CLIFOOD at the Network Meeting on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Centres of African Excellence Programme

10-13 October 2018 in Berlin, Germany

The FSC representative and coordinator of the German-Ethiopian Bilateral SDG Graduate School Tetyana Tonkoshkur attended the Network Meeting in Berlin on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Centres of African Excellence Programme, initiated by the Federal Foreign Office and the DAAD. With the African Excellence Programme the DAAD helps African universities to establish centres of excellence, improve the quality of the education they provide, and increase their research capacities, thus enabling future decision-makers in Africa to be trained in line with international standards.

During the Network Meeting the Centres of African Excellence came together to reflect on achievements of development cooperation and the role of education sector. Participants of the meeting underlined the necessity of Excellence cooperation between Germany and Africa. The South African Minister of Higher Education Naledi Pandor spoke of the ten Centres of Excellence with different orientations as a “foundation of enormous benefit”. The 10 years of cooperation within the African Excellence Programme proved to be successful in terms of sustainable, internationally competitive academic training.

The FSC is also active in Africa since 2009 with its mission in education, research, capacity strengthening and knowledge transfer and reinforces its cooperation with implementation of the German-Ethiopian Bilateral SDG Graduate School CLIFOOD. In this regard the Network Meeting provided to the FSC an opportunity to extend its network in Africa via establishing contacts to the Centres of African Excellence.

Read more about the Network Meeting.