1st YES Sudan National Chapter Forum

1^st YES Sudan Chapter Forum will be held in Khartoum, between 23 and 24 May 2015 under the theme "Pathway, Practice and Platform into Global Earth Science Integration's".

 

The event will be organized by the Sudan YES National Chapter in cooperation with Nile Cat Canter, GeoPetra Group, Nile Geosciences Center and Al Neelain University.

YES Sudan forum provides excellent opportunities for sharing ideas, experiences and best practices in different areas of geosciences. It is an exciting, stimulating and rewarding annual event for young geoscientist’s professionals in all sectors.

Forum Sub-Themes

Proposals for presentations and workshops are invited on any of the following areas:

1. Professional Pathways.

2. Earth Sciences Education and Policy for Sustainable Development.

3. Success of Integrated Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry approaches.

4. Recounting the journey – Action research.

5. Educating for career pathways in Geoethics and Geoculture.

6. Student support platforms.

7. Gender Mainstreaming in Geosciences.

8. Petroleum Systems and Exploration.

9. GIS and Remote Sensing.

10. Groundwater resources and Sustainable Management.

11. Mining industry for Sustainable Development in Sudan.

12. Small Scale Mining:  Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities towards Sustainable Use.

13. Impacts of Climate changes and adaptability.

14. Human-induced environmental hazards and disasters.

15. Pathways linking theory and practice.

 

Forum Highlights

• Plenary and featured speakers.
• Certified Professional Development short courses.
• Opening ceremony on Saturday 23^rd May, 2015.
• About 20 presentations and workshops.
• Refreshments and lunches for registered participants.
•  Conference proceedings for presenters.

 

Sending a Proposal Form

General criteria for accepting proposals:

A proposal will only be accepted if it

> Is directly relevant to the forum theme.

    > Has not been presented at any other regional conferences.

    > Has a clear focus and communicates original ideas. 

    > Reports on a recently completed research project or a significant phase of the research; has practical use for the audience; or if theoretical, must include useful applications.

   > Is linguistically clear and accurate.

   > Reflects what the speaker is going to talk about.

   > Is submitted before the deadline.

Please note that:

We only process proposals received through our email: yesnetwork.sudan@gmail.com.

Other ways of submission will not be considered.

Forum Registration Information and Deadlines

Registration procedure

To register for the forum please do the following:

1-      Fill in the registration form here and send it to forum coordinator (yesregistersudan@gmail.com).

2-      Please make sure you provide us with the correct information and accurate spelling. We will use the spelling you provide to print your certificate and name badge.

3-   You will receive confirmation email containing the information you sent to us. If you don’t receive the email, Please call us.

 

Forum registration fees:

 

Category	Fees in SDG
Participant	500
Presenter	300
Student	100
Certified Courses	1,000

We advise participants to register early as we have a targeted number of seats for registration. Registration will close once the target number has been reached.

Please note that there is No On-Site Registration for the forum, all payments should be made in cash to Register Coordinator  Mr. Abdulrhman Fadul (yesregistersudan@gmail.com). Payments can be made in SDG only.

 

 To download YES registration form click here

Important dates

Please read the following information carefully before completing and sending the registration form.

 

Task	Important dates
Proposal submission	Deadline: Wednesday, April 15th 2015
Presenter registration	Sunday, January 25th – Thursday, April 9th, 2015
Participants registration	Sunday, January 25th, 2014 – Thursday, May 14th , 2015

Forum venues

Package collection: all forum operations will be located in Friendship Hall in Al Mogran –Khartoum Please makes sure you have your receipt or receipt number handy.

Help Desk: a team of dedicated volunteers from YES member will be happy to assist you and answer your forum related enquiries. While you are always welcome to visit the forum organizing team in main help desk by the entrance of the building.

Forum Contacts

Please do not hesitate to contact any of the following members of the forum organizing team for any of the matters stated below.

 

Task	Contact Name	Phone	E-mail
Forum chair	Randa Juma Murgan	+249946943178	yesnetwork.sudan@gmail.com aliranda59@yahoo.com
Receiving Proposals	Nasreldin Hamid	+252616519443 +249900400633	yesnetwork.sudan@gmail.com nasrhamed25@yahoo.com
Forum Academic matters	Mahmmoud Faiesl	+249917356768	huta123@hotmail.com
	Mobark Abdelwahab	+249911669827	almagrabi86@yahoo.com
Registration Coordinator	Tasneem El Ebeed	+249121028507	yesregistersudan@gmail.com
	Abdulrhman Fadul	+249912266359
Newsletter & Media	Yaseir Uosef	+249916516049	yasier2009@gmail.com
Publications & Publicity	Mohammed Salah	+249912426883	m7medgeo124@gmail.com
	Abdelrhim Eltijani	+249923331530	abdelrhime@gmail.com
Finance Coordinator	Gafer Malik	+249998887677	gafar.malik@yahoo.com