GISDAAD, through Prof. Inyang has been active in European activities in the areas of energy security, environmental management, natural disaster management and higher education capacity building for the past 20 years. As his full resume indicates, his service has involved engagement of public policy-makers in Europe, research on critical issues, leadership of international organizations and activities, as well as collaboration with European agencies and scholars. He has evaluated European technical programs and institutes at the invitation of several European governmental agencies: Belgium (2003) regarding evaluation of the environmental diversity program of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren; Switzerland (2001), where he was invited to join a four-person International Panel for evaluation of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos and service as a panelist for the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Division of Physical and Engineering Sciences; and Finland (2004) as a collaborator with the Finnish Environmental Institute on waste containment technology information dissemination and conference programs. In order to build capacity in Europe and increase opportunities for engagement of European experts with those from other regions, on various aspects of sustainable development, he has cochaired and given keynote speeches or served as a technical committee member of 13 events in 8 European countries during the past 20 years. Among them have been United Kingdom (2001, 2004), Italy (2002), Spain (2004), Turkey (2004), Switzerland (2001, 2003, 2006), Finland (2004), Czech Republic (1997), Slovenia (2006) and Germany (2009).
He has also engaged in activities that have promoted trans-Atlantic collaboration in science and technology between US experts and institutes, and their European counterparts. Examples of these activities are hosting and supervision of research interns from French institutions, co-editorship of special editions of refereed journals and edited books with European scholars, and engagement of European public officials and scholars in sustainable development discussions, under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Government of Switzerland. Prof. Inyang collaborated with Prof. Kortnik of the University of Llubljana, Slovenia in 2007 to organize an ISEG conference and training sessions for representatives from mostly Eastern Europe, on waste management. A follow-up program was hosted in Bochum, Germany in 2009. In August 2007, he joined several European Union energy and environmental leaders in Athens, Greece to analyze requirements for market expansion for renewable energy systems in developing countries. The program was organized by the Economist Magazine.
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