(Business in Cameroon) - The Ngaoundéré University is organising from 30 January until 9 February 2017, in partnership with the Montpellier University and the Development Research Institute (IRD), the sixth edition of the Hydrology and surface Geosciences Field School (Hydraride).

The 2017 edition of this Field School held within a 150-km radius of Yaoundé (Mfoundi catchment basin and surroundings) gathers around thirty participants (teaching staff and students) coming from Cameroon, Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad and France. The data collected will enable the development of hydraulic models to better account for them in development projects.

The “Hydraride” Field School is there to meet clearly identified needs: European students have little field experience in intertropical zone, while their African counterparts sometimes lack technical expertise. This training system gathers students at the masters and PhD levels, researchers and lecturers from African and French universities or research organisations. The goals are at the same time educational and scientific. It is about training the students on observation, measuring, sampling and analysis techniques pertaining to hydrology, hydrogeology, hydraulics, hydro-geochemistry, pedology.

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