The new fund will provide resources to offer vocational training in areas where youth are recruited into jihadist groups, and counter propoganda through educational programmes in schools and on the internet. Its takes as its model funds that provide money for grass-roots organisations countering the spread of diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis in the developing world.If you want to make big strides toward improving solar energy technologies, you've got to be able to test your ideas year 'round and in a place where sun exposure is both persistent and hot. Abu Dhabi is just such a place. We've already reported on ?Abu Dhabi's project and some of their more ?innovative programs such as the? and recent advances in . Now, we're beginning to see some collaborative efforts between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Masdar that are intended to hasten the advance of renewable and sustainable energy technologies.