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Building Science Capacity in Africa
We are proud to announce that the IUCr has been awarded a grant for the project "Building Science Capacity in Africa via Crystallography" under the ICSU Grants Programme 2015. The proposal was prepared as a follow-up to the IYCr Pan African Summit meeting (Bloemfontein, October 2014) and submitted by the IUCr (as an ICSU member) on behalf of Andreas Roodt, President of ECA and chair of the Summit meeting, and Michele Zema, IYCr Project Manager and IUCr representative for the proposal.
The IUCr project is supported by:
- ECA
- UNESCO
- ICSU Regional Office for Africa
- INDABA Series of meetings
- SAASTA (South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement) Public Engagement with Nanotechnology
The project aims at further cementing the African Crystallographic Association (AfCA), whose Steering Committee has been established at the Summit meeting in Bloemfontein in October 2014. The programme will be conducted as part of the IUCr Crystallography in Africa initiative.
The main actions will be:
- (i) to set up a follow-up meeting to the Summit, preferentially in Northern Africa, to further work towards the formal formation of AfCA;
- (ii) to arrange a workshop in Central Africa, preferably in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to offer local scientists the opportunity to interact, liaise and strengthen basic knowledge of crystallography;
- (iii) to bring African scientists to the INDABA series of conferences in South Africa (in the latter part of 2015) to expose them to high-level international interdisciplinary science.
Moreover, the project includes many additional actions, which will be undertaken pending the availability of funds, infrastructure and human resources.
For more information, please go here.
