Dear Colleagues

Greetings from the team at Research Africa!

It was indeed a great pleasure for our COO, Ms Karen Bruns, to have met with all of you during the SARIMA workshop and subsequent meetings in Mauritius last week.

I would like to share with you a brief video clip which highlights the work that we at Research Africa are doing across the African continent in order to support and facilitate access to research and development funding opportunities for African institutions.

Click here to download the Research Africa YouTube video.

We certainly look forward to partnering with you and fellow colleagues in Mauritius as we seek to connect the African research world to the global knowledge economy in order to facilitate advancement. An institutional subscription to Research Africa, accessed via www.research-africa.net will ensure that you and your affiliated institution will begin to benefit from the pre-filtered and well-presented information on thousands of current funding opportunities available to African scholars, researchers, think tanks and innovation and development practitioners.

Remember, in order to keep abreast of relevant funding opportunities and to give your institution/ research council adequate time to apply for targeted funding, speak to us about setting up automated e-mail alerts on Research Professional Africa today. To find out more about a customised subscription  to Research Professional Africa, contact our dedicated customer care consultants via e-mail at info@research-africa.net, call Shaun / Pfungwa on 27 (0)21 447 5484, join our group on Facebook, follow us on Twitter , link to our page on LinkedIn or subscribe to our channel on YouTube

We are also able to offer your institution a complimentary 3 week trial of the platform so that you're able to experience for yourself the key features and benefits of the platform. Research Professional Africa is proud to be the world leading platform on funding opportunities and funding news as we continue to connect the African research world to enable development.

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Kind Regards,

Shaun Stuart
Research Africa
Marketing & Customer Care Manager

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Research Africa

 At the SARIMA workshop last week, the overseas delegates gave an overview of a database that tracks external funds for the African Continent. It is called Research Africa.

Research Africa is the only publication to comprehensively track research policy across Africa’s capital cities and universities, providing detailed coverage of research-related issues. Compiled by an experienced editorial staff in Cape Town, South Africa, Research Africa is published online with a thorough, weekly digest of research policy news from all over the continent.Research Africa offers comprehensive, global coverage of news about science, technology and innovation policies, and the use of research to provide solutions to Africa’s development needs. It is also the definitive source of information about sponsors of African science and development research funding programmes, and brings you details of all their calls for applications for funding.

External Funding Workshop

Some 30 research managers and researchers from research institutions in Mauritius gathered this morning at the R. Burrenchobay Lecture Theatre at the University of Mauritius (UoM) for a two-day training workshop (12 and 13 June 2012) on Increasing external funding for research. Prof S. Facknath, Assoc Prof A. Ruggoo and Mr. K. Boodhoo represented the Faculty of Agriculture.
The event is organised by the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) in collaboration with the Consultancy and Contract Research Centre of the UoM.

The SARIMA works towards the promotion of best practices in management and administration of research and innovation in the SADC region. Its objectives are to raise awareness on the value of a strong research and innovation system and the contribution it can make to economic and social development as well as promote appropriate national and institutional policies supporting research and innovation. The Association also endeavours to bolster African science technology and innovation, including addressing the asymmetries in access to, and diffusion of, knowledge between North and South.