The Swedish International Development Agency’s (SIDA) International Training Programme (ITP) is organizing the training on ‘Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights.’
Duration
- Part 1: September 23 – October 11, 2013
- Part 2: Project work in participants home country
- Part 3: March 17 – March 21, 2014
Objectives
- to assist participants to understand the background and the implications of the recent developments related to IPRs and exchange (access and benefit sharing/ABS) of genetic resources and related information
- to enable participants to find, use and draw conclusions from sources of information and expertise world-wide, related to IPRs and exchange of genetic resources
- to enhance participants’ managerial efficiency to handle, address and deal with genetic resources and intellectual property rights issues. This will be done with a view on how to facilitate participants’ understanding on how to develop appropriate IPR instruments for beneficial partnerships between various actors in regional or international settings
- to improve participants’ ability to catalyse the development of intellectual property rights policies and corresponding implementation frameworks on genetic resources at the national and institutional level
Target Group
The Programme is directed to individuals at senior commanding level from the government sector and from national R&D institutions in charge of managing and defining regulatory/policy IPR and ABS frameworks on genetic resources and related information.
Closing date for applications: May 30, 2013
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