Month: May 2017

Calls:

• ZA: SASAC High-level Systems Analysis Capacity Strengthening Three Week Programme at the Universities of the Witswatersrand and Limpopo for early-career scientsts – Deadline 30.6.
• CLIENT II – German Ministry of Education and Science call to support  joint research and development projects in the fields of e.g. energy, water management, natural resources – Deadline 29.9.2017

 

Interesting Reads

• The Access to Vaccines 2017 report by the Access to Medicine Foundation
• Striking underrepresentation of Southern perspectives in Development Journals
• Brasilien scientist argues for more bioful-production with careful consideration of food security in mind
• Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia is the new World Health Director-General
• On 13. March, the Senegal based research center CODESRIA appointed Dr Godwin Murunga as its new executive secretary
• Kenyan techs have developed an app to find the best prices for medication and personal items

 

Calls for Application

• CODESRIA: Call for Proposals: Support to Doctoral schools, Re-building scholarly infrastructures and academic communities in the Social Sciences and Humanities in African Universities (deadline: 15.6.)

Interesting Reads:

• What motivates African researchers to return to their countries?
• New Solar Plant north of Dakar (French)
• Is Hydropower the key to energy access in African countries?
• What does it take to implement Codes of Scientific Conduct?
• Developing an app for fisher in Senegal: Mathematician Mouhamed Moustapha Fall
• AU founds African Centre for Disease Controle
• In 2018, vaccination trials against Malaria will start in African countries
• The UKCDS publishes new report on equal North-South research development cooperation
• The Science March in African cities
• The 2016 African Union Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award went to Ghana and Egypt
• Africa’s top 5 female scientists awarded $20,000 each by AU with EU support