Thailand

  1. Project Name: Follow-up seminar on Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights – Training Programme for participants from developing countries
Country: Thailand
Name of Client: Sida
Period: January 2007
Value of project (in millions US$): 1.2
Name of lead company: Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics/VBSG at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna, Sweden
Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Key Experts: Carl-Gustaf Thornström, Programme Director
                    Ivar Virgin– Supervision of the Programme
                    Bengt Uppström, Programme Administrator
                    Marie Hardfors, Programme Administrator
Brief Description of Project:
To assist participants to understand the background and the implications of the recent developments related to IPRs and exchange of genetic resources
• To enable participants to find, use and draw conclusions from sources of information and expertise world-wide, related to IPRs and exchange of genetic resources
• To enhance participants’ managerial efficiency to handle, address and deal with genetic resources and intellectual property rights issues
• To improve participants’ ability to catalyse the development of intellectual property rights policies and corresponding implementation frameworks on genetic resources at the national and institutional level
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  2. Project Name: Follow-up seminar on Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights – Training Programme for participants from developing countries
Country: Thailand
Name of Client: Sida
Period: November 2008
Value of project (in millions US$): 1.2
Name of lead company: Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics/VBSG at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna, Sweden
Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Key Experts: Carl-Gustaf Thornström, Programme Director
                    Ivar Virgin– Supervision of the Programme
                    Per Andersson, Programme Administrator
                    Marie Hardfors, Programme Administrator
Brief Description of Project:
To assist participants to understand the background and the implications of the recent developments related to IPRs and exchange of genetic resources
• 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
• 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