to Barcelona Tech and HUVH

Jones Albuquerque, coordinator of DESERT-MAP project, will visit

UPC. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech.

Computational Biology Complex Systems Research Group (https://mosimbio.upc.edu).

from 27 July 2015 to 08 August 2015. The research group maintains projects with the UPC since 2011.This visit is to evaluate the possibility of the integration platform designed to desertification risk analysis to combat epidemics in Africa.

Jones will also visit

Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (HUVH): Tropical and International Health Center and Microbiology Department, both integrated in the International Health Project of the Catalan National Health System (PROSICS–http://barcelonaprosics.wordpress.com/).

in the period of 10 to 14 August 2015, to discuss and evaluate the possibility of integrating DESERT-MAP platform with its monitoring systems of endemic and epidemic in Spain.