Science with Africa

The Science with Africa initiative aims for African sustainability by transferring and sharing R&D knowledge with the African continent. Exploring how African science oriented organizations can increase their level and range of participation in international R&D projects will realize this goal. Africa and the developed world alike will benefit from deepening scientific collaboration, which will be a major tool towards achieving the MDGs.

Create new synergies between European, US and other global science based organisations and those in Africa, where there is an ongoing need to strengthen and improve existing R&D activities, centres of excellence and partnerships;

Improve linkages between international research programmes and business in order to foster economic growth in Africa.

Promote research policy evaluation with a view to establishing effective, concrete, evidence based science policies and policy options for Africa;

Provide a framework for using Science and Technology options to support economic progress in Africa;

Raise the level of participation by Africa-based scientists in international collaborative research projects.

Improve awareness of access to and use of existing patent information, thereby assisting technology transfer both with and in Africa.

Establish an empirical evidence based system for improved investment by the private sector for Science with Africa;

Put in place a dissemination system and enabling ICT environment in providing access to information and knowledge on science partners in Africa.