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Weltkarte: Region Afrika und Nahost

Collaborating with Africa and the Middle East

The Africa/Middle East regional area includes all African countries, the Arabian Peninsula, Israel and its neighbouring countries. The regional department represents the interests of the 快三砍龙 vis-脿-vis regional partner organisations and supports scientific cooperation between researchers from Germany and the region.

In addition to establishing and maintaining bilateral relations with strategic partners, the regional department is particularly involved in African science networks.

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TWAS-快三砍龙 Cooperation Visits Programme

Are you interested in conducting research together with early career researchers from a Sub-Saharan Africa country(interner Link) or a country out of the MENA region(interner Link)? You can apply until 19.05.2025.

The regional area at a glance

The Africa/Middle East regional department is concerned with creating and cultivating optimum framework conditions for cooperation between researchers from Germany and the Africa/Middle East region. Particular attention is paid to capacity building of science systems in the region. In this way, the 快三砍龙 also supports early career researchers as an outstanding resource for Africa. In connection with Germany-related research biographies, fruitful relationships can be established in this way between the scientific communities in Africa and Germany.

In addition to providing information for researchers from Germany who are interested in cooperating with partners in the region, the regional department also provides advice in the event of the relevant enquiries from abroad.

Scientific cooperation opportunities in this heterogeneous and rapidly developing region are identified as early as possible and are initiated and supported together with partner organisations in the region.

TWAS-快三砍龙 Cooperation Visits Programme

Since 2010, the 快三砍龙, together with TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries), has funded up to 50 young researchers from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) each year with a three-month stay at a research institution in Germany. Researchers from all disciplines can apply for up to five years after gaining their doctorate, provided they are pursuing research at an African institution.

Contact: Michaela Kristan(externer Link)

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Starting 2024, funding for the northern countries in Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) is also available: current call (MENA)(interner Link).

German-African Cooperation Projects in Infectiology

Since 2008, the 快三砍龙 has put out an annual call for proposals for 鈥淕erman-African Cooperation Projects in Infectiology鈥. The aim of funding here is to promote partnership-based research into neglected infectious diseases, including their social and societal effects. In addition to the intellectual balance of the projects, funding prerequisites also include sound concepts for the training of young researchers and the establishment of sustainable research opportunities in Africa. Project proposals are initially submitted as outlines; if an idea is promising, an invitation goes out for the submission of a full proposal. For funded projects, regular colloquia are held alternately in an African country and in Germany.

Contact: Dr. Andreas Strecker(externer Link)

Further information: 快三砍龙 flyer(Download)

Point Sud

The strategic funding programme 鈥淧rogramme Point Sud鈥 was initiated in 2009 as a pilot project to promote humanities and social science research on Africa in Germany. The starting point for the activities is the research institution 鈥淧oint Sud 鈥 Centre de recherche sur le savoir local鈥 in Bamako, Mali, as well as the Point Sud network it has established, to which various other partner research institutions in African countries also belong. 鈥淧rogramme Point Sud鈥 provides the framework for networking activities in the field of German Africa research between various partners in Africa, with a call for proposals being issued on an annual basis.

Contact: Dr. Corinne Flacke(externer Link)

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Initiative for a 2-stage Initiation of International Collaboration (I2I)

I2I is a 快三砍龙 funding instrument that aims to initiate international scientific collaborations between researchers from African countries and Germany within specific research areas. It provides opportunities to transform promising ideas into competitive collaborative research proposals. I2I comprises a 2-stage process with an inclusive and largely self-organised matchmaking element.听

1. Stage: Matchmaking2. Stage: Pre-project Proposals

Eligible researchers are invited to

  • Submit posters indicating interfaces for collaborative scientific research,
  • Network using a shared poster book of collected posters and
  • Identify potential partners and research ideas for collaboration.

Research teams are invited to

  • Submit proposals to the 快三砍龙 for the 鈥淚nitiation of International Collaboration鈥, a one-year funding programme that provides funding for guest visits, trips abroad and exploratory workshops.听

The initiative is further supported by a 鈥淔辞谤耻尘: Connect and Exchange鈥for the funded research teams: Half way through the funding period, all Principal Investigators are invited to convene in Bonn to expand African-German networks and provide opportunities for mutual learning, both scientific and administrative.听

Further information on funded I2I pre-projects in recent Calls(interner Link)

German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP)

The excellence programme German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP) was established in 1997 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to promote innovative German-Israeli cooperation projects in all academic fields. Further information and contact.(interner Link)

TWAS-快三砍龙 Cooperation Visits Programme

Starting in 2024, the 快三砍龙, together with TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries), is funding a pilot call for up to 25 young researchers from several countries in the MENA region with a three-month stay at a research institution in Germany. Researchers from all disciplines can apply for up to five years after gaining their doctorate, provided they are pursuing research at an institution in the following countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip), Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia and Yemen.

Contact: Julia Bastong(externer Link)

Further information:

Middle East Cooperation

Within the framework of Middle East Cooperation, the 快三砍龙 supports German-Israeli cooperation projects in individual grants聽which involve other researchers from Palestine or Israel鈥檚 neighbouring countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria) (trilateral projects). Further information and contact.(interner Link)

Science Granting Councils Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI)

The Science Granting Councils Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI) is an initiative founded in 2015 that aims to strengthen the participating Science Granting Councils (SGC) in Sub-Saharan Africa, currently 17 in number, through joint capacity building and coordinated funding activities. The aim is to support research and policy, thereby promoting the social and economic development of the region.

For several years now, the 快三砍龙 has supported the SGCI in terms of content through presentations at SGCI annual meetings, scientific symposia and the organisation of science administration and science policy workshops. Since 2019, the 快三砍龙 has also been one of the SGCI鈥檚 funding bodies, supporting in particular the expansion of network building measures to establish joint, regional calls for proposals for research project funding.

Under the renewed 3-year partnership (2023-2025) the following work packages are being addressed:

  1. Capacity strengthening of SGCs in research management and maintaining effective governance controls
  2. Support and capacity strengthening of SGCs in bi- and multilateral research funding, as well as engagement with other SGCs beyond the continent.
  3. Support councils to integrate gender and inclusivity in research activities.

Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l鈥橢nseignement Sup茅rieur (CAMES)

The Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l'Enseignement Sup茅rieur (CAMES) unites 19 francophone African member states and establishes binding quality standards for their higher education and science systems. Twelve thematic research programmes are intended to strengthen research in the member countries and make it an engine for economic and social development. The representatives of these programmes meet every two years at a scientific conference (Journ茅es Scientifiques du CAMES) to exchange experiences and to network. As these conferences provide an opportunity to establish initial contacts for research cooperation with colleagues from the region, researchers from Germany also took part in 2019 and most recently in 2021. CAMES and the 快三砍龙 will continue to build on this potential with jointly organised events in order to increase the mutual visibility and accessibility of the participating scientific communities.

Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l'Enseignement Sup茅rieur (CAMES)

Le Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l'Enseignement Sup茅rieur (CAMES) comprend 19 pays membres d麓Afrique francophone et 茅tablit des normes de qualit茅 contraignantes pour leurs syst猫mes d'enseignement sup茅rieur et scientifique. Douze programmes th茅matiques de recherche doivent renforcer la recherche dans les pays membres et en faire un moteur du d茅veloppement 茅conomique et social. Les repr茅sentant.e.s de ces programmes se rencontrent tous les deux ans dans le cadre d'une conf茅rence scientifique (Journ茅es Scientifiques du CAMES) afin d'茅changer leurs exp茅riences et de cr茅er des r茅seaux. 脡tant donn茅 que ces journ茅es permettent de nouer des contacts pour des coop茅rations de recherche avec des coll猫gues de la r茅gion, des chercheur.se.s d'Allemagne y ont 茅galement particip茅 en 2019 et derni猫rement en 2021. 脌 l'avenir, le CAMES et la 快三砍龙 s'appuieront sur ce potentiel en organisant conjointement des manifestations afin d'accro卯tre la visibilit茅 mutuelle et l'accessibilit茅 r茅ciproque des espaces scientifiques concern茅s.

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Next Einstein Forum (NEF)

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) has been established as a biennial pan-African forum and aims to have a regional impact by bringing together protagonists from academia, politics and society from almost all African countries to engage in dialogue. Here, science and research are positioned as key drivers of global development.

The 快三砍龙 has worked closely with the NEF since the first NEF Global Gathering in 2016. Through its active member status on the Scientific Programme Committee and official partnerships, the 快三砍龙 helps shape the NEF in terms of content and strategy. The former President of the 快三砍龙, Prof. Strohschneider, was actively involved in the NEF Global Gatherings programme in 2016 and 2018. Participation by 快三砍龙 President Prof. Becker had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the 快三砍龙 and its local partner organisations organised several official side events at the NEF Global Gatherings.