Bruxelles – Ubora, the research project coordinated by the University of Pisa and funded by the European Union with one million Euros that aims to create a virtual platform between Europe and Africa, where bioengineers the two continents will share expertise and resources, starts from Pisa. On January 16 and 17 the University of Pisa hosted the launch meeting of the project with representatives of all the agencies involved, the Kenyatta University (Kenya), the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), the University of Tartu (Estonia) , the Technical University of Madrid (Spain), the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (Uganda) and the Estonian company AgileWorks. (9colonne)