Gaurav Kumar Sharma's International SILAE membership card

Gaurav Kumar Sharma's International SILAE membership card

The Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine

(SILAE)

Gaurav Kumar Sharma (International Member)

The fundamental objective of SILAE is to promote the research, development and use of medicinal and food plants in different countries of the Word. SILAE welcomes and actively seeks opportunities to work cooperatively, activating and intensifying scientific relations between Countries and between SILAE Members.

SILAE proposes to establish contacts with Scientific Communities, Universities, Research Centres for the pursuit of medicinal and food plants knowledge. Science is international.

SILAE aims to be a truly international scientific organization by providing access to the scientific literature to anyone, anywhere; by publishing works, through our SILAE Special Issues, from every nation; by engaging a geographically diverse group of scientists in technical-scientific relationships, projects and interexchange programsand visits.

Since SILAE was founded its objective has been set to contribute to the close examination of the themes of great interest and actuality in the context of the relationships between Latin America and European Union.

In addition to this it aimed to individualize new ways of collaboration among its member countries, also in the amplest frame of the European as well as Asiatic continent to sign under such accords with intergovernmental organisms.

The Italo-Latin American Society of Ethnomedicine (SILAE) develops research programs in collaboration with prestigious Latin American Universities, The programs which are active for two decades are inserted in the systematic study of medicinal and alimentary plants coming from various Countries such as Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and recently the studies are extended to Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Costarica, Honduras, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico) where a lot of countries which are boastful of their traditional medicine and secular fitotherapy secular application.

In the technical-scientific field, SILAE privileges sectors of particular importance in the Latin American context, for instance health, environment, phytochemistry, pharmacology, food chemistry and nutrition, and through seminars, symposiums, international congresses, studies and researches (documented with over 500 publications on international journals) realized in collaboration with Governments, scientific and academic institutions and specialized corporate body of the Country members. Activity is expounded in a particular way through the execution of specific projects, the participation mediates a plan which ncessitates to use some tools of corporate body support of European and Latin American research studies.

Also in terms of cooperation SILAE activates programs corresponding to the priorities delineated in the plans of development of the Latin American Countries. Such cooperation is expressed through the realization of programs directed to favor of professional formation and the mutual transfer of scientific knowledge through the exchange of teachers and through the strengthening of the university institutions, when necessary, equipments and tools, to support the Latin American structures.

In the future it is hoped to have the support of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Contacts: Dipartimento Scienze Farmaceutiche Università degli Studi di Salerno – Italy

Gaurav Kumar Sharma's SILAE card (International Member)

The Italo Latin American & African Society of Ethanomedicine