Excellence in Africa

“Excellence in Africa” is a new initiative jointly launched by EPFL and UM6P (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University – Morocco) which aims to have a significant impact on excellent scientific research throughout the African continent.

Excellence in Africa: launch of the programme "Digital Education"

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With around half its population under 20 years old and the increasing use of electronic devices, Africa is ideally poised to benefit from the emergence of digital education and to rapidly scale up access to quality education to talented and motivated students.

Excellence in Africa : A successful first call for proposals

21.04.20NewsEPFL

The first call for proposals of the Junior Faculty Development program in African universities – the first pillar of an Excellence in Africa initiative (EXAF) jointly launched by EPFL and UM6P – closed on 15th April. No less than 182 applicants submitted their application on the EPFL platform. This large number of applications shows that the program has raised great interest throughout Africa, and it augurs well for the future of this new initiative.

EPFL and UM6P launch a new MOOC platform

15.04.20NewsEPFL

EPFL and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco have launched a new online learning portal featuring 41 MOOCs developed at EPFL. The platform, which took just days to develop, is the first output of a partnership deal struck between the two institutions shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak. It could eventually open to students from the rest of Morocco’s engineering schools.

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