From 3 to 6 April 2017, CEBioS organised a GTI uptake meeting on the collaboration between entomologists from the RBINS and the Vietnam National Museum of Nature (VNMN) in Vietnam.
There is a long lasting collaboration between the RBINS and the Vietnam National Museum of Nature (VNMN). This collaboration was initiated in 2007 thanks to funding from the Belgian Ministry of Cooperation (DGD) via the GTI component of the CEBioS programme.
Since scientific research must help decision making in the field of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use (e.g. CBD Aichi target 19), results may be shared with the national and regional competent authorities of Vietnam in strong ownership. To this aim, we organised a GTI uptake ’meeting in Vietnam from 3 to 6 April 2017.
The meeting had 3 components:
For the last 2 days, a total of 35 participants took part in the uptake meeting in Cuc Phuong National Park:
On Friday 7 April, Mr Geert Vansintjan, from the Belgian Embassy in Hanoi, who could unfortunately not participate in Cuc Phuong's meeting, got a full description of the meeting by Luc Janssens de Bisthoven and M-L Susini Ondafe. This description included a debriefing on the achievements of RBINS entomologists in Vietnam thanks to CEBioS financial support, and on the policy brief jointly prepared during the week with other European entomologists.