Strengthening African Academies

The project Strengthening African Academies ran from July 2015 – August 2019. The project’s aim is to foster the dialogue between science, policy and society.

Project partners: the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), the Global Young Academy (GYA)

Project aims:

• to consolidate the position of the African Science Academies as providers of independent science-based advice to policy-makers and societies in Africa
• to communicate the science-based advice by the African Science Academies which was the result of the collaboration between the Leopoldina and NASAC in the period 2011-2015, on Health, Water Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Agricultural Biotechnology
• to strengthen collaboration by expanding the circle of project partners, thereby increasing the contact and support within the membership of NASAC and strengthening the entire network
• to broaden collaboration by involving young African researchers and Young Academies in Africa and encouraging and supporting the formation of new National Young Academies where none exist
• to scope further thematic work between the Leopoldina, the African Science Academies, the African National Young Academies and African members of the GYA, with a focus on the area of sustainable urban development