Research Africa

A warm welcome to University of Johannesburg as a new Research Africa subscriber. Established in 2005, UJ is committed to nurturing citizens and scholars who are anchored in their localities and nations, but who can assert themselves confidently in a world of increasingly interconnected research. The team at Research Africa looks forward to supporting UJ in strengthening their research capacity, and facilitating access to many thousands of funding opportunities, funding news and insights. For more information on how your university or research institute can subscribe to Research Africa, visit info.researchprofessional.com. (Image credit: UJ website)

Season's Greetings from all of us at Research Africa!

Research Africa's Pfungwa Nyamukachi and Emile Bruwer met with various universities and research institutes across Ghana and Nigeria. We are delighted to have many universities across West Africa that are benefitting from their institutional subscription to our world leading funding opportunities and funding news platform, Research Professional.

We are delighted to report that the Top 10 African institutions accessing funding opportunities via Research Professional and thereby benefiting from their institutional subscription to Research Africa in November 2015 were:
1. University of Ibadan (Nigeria) 2. Botho University (Botswana) 3. Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) 4. University of Nairobi (Kenya) 5. University of Benin (UNIBEN) (Nigeria) 6. University of Cape Town (South Africa) 7. Makerere University Official Page(Uganda) 8. University of Ilorin, Kwara State Nigeria 9. Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and 10. University Of Ghana,Legon Research Africa is proud to be connecting the African research world and thereby facilitating development across our continent. Contact us about a subscription for your university or research institute today! For more information on our world leading funding opportunities and funding news platform, Research Professional, visit info.researchprofessional.com

Research Africa is currently exhibiting at the South African Science Forum in Pretoria. Be sure to visit our stand to discuss how your university or research institute can benefit from a subscription to Research Professional, our world leading funding opportunities and funding news platform. Research Africa is proud to be connecting the African research world in order to facilitate development across our continent.

Africa cannot advance without investing in science Hundreds of people descended on the CSIR International Convention Centre for the first Science Forum South Africa, which kicked off in Pretoria today.

Research Africa will be exhibiting at The Science Forum: South Africa – 2015 will take place on 8-9 December at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, South Africa.The 2015 theme is: “Igniting conversations about science.” The Science Forum: South Africa is inspired by events such as ESOF, AAAS, and the Japan Agora.
The key objectives of the Forum are:
- To create a platform for a vibrant debate on the role of science, technology and innovation and society in South Africa;
- To strengthen South Africa’s strategic international science, technology and innovation partnerships;
- To create a platform for senior government leaders, academics, scientists, industry, civil society, and students to interact.
Visit out exhibition stand to learn about how our world leading funding opportunities and funding news platform, Research Professional, can provide you with an edge in the race for research funding. http://www.sfsa.co.za/

Science Forum South Africa | Igniting conversations about science

Research Africa is delighted to be participating in the 9th WARIMA International Conference in Accra, Ghana. The theme for the conference this year is: ''Research and Innovation for Human Development: The
Role of National Institutions in Addressing Threats to Emerging Economies.'' The West African Research and Innovation Management Association (WARIMA) was established in November 2006 as a professional body for research management in the West African sub-region. It operates at institutional and international levels, as well as across the research value chain, from research management to commercialisation of research results. Research Africa is proud to be a key partner of WARIMA and we look forward to ensuring that many West African universities and research institutes will continue to benefit from our world leading funding opportunities and funding news platform, Research Professional.

We are delighted to welcome Kampala International University (KIU) in Uganda as our latest institutional subscriber to Research Africa. We look forward to supporting KIU to access targeted and relevant funding opportunities in order to ensure that KIU can achieve its mission to respond to societal needs by designing and delivering education guided by the principles and values of respect for society, economy and environment and to provide and develop a supportive research environment in which scholars at every stage of their career can flourish. With a subscription to our world leading funding opportunities and funding news platform, Research Professional, KIU now joins a growing community of African higher education institutions that are benefiting from our online e-resource in order to support postgrad students and academics alike. Research Africa continues to go from strength to strength as we connect the African research world in order to facilitate development across our continent. Does your university subscribe to Research Africa? Contact us for more information via [email protected] http://kiu.ac.ug/home/index.php

Kampala International University KIU is a private university in Uganda which has built a name in Uganda's education sector with remarkable resilience.The university is chartered by the government of Uganda as a recognition and acknowledgement of its ability and