CLACSO-CROP Capacitation workshop

Capacitation workshop for young reseachers in Latin America and the Caribbean, part of the CLACSO-CROP Young Fellows programme.

1-5 March 2010 / Panama

The CLACSO-CROP programme and the Centre for Latin American Studies (CELA) in Panama are co-organizing a workshop for young professionals in the social sciences of Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The aim of the course is to foster capacitation in poverty studies.

From 58 applicants, 18 were selected by the academic committee to participate. These will work out a research project in the following months, using the research tools developed during the workshop.

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