The ECA president Alessia Bacchi and past president Andrè Roodt contributed to the ceremony of inauguration of diffractometers donated by Bruker at the Laboratory of Crystallography and Molecular Physics Felix Houphouet Boigny University (Ivory Coast). The inauguration was followed by a IUCr-UNESCO-Bruker OpenLab. ECA contributed to sponsor the participation of young african scientists to the Open Lab. In the picture Alessia Bacchi, Dan Schetchman – Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2011, Jules Tenon Abodou – of the FHB University, Sven Lidin – President of the IUCr, Claude Lecomte – Chair of the IUCr Initiative for Africa, Andrè Roodt.