1st
YES Sudan Chapter Forum will be held in
Khartoum, between 23 and 24 May 2015 under the theme "Pathway, Practice and Platform into Global Earth Science Integration's".
The event will be organized by the Sudan
YES National Chapter in cooperation with Nile Cat Canter, GeoPetra Group, Nile Geosciences
Center and Al Neelain University.
YES
Sudan forum provides excellent opportunities for sharing ideas, experiences and
best practices in different areas of geosciences. It is an exciting,
stimulating and rewarding annual event for young geoscientist’s professionals
in all sectors.
Forum
Sub-Themes
Proposals for presentations and workshops are invited on any of the
following areas:
1. Professional Pathways.
2. Earth Sciences Education and Policy for Sustainable Development.
3. Success of Integrated Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry approaches.
4. Recounting the journey – Action research.
5. Educating for career pathways in Geoethics and Geoculture.
6. Student support platforms.
7. Gender Mainstreaming in Geosciences.
8. Petroleum Systems and Exploration.
9. GIS and Remote Sensing.
10. Groundwater resources and Sustainable Management.
11. Mining industry for Sustainable Development in Sudan.
12. Small Scale Mining: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities towards Sustainable Use.
13. Impacts of Climate changes and adaptability.
14. Human-induced environmental hazards and disasters.
15. Pathways linking theory and practice.
Forum Highlights
- Plenary and featured speakers.
- Certified Professional Development short courses.
- Opening ceremony on Saturday 23rd May, 2015.
- About 20 presentations and workshops.
- Refreshments and lunches for registered participants.
- Conference proceedings for presenters.
Sending a Proposal Form
General criteria for accepting proposals:
A proposal will only be accepted if it
> Is directly relevant to the forum theme.
> Has not been presented at any other regional conferences.
> Has a clear focus and communicates original ideas.
> Reports on a recently completed research project or a significant phase of the research; has practical use for the audience; or if theoretical, must include useful applications.
> Is linguistically clear and accurate.
> Reflects what the speaker is going to talk about.
> Is submitted before the deadline.
Please
note that:
Other
ways of submission will not be considered.
Forum Registration
Information and Deadlines
Registration procedure
To register for the forum please do the following:
2-
Please
make sure you provide us with the correct information and accurate spelling. We
will use the spelling you provide to print your certificate and name badge.
3- You
will receive confirmation email containing the information you sent to us. If
you don’t receive the email, Please call us.
Forum registration
fees:
Category
|
Fees in SDG
|
Participant
|
500
|
Presenter
|
300
|
Student
|
100
|
Certified Courses
|
1,000
|
We advise participants to register early as we have a targeted
number of seats for registration. Registration will close once the target
number has been reached.
Please note that there is No On-Site Registration for the forum, all
payments should be made in cash to Register Coordinator Mr. Abdulrhman Fadul (yesregistersudan@gmail.com). Payments can be made in SDG
only.
Important
dates
Please
read the following information carefully before completing and sending the
registration form.
Task
|
Important
dates
|
Proposal
submission
|
Deadline:
Wednesday, April 15th 2015
|
Presenter
registration
|
Sunday, January
25th – Thursday, April 9th, 2015
|
Participants registration
|
Sunday, January
25th, 2014 – Thursday, May 14th , 2015
|
Forum venues
Package collection: all forum operations will be located in Friendship Hall in Al
Mogran –Khartoum Please makes sure you have your receipt or receipt number
handy.
Help Desk: a team of dedicated volunteers from YES member will be happy to
assist you and answer your forum related enquiries. While you are always
welcome to visit the forum organizing team in main help desk by the entrance of
the building.
Forum Contacts
Please do not hesitate to contact any of the following members of
the forum organizing team for any of the matters stated below.
Task
|
Contact
Name
|
Phone
|
E-mail
|
Forum
chair
|
Randa
Juma Murgan
|
+249946943178
|
|
Receiving
Proposals
|
Nasreldin
Hamid
|
+252616519443
+249900400633
|
|
Forum
Academic matters
|
Mahmmoud
Faiesl
|
+249917356768
|
|
Mobark
Abdelwahab
|
+249911669827
|
|
Registration
Coordinator
|
Tasneem
El Ebeed
|
+249121028507
|
|
Abdulrhman
Fadul
|
+249912266359
|
Newsletter
& Media
|
Yaseir
Uosef
|
+249916516049
|
|
Publications
& Publicity
|
Mohammed
Salah
|
+249912426883
|
|
Abdelrhim
Eltijani
|
+249923331530
|
abdelrhime@gmail.com
|
Finance
Coordinator
|
Gafer
Malik
|
+249998887677
|
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