This article illustrates potential ways to take account of the use of languages in international conferences and in transnational cooperation, and may be fruitful for readers delving into efforts to promote global cooperation. It communicates research notes and documents from CAAST-Net’s stakeholders’ conference, entitled “Africa-Europe Cooperation in Science and Technology: Status and Way Forward”, on the 10th to 11th November 2009. The conference was held in Mombasa, Kenya.
"CAAST-Net is a joint bi-regional project whose goal is to increase the quality and quantity of cooperation in science and technology between Europe and Africa, targeting areas of mutual interest and benefit through greater use of instruments under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)..." FP7 is an European Union instrument. The CAAST-Net Bulletin, published by Research Africa, reports from the Africa-Europe S&T cooperation landscape.