The European Mathematical Society

Developing Countries

1. EMS-CDC should assist DCs wherever and whenever possible. [For practical reasons, CDC's main activities during the next few years will probably focus on African and Asian DCs.]
2. EMS-CDC will assist DCs at the following levels:
   • Mathematics curriculum development for schools and for universities.
   • Cooperation with local staff in conducting M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs; holding special courses in various areas of mathematics in which there is no local expertise.
   • Helping to build up libraries through donations from colleagues in developed countries; mobilise funds to buy books for postgraduate studies and research purposes; supply mathematical literature upon request by institutions and/or individual researchers in DCs; negotiate with publishers on special book rates for DCs.
   • Helping to build up regional centres and networks of excellence: these are centres directly or semi-attached to universities, and which provide expertise in areas and on levels in which regional universities are in need.
   • Provide information about where students from DCs (who already have an M.Sc.) can do their Ph.D., and what possibilities for Ph.D. grants exist. At the same time, in order to avoid a brain drain, as much as possible, CDC will support efforts to build up Ph.D. programmes in DCs according to international standards (regional centres of excellence could serve this purpose).
   • Mobilise funds for junior and senior researchers to attend conferences in developed countries, and also help (both on an academic and financial level) organising conferences in DCs.

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