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2016-03-04 |
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AFRICALICS NEWSLETTER: MARCH HIGHLIGHTS |
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Dear friends and members of AfricaLics network,
AfricaLics has been tasked with research capacity building activities with a vision of seeing African countries developing and utilizing high quality research, conducted by African researchers as well as to enable more informed policy decisions to be made relating to the use of STI for economic and social development by business practitioners, civil society and policymakers in the public sector.
We are pleased to bring you an update on AfricaLics activities.
Highlights of AfricaLics Upcoming Events
The 4th AfricaLics PhD Academy will be held at École Supérieure de Commerce de Tunis (ESCT), from 21st March to 2nd April, 2016. The purpose of the PhD Academy is to stimulate awareness of policy and management issues related to the field of research. The Academy will host over 30 PhD students from across Africa. The Academy brings together frontier researchers in innovation and development and innovation management from around the world to provide lectures and mentor the PhD students. The topics of the lectures will cover specific issues within innovation studies and economic development and innovation management as well as research methods and innovation policy.
The sessions will include the following activities:
Lectures by senior researchers on areas ranging from research methodologies to the latest theories and empirical research in the fields of innovation, innovation management and development studies.
Presentations by Doctoral students of their work with feedback from the senior scholars facilitating at the event.
More information can be found here
AfricaLics conference: The next AfricaLics conference is scheduled for late 2017; the call for papers will be posted in late 2016 on the AfricaLics website.
Increasing awareness on Innovation and Development: These include:
Seminar Series on Innovation and Development. Details on topics and speakers will be updated on the website as soon as this is available.
Innovation and development/problem-based learning training and targeted dissemination activities about AfricaLics’ research capacity building experiences. These are subject to availability of funds.
Upcoming Globelics and other regional LICs events
The 3rd Indialics international conference will be held at the Center for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum, Kerala in India from 16th to 18th March, 2016. Indialics is the India chapter of Globelics.
The Conference will focus a number of thematic areas which includes:
Innovation system for inclusive and sustainable development of agriculture, including plantation crops.
Industry studies on innovation, including the use of new technologies like ICT, for sustainable competitiveness and inclusive development in manufacturing inter alia through employment generation, value addition, moving up the global value chain, internalizing externalities along with development of low carbon energy sources.
Institutional, organizational and governance innovations for building inclusive development with focus on health, education, gender and other social issues.
More information can be found here
The 11th Globelics academy will be held at Tshwane University from 20th June to 2nd July, 2016. The aim of this Academy is to support the training of PhD students from different parts of the world and who are writing theses on issues related to innovation systems. For more information, please visit the Academy homepage here
The 14th International Globelics Conference will take place on October 12-15th, 2016 in Bandung City, Indonesia. The conference will bring together innovation scholars from all parts of the world and from different disciplines to enhance the quality of innovation studies in relation to development and growth in the context of globalization and accelerating pace of change. The conference will combine presentation of research papers in parallel tracks with poster presentation, panel discussions and plenary lectures. Important dates and more information will be available here.
Ongoing AfricaLics activities
Following the selection process for the second round of applications for the 2016 PhD Visiting Fellows cohort in mid-late 2015, another five PhD students have arrived at Aalborg University in early February 2016. More on this activity can be found here.
AfricaLics PhD Scholars at Aalborg University. From left: Martin Kangethe (Kenya), Monica Addison (Ghana), Musambya Mutambala (Tanzania), Caleb Muyiwa (Nigeria) and Herbert Wamalwa (Kenya).
Highlights of past activities, 2015
The Second AfricaLics International Conference was held on 17th-19th November 2015 at University of Rwanda, Kigali with the theme of ‘Unpacking systems of innovation for sustainable development in Africa’. The conference drew over 220 participants. 57 research papers were selected for presentation out of 110 full paper submissions. Papers were selected through a double blind peer review process. Additionally nine posters were presented. Twenty-eight other scholars spoke on the event. Plenary and special session presentations are available here.
2nd AfricaLics International conference group photo
AfricaLics Secretariat, on the behalf of the AfricaLics network, would like to thank scholars who reviewed papers and in so doing ensure presentation of high quality papers.
2015 also saw Moi University, Kenya host the 3rd AfricaLics PhD Academy, which took place on 2nd to 13th of March 2015 at Moi University’s Mombasa campus. 28 students, the majority of whom were in their second and third years of PhD study at the time of the Academy participated in the Academy. Over 30 AfricaLics members facilitated the event. During the Academy, a one day open symposium on the theme: “Innovation and development: the challenges and opportunities facing Kenya and Africa in general” was held to officially open the Academy and provide an opportunity for the general public to participate in the event and hear some of the ‘state of the art’ on innovation and development. Over 120 people participated in this event.
Additionally a PhD supervisors training was conducted at the Mombasa PhD Academy. A PhD supervision handbook in innovation and development has been developed by the AfricaLics Secretariat as a result of feedback received during this training and other events. The handbook can be accessed here.
2015 also saw the first batch of AfricaLics PhD Visiting Fellows visit Aalborg University for the pilot PhD sandwich model. Six students arrived in Aalborg University in early 2015 and remained there for around five months. The pilot programme included a workshop with the PhD students’ supervisors to discuss ways forward with the PhD sandwich model programme. This workshop was held in April 2015 with four PhD supervisors physically present and two others taking part remotely by email and Skype communications with their students and the students’ mentors at Aalborg University.
From left: Abdi Yuya (visiting PhD fellow), Arne Wangel, Ann Njeri Kariuki (visiting PhD fellow), prof. John Kihoro and Prof. Daniel Kitaw
AfricaLics Secretariat participated at the meeting of the representatives of the regional lics (Lalics, Asialics, Medalics, AfricaLics, Indialics, Cicalics and Eurolics) that took place in Copenhagen from May 20th to 21st 2015. During the meeting there was an agreement that each Lic has a unique approach to Innovation and Competence Building and therefore there is a lot that they can learn from each other.
AfricaLics held three Innovation and Development Seminar Series in 2015. The first of the year’s seminar was held on 7th May 2015 with the theme focusing on Nanotechnology, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainability. The second and the third seminars of the year were held on the 23rd July and 11th December, focusing on the opportunity climate change provides to the private sector and child-centered innovation for impact, respectively. Two of the seminars were live web-streamed and uploaded on YouTube. The videos can be accessed here
A Writeshop and Grants Management Workshop was held from 24th to 28th August 2015 at the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Pretoria, South Africa. This was held for researchers involved in the AfricaLics funded small research and book projects. A total of 26 people from six research groups participated in the program. As follow up to this workshop, an AfricaLics Small Research and Book Projects Dissemination and Next Steps Workshop was held on the 20th November at the University of Rwanda, Kigali. During this workshop, five research groups presented their major research outputs, reflected on the challenges they faced and discussed next steps. Over 23 members from active research projects attended together with seven external scholars who provided feedback on research project plans.
Writeshop and Grants Management Workshop underway
The AfricaLics Secretariat team developed an original research paper, reflecting the lessons learnt from the three years of research capacity-building efforts by AfricaLics. The paper outlines recommendations for university capacity building programs more generally as well as for those trying to promote innovation training. The paper was presented at ‘The Transformation of Research in the South: policies and outcomes conference in Paris in January 2016. It is expected that the paper will be published together with other papers from the conference in 2016 or will be submitted for journal publication independently by the authors. Slides of the presentation can found here.
With Kind Regards,
AfricaLics Secretariat.
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