Would be good to list ongoing activities between AU and EU.

Prof Barry - Thanks for sharing the ‘brain bridge’ concept from your colleagues in India. That’s an indication of an important shift in mindset.

Prof Hilde - Related to your remark on persisting inequalities, could you please share your thoughts on how we can jointly influence funding organisations? Funding instruments often seem to, by design, entrench agenda setting and dominance of European institutions.

Would be interested in how to pusue, within ARUA and Guild, work on what Hugues was talking about interdiscplinary work, with focus on ”wicked ” problems like Hilde talked about.

Actually there are many space science-related project ongoing in Africa… including astronomy. What is lacking, unfortunately, is networking across the continent.

Learn more on the proposals developed in the context of ARUA-The Guild partnership: https://www.the-guild.eu/resources/strengthening-the-african-knowledge-society.html

https://kfpe.scnat.ch/en/11_principles_7_questions

Thank you!

or here: https://11principles.org/

The main problem of africain universities is that they are not connected to their socialites and traditional economies. They have to live in a duality of two economies. There is very poor innovation system, .very poor interface between universities and local economies

@fulviofranchi Astronomy is still considered as a new discipline in many African countries (except South Africa and North African countries). Many countries do not yet have an astronomy program in their universities. Talking about networking, there are already AfAS, AfNWA, Astronomy in Colour, etc.

Marie we are running an Intra Africa project on that, PAPSSN: www.papssnmobility.org

The main problem of the African universities is that they are not connected to their sociaty. There is a very poor interface between universities and local economy. They live in a duality of two economies. There is a very poor national system of innovation and bad interface between universities, political authorities and economic authorities

Fulviofranchi, thanks for sharing! This is an ambitious project. Is it also open for french speaking countries in Africa?

At the Antenna Foundation www.antenna.ch/en we are super interested in getting more research applied to innovations for the most needy. JustinV@antenna.ch

The main problem of African universities is the disengagement of the states which do not finance research

during last 15 years, we have been running cooperative projects between EU and NorthAfrica institutions and we learned the 3FA results (Finish Funding Finish Activity). We need to put attention on the education role. We think that the only sustainable programme to EU-Africa research cooperation is implementing the high education through innovation. This is just to apply what we do in Europe (project development by postgraduate students) and translate it to the programs for EU-Africa collaboration.

We can discuss it in detail

Read the call of 16 leading African universities to develop a Stronger Research Ecosystem in Africa: https://arua.org.za/developing-a-stronger-research-ecosystem-in-africa-towards-an-enhanced-role-for-universities-through-clusters-of-excellence/