FYI: Project-Based Training and Mentoring Program on IP for Women Entrepreneurs from Indigenous Peoples

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Project-Based Training and Mentoring Program on IP for Women Entrepreneurs from Indigenous Peoples

"… The World Intellectual Property Organization is accepting applications from Indigenous women who may be working on a project related to intellectual property (IP). The deadline is August 30.
The “Project-Based Training and Mentoring Program on Intellectual Property for Women Entrepreneurs from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities” is open to up to 20 women entrepreneurs – such as artisans, designers, traditional musicians and dancers, researchers, healers or small-scale farmers – who are planning or have already initiated a project based on traditional knowledge.
You can find more information about the Program and download the application form through this link: https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/women_entrepreneurs/ …"

Program structure

The Program has a practical approach and consists of two phases:

Training phase

The training phase will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from November 11 to 15, 2019. Participants will:

• acquire basic knowledge of the main principles, systems and tools of the IP system as they relate to TK and TCEs;
• share and learn from each other’s experiences and meet potential partners that can provide support with the implementation of their projects;
• further develop and implement TK or TCEs-based projects that have an IP component.

Mentoring phase

The mentoring phase will take place in 2020. During this phase, participants are expected to implement the project they have selected.

Mentors will be assigned to guide the implementation of the IP components of the projects.

Mentoring will principally take place through email and phone.

Requirements

Participation requirements

Participants are strongly encouraged to take the WIPO Primer on IP (DL-001) – a three-hour distance learning course offered free of charge by the WIPO Academy – or the WIPO General Course on IP (DL-101) prior to the training phase.

Language requirements

Candidates should be able to effectively communicate in English, French, Spanish or Russian. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided from and into these languages during the Geneva-based Workshop.

René Fumoleau est décédé / died at the age of 93

René Fumoleau est décédé à l’âge de 93 ans
Rene Fumoleau has died at the age of 93.
René Fumoleau Talents en Nord. – Exposition pour les artistes francophones du TNO entre le 14 et 20 mars 2010 au musée Prince de Gaules .
Vernissage le dimanche 14 mars entre 13:00 et 16 :30 . Cet cérémonie ressemblerait des personnalités qui jouent un rôle important dans le fait francophone.
https://youtu.be/CScVEhEJnf8

Rene Fumoleau par L’Aquilon

“… Ce site est une production en-ligne du journal L’Aquilon, le souffle francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest ..”
https://www.aquilon.nt.ca/fumoleau/

“…His first parish was in Rádeli Kóé/Fort Good Hope, which involved a long boat journey down the Dehcho into a new world.
Through all of the years, his attachment to the Dene peoples deepened. He celebrated the strength of their ancestral wisdom and committed himself to their desire for change.
René published As Long as This Land Shall Last as a contribution to the struggle over land claims; directed two films, I Was Born Here and Dene Nation; he also took thousands of photos, now housed in the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife. The Museum uploaded this slideshow tribute in his memory this morning….”
https://cklbradio.com/2019/08/07/photographer-dene-history-author-and-priest-rene-fumoleau-has-died/

Fumoleau came to the Northwest Territories in 1953, worked closely with the Dene “… Rene Fumoleau, a well-known priest, photographer and storyteller with a long history in the North, has died. […]
He did research on Treaty 8 and Treaty 11 and was known as a social justice advocate for the Dene. […]
Fumoleau had been living with dementia. He passed a few minutes before midnight on Tuesday, according to his close friend Patrick Scott.
It was Fumoleau’s birthday. He had just turned 93.
“He was very lucid on Sunday afternoon and he was very happy,” Scott said. “He smiled, just a beautiful Rene smile: ‘I’m very happy, and I loved my life.'”
Fumoleau was born in France. He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1952 and came to the Northwest Territories in 1953 as an Oblate missionary.
After resigning from the Oblates, he was made a priest in the Diocese of the Mackenzie, working with the Dene in Fort Good Hope and Deline over the next several decades, according to the NWT Archives. …”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/rene-fumoleau-obituary-1.5238116

“…René Fumoleau began creating stories of his experiences in 1988, writing them first in two books of poetry, Here I Sit, and The Secret, and then telling them at events and festivals across the land. His stories can also be heard in a 2014 documentary by Nicolas Paquet Living like the Land (Ceux Comme la Terre). …”
https://www.storytellers-conteurs.ca/en/featured-storytellers/Rene-Fumoleau.html