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Europe and Africa are entering a new era in radio astronomy in which the SKA will play a major role. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest scientific project ever undertaken in radioastronomy and one of the major Scientific Infrastructures. A truly Global collaboration of 55 Institutes in 19 countries, it will be mostly installed in South Africa and other African countries: Mozambique, Botswana, Mauritius, Zambia, Namibia, Kenya, Ghana and Madagascar, and in Australia and New Zeland... The Square Kilometre Array: a large Scale ESFRI Infrastructure, From the Cosmos to the Cities of the future... A side event to the '2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Week on ICT' organised by the EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Initiative on Nov. 26-30, 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal ( www.euroafrica-ict.org)