Workshop: The researcher’s environment in Africa: what strategies for the promotion of research excellence?

Workshop: The researcher's environment in Africa: what strategies for the promotion of research excellence?

Abidjan, Ivory Coast
20-21 February 2020

To prepare for the launch of the Excellence in Africa initiative, the EPFL and the Francophonie Service of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs – FDFA, in close collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Ivory Coast, wishes to bring together French-speaking African and Swiss academics interested in the emergence of research excellence in Africa with the following objectives:

  • To map all the problems encountered by researchers in Africa;
  • To list the possible solutions implemented by African researchers;
  • Publish a compilation of good practices to promote the development of laboratories of excellence in Africa.