Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

MASAIE is the Inria EPI partner of GRIMCAPE (LIRIMA). It also has strong collaboration with M2IPE2S (LIRIMA). Two PhD students (Diaby and Diouf) are members of M2IPE2S.

G. Sallet has participated to "Journées du LIRIMA", Rabat, Morocco, September 17th-19th, 2013.

Participation In other International Programs

CAPES-COFECUB

MASAIE is the french correspondent in a cooperation program with Brazil. This project, funded by CAPES-COFECUB, "new methods in epidemiology and early detection of events" has begun in January 2011.

A Brazilian network has been built in 2011, and it is composed of

• FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas ) Rio de Janeiro. Principal investigator: Jair Koiller.

• UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Rio de Janeiro. Principal investigator: Max Oliveira de Souza.

• UNICAMP (Universidade Estadual de Campinas ) Campinas. Principal investigator: Hyun Mo Yang.

• Fondation Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz, Rio). Principal investigator: Claudia Codeço.

• IMPA Rio de Janeiro. Principal investigator: Jorge Zubelli.

PAES-UEMOA

A research project on Bilharzia was deposed November 2, 2012, by the universities of Ouagadougou and Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, in the framework of PAES( projet d'appui à l'enseignement supérieur) of UEMOA (Union Economique et Monétaire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest). MASAIE is an important component of this network. This project has been accepted July, 1, 2012 and funded with 30 000 000 CFA (XOF) ( $\approx$ 45 000 euro).

The Phd thesis of Lena Tendeng and M. Diaby (MASAIE and UGB St Louis) are part of this project.