Association of African Universities’ Post

Save the Date for the 2024 #Africa Universities Day celebration! Theme: Celebrating the African Union Commission Year of Education. Weeklong celebrations: Nov 11-15, 2024. 🎊 Main Event: Nov 12, 2024. Mark your calendars for an inspiring week! #AfricaUniversitiesDay #Education #AfricanUnion

Grasp this opportunity at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar! Apply now for Faculty Positions in AI, Postdoctoral Positions, and Faculty Position in Computational Biology. Visit www.africa.edujobs.com #CMUQatar #JobOpenings #AI #Biology

A great kick-off of the SGCI High-Level Design Bootcamp! The #SGCI High-Level Design Bootcamp is underway in #Nigeria, supporting researchers to refine their solutions & develop strategic documents to drive impact. Participants will also learn to develop strategic documents to meet market demand. The boot camp is under the research and Innovation project implemented by #AAU and funded by #IDRC AND OTHERS #Innovation #Africa #InnovationInAfrica African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

AAU's Strategic Foresight & Intelligence training is underway! Participants are already indulging in practical tools for strategic decision-making in higher education. #StrategicForesight #HigherEdAfrica

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It's just tomorrow! Join 'African universities as development agents' webinar on October 8th! Prof Oyewole Olusola Bandele, AAU Secretary General, would be speaking on the AAU's role in promoting regional cooperation and integration, and more. Register now! https://lnkd.in/eervz5RY Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eg-Y_YhV #HigherEd #Africa #Development

The Association of African Universities was represented in the Greenovations High Level Policy Forum in Uganda (23-25 September 2024) hosted by United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) to discuss the project's outputs and foster collaboration with key actors of the green entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. The Greenovations project has developed structures and mechanisms to support the identification, ideation, and development of solutions by start-ups to attract funding and absorb large capital, thus going beyond early-stage green start-ups to growing, and mature green innovation enterprises. The project established a framework for bringing actors and stakeholders of the green innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Africa with a focus on empowering African youth and women. The Greenovations project initiated appropriated measures and structures to support and strengthen the ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. Key follow up issues for us at the AAU are to: 1) Link our AFRID entrepreneurship community to AfriLabs - a network organisation supporting Innovation Centers across African countries since 2011 2) Link our AFRID entrepreneurship community to AEUA an Alliance for Entrepreneurial Universities in Africa. () 3) Support the dissemination of outputs from the Greenovations Project to Entrepreneurship Departments in AAU Member Universities. These outputs include entrepreneurship courses, reports and the virtual system for managing innovation hubs We are grateful to Prof Erick Gankam Tambo and the UNU team Yannick Schillinger and Tarisai Kanyepi for inviting us and Rizwaan Khambata who facilitated the stimulating sessions.

The Association of African Universities was excited to be invited to the UNESCO Chairs and Partners Forum on "Transforming Knowledge for Africa's Future" which was jointly organized with the African Union Commission (African Union) in Addis Ababa from 29 September to 2nd October 2024. The AAU Director of ICT-Services, Communications & Knowledge Management (Nodumo Dhlamini) is the Chairperson of the Knowledge Generation Working Group of the African Union's CESA Early Childhood Education Development Cluster. This working group successfully hosted a parallel session titled "Africa also knows - possibilities and prospects for early childhood care and education to become the new frontier of knowledge for Africa’s future we want". KEY MESSAGE: Generating early childhood care & education (ECCE) knowledge is crucial, requiring diverse research methodologies that promote agency, voice, participation, and complexity, with a focus on intersectionality. It is essential that our research prioritizes work with young children, about children, and for children. Thank you for the excellent collaboration: Professor hasina ebrahim Dr Yoshie Kaga; Professor Oumar Barry; Dr Meseret Zelalem; Dr Pauline Essah, PhD Essah; Dr George Evans Owino (Ph.D.) The African Early Childhood Network (AfECN), Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) , and the African Centre for ECD, Ethiopia

Mark your calendars for this upcoming webinar on Oct 8, 2pm BST: 'African universities as development agents' with Prof Oyewole Olusola Bandele, AAU Secretary General. Explore the role of regional cooperation in driving development. Register now! https://lnkd.in/eePnbDUz This webinar is part of the Centre for Global Higher Education – OBREAL Webinar Series: From Global to Inter-Regional Higher Education. Find out more about other webinars from this series here: https://lnkd.in/egK9mwNt #HigherEd #Development #AAU

Join us at ETD 2024 in Livingstone, Zambia on Nov 4-6! Explore new approaches to Electronic Theses & Dissertations, AI techniques, & global visibility. More info: https://etd2024.unza.zm/ Register here: https://lnkd.in/e2fTf5hH #ETD2024 #GlobalVisibility #Innovation