A third meeting of the technical monitoring committee for the CERMI Regional Anchor Strengthening Project in the ECOWAS region (CVE/883) was held this morning, at the Center’s facilities, to present the activities carried out in 2019 and to discuss and approve the Annual Work Plan for 2020.

The meeting was chaired by CERMI's Chairman of the Board of Directors (CoB), Luís Teixeira, by Representative for the ECOWAS Director-General for Energy, Lamine Tioune, by Resident Representative of LuxDev in Cabo Verde, François Bary, and by Representative for the European Union Delegation in Cabo Verde, Jose-Roman Lara. The Executive Director of CERMI and the Training Director of the Cabo Verde Center of Competence(3C), Edson Mendes, also participated in the working session, amongst representatives of other entities involved in the project.

CERMI’s CoB took the opportunity to stress the importance of this project for the Center, highlighting the contribution made by CVE/881 to the achievement of the Center’s mission and objectives.

“The main challenge for this institution, as a training and renewable energy center, is internationalization, and this project contributes immensely to that. Currently, CERMI has a good presence in ECOWAS, we have partners in the region, we are well known and we have a network that is really functional", indicated Luís Teixeira to whom, "thanks to CERMI, Cabo Verde is better known today in the 15 countries of the ECOWAS region as well as in Mauritania”.

The main activities carried out in 2019 within the framework of this project were presented during the meeting. The project is implemented by the Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation, LuxDev, and financed by the European Union.

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