Border Solutions Alliance
Southwest Binational Workshop: El Paso, TX
About the Event:
The Border Solutions Alliance merges leading researchers and agencies from the USA and Mexico in cyber, food, energy, climate and border safety. The Southwest Binational Workshop (funded in part by the National Science Foundation) seeks emerging binational research priorities and to identify prominent challenges affecting border states. The Alliance wants to develop smart-technology and applied science solutions through the structuring of collaborative proposals and further a sustained network of stakeholders dedicated to the wellbeing, advancement and resilience of US-Mexico border communities.
Workshop Organizing Themes:
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Advanced Manufacturing and Digital Services Cybersecurity, industrial internet of things, manufacturing technologies, workforce development, and trade policy |
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Electrical Grid & Urban Resilience Green infrastructure, food-water-energy systems, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and environmental justice |
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Intelligent Mobility Systems Integration of new technologies into cross-border inspection, mobility, and supply chain facilities |
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Disaster Management and Resilience Floods, fires and earthquakes - Integrated emergency management, infrastructure challenges, extreme mobility, and public health |
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Healthcare Cross-border health care economics, linguistic and cultural competency in health care provision, immigrant/migrant access to healthcare, and HIV and related infections, such as TB, STDs and viral hepatitis in at-risk populations |
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Water and Sewage Management (In Las Cruces) - Water-shortage sharing, sewage, groundwater assessment, ecological flows, and water reuse |
Workshop Series Format:
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San Diego & Tijuana |
Binational academics; Federal agency officials; Policymakers | June 5-7, 2019 | LEARN MORE |
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El Paso- Juarez
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Binational academics; Stakeholders; Industry; Federal agency officials; Policymakers | June 10-12, 2019 | LEARN MORE |
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Washington D.C. |
U.S. Congressional staff; Binational Policymakers; Mayors of selected trans-border cities | Fall 2019 | LEARN MORE |
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