The Advisory Committee shall provides advice to the 
Governing Board in all scientific and technical matters, in 
particular on the Centre’s education curricula. 
The United Nations serves the Centre and its Governing 
Board and Advisory Committee in an advisory capacity. 
8. The Secretariat and the Secretary-General 
The seat of the Secretariat, at this moment located in 
Brasil, will rotated between Brasil and Mexico every 
fours years, a period that could only be renewed once for 
another period of four years if the Governing Board so 
decides. 
The Secretariat is headed by a Secretary-General (at 
this moment is Dr. José Marques da Costa, a Brazilian 
scientist) who is the chief administrative officer of the 
Centre.He shall be apointed by the Governing Board 
upon recommendation of the participating States. 
Recently the Centre has had the Centre Statute and 
Rules approved by the Governing Board. The UN 
Affiliation Agreement is under analyses by the United 
Nations. The Headquarters Agreement for the operation 
of the Centre in Mexico was signed in October 23trd, 
2002 
9. The Centres Activities 
The Regional Centres for Space Science and 
Technology Education have to orient their activities to: 
(a)Education in the fields of remote sensing and GIS; 
satellite communications; satellite meteorology and 
global climate; and space and atmospheric sciences in 
two separate programmes: 
(i) Core 9-month education programmes leading to a 
diploma from the regional centre; 
(i) Advanced 12-month programmes leading to a 
master 's degree; 
(b) Training: short-term and customized 
(duration depending on the type of training); 
training 
(c) Research: specific research projects; 
(d)Consultancy, particularly in combination with projects 
in the region. 
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10.Curricula Meetings 
The United Nations has developed model curricula for 
these Centers In the period of February 27th to March 
3rd, 1995 the OOSA/UN has held the UN/SPAIN 
Meeting of Experts on Curriculum Development in 
Granada, Spain, in order to establish the Centre Core 
Curricula. 
In this meeting there were representatives from all host 
countries and invited experts in remote sensing, 
meteorology, satellite communications and space science 
areas from all over the world. 
In September 3-6, 2001 the OOSA/UN, with the 
support of ESA-ESRIN, held the United Nations Expert 
Meeting on the Regional Centres for Space Science and 
Technology Education: Status and Future Developments, 
in Frascati, Italy 
The objective of this second meeting was to propose an 
updated curriculum and review of the UN Centre actions 
since Granada Meeting, in March 1995. 
11.The CRECTEALC Campi —Brasil and Mexico 
Initially two Campi were establisehd, one in Brasil and 
one in Mexico. Each Campus shall prepare its own 
annual programmes and budget, to be submitted through 
the Secretariat to the Governing Board. 
In Brasil, the National Institute for Space Research- 
INPE, located in Sáo José dos Campos, SP, is hosting the 
Campus and the Centre Headquarter. 
In Mexico a pool of institutions and universities will 
host the Campus, leading by the INAOE. 
12. The Brasil Campus 
In August 5% 2002, during the third Council Center 
meeting, Dr. Tania Maria Sausen, a researcher from 
INPE, was officially nominated the Brasil Campus 
Director. 
For the next four years the following actitivies are 
planned for the Brasil Campus: 
a)To develop the Brasil Campus Rules; 
b)To adapt the Internacional Course on Remote Sensing 
(specialization level, seven months long, dedicated to 
Latin American professionals) that has been developing 
by INPE in the last 15 years, to the Centre Curriculum; 
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