Science for Africa-EU partnership
Side events
Africa Europe Week
Information
This session will illustrate some of the scientific activities on Africa conducted by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in collaboration with a variety of African and other international partners. It will start by a presentation of the Africa Knowledge Platform – a visual and interactive gateway to this multi-disciplinary work – followed by a discussion on how to strengthen the role of Science, Technology and Innovation in supporting the policy goals of the AU-EU partnership.
From 9:00 am to 10:30 am, two thematic parallel sessions will focus in detail on various relevant topics and will be reported in the plenary session:
- Nuclear Science for a Safer Society - join via this link
- Multi-disciplinary tools for monitoring and risk assessment in Africa - join via this link
Organised by
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Speakers
Rakiya BABAMAAJI
Assistant DirectorNASRDA
Mariya Gabriel
Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and YouthEuropean Commission
Alan Belward (moderator)
Stephen Quest
Director-GeneralEuropean Commission's Joint Research Centre
Stephen Peedell
Portfolio Leader, AfricaJoint Research Centre
Guido Saraco
RettorePolitecnico di Torino
Agnes ASELE
Technical OfficerAfrica CDCGB
Godfrey Bahiigwa
DirectorAfrican Union Commission Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture
Marjeta JAGER
Deputy Director-GeneralEuropean CommissionRegistered attendees
Agnes ASELE
Technical OfficerAfrica CDC
Benjamin Koetz
Head of Sustainable Initiatives Office, Science, Applications and Climate DepartmentDirectorate of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency (ESA)
Cay Etzold
Senior ExpertDAAD - Center for Interational Academic Collaborations - S21