AMSEN will focus on improving education in material sciences. SABINA will concentrate on studies related to improving food security and public health. WIO-RISE will use research and training to promote the sustainable development, utilization and protection of the coastal and marine environment. "The RISE initiative is a welcome shot in the arm for science and technology training in African universities. The timing is really spot on at this time when the continent has to adapt to a dynamic and rapidly changing world. The best coping mechanism is well-trained human capital," Egwang said.
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August 2008
Engineers, oceanographers and chemists in eight African countries will benefit from three grants of US $800,000 each from a new science and education initiative. Amongst the recipients is the Southern Africa Biochemistry and Informatics for Natural Products initiative, headed by John Saka, a chemistry professor at the University of Malawi.
July 2008
The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has won a Sh1bn research and training grant to build its human capacity for sciences and engineering. The Tanzanian program will use research and training to promote sustainable development, utilization and protection of the coastal and marine environment. It will have some partner universities in Mozambique and South Africa. Article here.
July 2008
The Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE) today announced that grants, each worth US$800,000 over 2.5 years, will be awarded to three networks of sub-Saharan universities. The three awardees were selected from among 48 proposals involving 29 countries by a blue ribbon panel of international scientists. Proposals were evaluated based on scientific merit, training capacity, research activities, evidence of institutional support, added value of the network structure and potential for sustainability, including strategies for retaining faculty.
July 2008
African scientific and engineering research is to receive a $2.4 million boost over the next two and a half years in the form of a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The grant is meant to improve teaching in African universities and increase the number of doctorates in science. South Africa and Africa as a whole lag behind the developed world in terms of number of people graduating with doctorates, but South Africa is ahead of China and India on this ratio, the vice president of the National Research Foundation's Research and innovation Support Agency, Dr.
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