5th May 2008: 4th FEMIP – TUNISIA Conference. Tunisia, “Microfinance in the Mediterranean: What is its impact?”
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Sanabel, the network of microfinance institutions in Arabic countries, come together to organise the 4th FEMIP conference.
The FEMIP Conference will take place the 5th May 2008 and will precede the 5th Annual Sanabel Conference which will take place from 6th to 8th May 2008. Both events will take place at the Hotel Barcelo in Gammarth, in the suburbs of Tunisia. This conference will reunite almost 300 high level participants coming from 37 partner Euromediterranean countries: political decision makers, microfinance institution and civil society organisation representatives, researchers and academic experts; representatives from the private and banking sectors; they will share their points of view and experiences with first plan orators on the following subjects:
· Methods and indicators allowing to measure the impact of microfinance,
· The professionnalisation of micro finance,
· The link between microfinance and migrant fund transfers,
· The growing implication of the private sector.
Contact: Mrs Michèle SCHMITT, EIB Coordinator: +352 4379 84206 or m.schmitt@eib.org

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Monday 5th May 2008: Richard Stallman conference at the Polytech’Nice-Sophia school (Templiers site) in Sophia Antipolis.
Richard M Stallman is a programmer as well as a free software activist and advocate. He is at the origin of the GNU project and for the GNU general public license also known under the acronym GPL. Since the mid 90s, he has dedicated a lot of his time in promoting free software to a wide public throughout the world. In recent years, he has launched a campaign against software patents and digital rights management (DRM). This conference is open to all interested persons. Contact Roger Marlin : marlin@polytech.unice.fr / 33 (0)4 92 96 51 56

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Friday 16th May 2008: Round of scientific conferences with members of the Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Technologies France. Conference on the theme of “Life and death of the dinosaurs” to be given by Philippe Taquet, palaeontologist and dinosaur specialist. 6pm at Sophia Antipolis Foundation, place Sophie Laffitte.
Further Information: presse@sophia-antipolis.org

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Monday 19th May 2008: Round of scientific conferences with members of the Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Technologies of France. Conference on the theme “Life and Death of Dinosaurs” by Philippe Taquet, Palaeontologist and Dinosaur Expert from the Academy of Sciences. 6pm at Sophia Antipolis Foundation – Place Sophie Laffitte.
Further information: ovigny@sophia-antipolis.org

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Thursday 22nd May 2008: DGA-SSI Technological Forum “Information Systems Security” from 9am to 6pm in Paris. Further Information.

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Friday 23rd May 2008: Sophia Poetry Evening
Green light, evening “Paris of dreams… streets… and songs…” evening organised by Gérard Madeleine. At 7:30pm – Bérény Room, place Sophie Laffitte in Sophia Antipolis.

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