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 African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) The African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) is pleased to announce that the call for applications for the next intake programme: the AGNES Intra-Africa Mobility Grant for Junior Researchers is now open. AGNES aims to strengthen the scientific capacity and networking in Africa through active co-operation of AGNES and potential AGNES members. The programme enables researchers studying towards a Masters or PhD from sub-Saharan African countries to spend Read more…

UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science UNESCO calls for nominations for UNESCO Kalinga prize qualified candidates. our country is invited to nominate one candidate to be considered for the award. this year”s winner will be awarded by the Director-General during the world Science Forum to be held in Amman (Jordan) from 11 to 12 November 2017. the recipient will receive a monetary award of $20,000, a certificate, and the UNESCO Albert Einstein silver Read more…

The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme provides postdoctoral researchers who have obtained their PhD not earlier than 2012 and are from sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, with the opportunity to make a ‘Cooperation Visit’ to an institute in Germany. Please find attached the relevant application form. Such visits will have a duration of no more than three months and must be undertaken within 12 months of the award. The deadline for submission is *31 March 2017*. Please see: http://twas.org/opportunity/twas-dfg-cooperation-visits-programme   Read more…

NCST under the facilitation of COMESA and the Malawi Investment and Trade Centre, signed an MOU with the Egypt’s’ Bahgat Group of Companies in April, 2016. The MOU intends to establish a platform of cooperation in the fields of research and development, innovation and technology specifically in the areas of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Household Appliance, Human Capacity Development, Exchange of Scientific Knowledge, Technology Development and Transfer among others. Out of the fifteen applications that were received, NCST selected the  three Read more…

The Inception meeting and NeedFinding workshop attracted participants from the following SGCs: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Namibia, Uganda, Senegal, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Resource persons came from the following institutions: African Union Commission, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and SARIMA. The following countries did not send representatives primarily due to short notice that was given: Kenya, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Mozambique.   The SGCI-Theme #2 Read more…

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a new, post-2015 development agenda. Concurrently, the African Union (AU) has established a blueprint for Africa’s development in the form of Agenda 2063. In the presence of these two development pathways, a new shift in the balance of emphasis on Africa’s development aspirations has evolved, with interface between Social and Natural Sciences/Applied Sciences becoming pivotal in the achievement of sustainable development goals. It Read more…