The kick-off meeting of the EU project SEATIDE, coordinated by the EFEO and funded under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme (SEATIDE - Integration in Southeast Asia: Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion) will be held at the Chiang Mai EFEO Centre and at Chiang Mai University (CMU) on 1-2 February 2013. The meeting will bring together the European and Southeast Asian project partners with a view to finalize the calendar of research activities to be carried out during the three years of the project, and to organize the modalities of result dissemination.
An official SEATIDE launch ceremony will take place on the morning of Friday 1st February, to present the project's research objectives and introduce the project partners to EU and ASEAN diplomats and local journalists invited for this occasion.