The Clearing House Mechanism is established as a tool to promote technical
and scientific cooperation (Article 18.3) under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Belgian Clearing-House is promoting this cooperation by collaborating
with partners within Belgium, abroad and by developing it's partnership role
with developing countries CHM's.
This section of the site will give you information on different aspect of
technical and scientific cooperation that have been regrouped under different
headings:
Contact: Names and addresses of people and institutes that want to
collaborate towards technical and scientific cooperation;
Funding: Announced tenders for research on Belgian, European and
world-wide levels, possible sources;
Partnership: Information on the partnership role that the Belgian
Clearing-House offers to developing countries;
Projects: Biodiversity projects that have published their results, a
special section will be devoted to best practices in the future.