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pan></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2px"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:23px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)">The course is <strong>FREE</strong> and <strong>OPEN</strong> to anyone who has the motivation, persistence, and interest in learning about disaster risk reduction.<br><br>Please feel free to share this announcement with your contacts and networks.<br><br>We hope to see you online in November!<br><br><strong>Your Tech4DRR MOOC Team</strong><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm"><div align="center"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" style="width:450pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:6pt solid rgb(166,191,201);padding:0cm 0cm 6.75pt"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="width:600px;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:6.75pt 0cm 0cm"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="width:600px;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="600" style="width:450pt;padding:0cm"><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="width:600px;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0cm 13.5pt 6.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16px"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)">Cooperation & Development Center</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)"><br><strong>UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development</strong></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)"><br><br>EPFL - ENT - CODEV<br>Station 10 - 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)<br>Email: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)"><a href="mailto:drrmooc@epfl.ch" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">drrmooc@epfl.ch</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)"><br>Tel.: +41 (0)21 693 6045<br></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)"><a href="http://cooperation.epfl.ch/Education/DRR-MOOC" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(67,64,77)">http://cooperation.epfl.ch/<wbr>Education/DRR-MOOC</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)"><br><br>Discuss at #TECH4DRR - Follow us @codevEPFL </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;color:rgb(67,64,77)">​</span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;line-height:14.1667px;font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(67,64,77)"><u></u><u></u></span></font></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px"><div id="gmail-:la" class="gmail-ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/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