Calls
- The European Union has published its work programme ‘Science with and for Society’ for 2018-2020
- The New School for Social Research’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (New York) invites applications from all over the world for its summer schools for graduate students and faculty from 10.-16.10. Among other with Jean and John Comaroff (Havard University) about their ‘Theory from the South’. Deadline for application is the 15.12.2017
Conferences
Interesting reads
- A bladeless wind turbine model was developed in Tunesia promising to multiply energy output
- Minister Naledi Pandor of South Africa talks about scientific capacities and actions on gender equality in science
- In 2016, an initiative to harmonize R&D grant administration was launched in Nairobi to enhance scientific autonomy
- The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) since recenly supports a University Programme on Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency in Senegal (PESEREE) with four Senegalese Universities to support national development plans
- The Fall catalogue of the African Books Collective is out, including titles on research cooperation and higher education in African states (p13-15) (The African Books Collective is a unique opportunity to get news from the diverse publishing landscape of Africa, however with an anglophone bias)