ZSI sees its role as supporting strategic cooperation between the two continents of Africa and the European Union through research and social innovation. It is firmly based in the policy background (see for example http://www.africa-eu-partnership.org/). Taking advantage from its global interconnectivity and particular expertise in the field of social innovation and international RTDI cooperation, ZSI provides competence to contribute to EU-Africa partnership projects.
During the 7th EU Framework Programme, ZSI was a partner in the CAAST-Net Plus project, which allowed to establish partnerships with stakeholders across the continent. Furthermore, cooperation with South Africa was strengthened in the BILAT project ESASTAP 2020 (until 2019). Cooperation is being continued in the frame of the International Service Facility (Horizon 2020) and the LEAP-RE programme, the Long-Term Joint EU-African Union Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy (until 2025). We are also happy to partner with African organisations in projects such as STEP-CHANGE, implementing citizen science initiatives together with our partners in Uganda or discussing in UNTANGLED with our partners in South Africa the impacts of technological transformations, globalisation and demographic change on employment, inequality and work. Further work also addresses digital innovation hubs and maker spaces in Africa.
Ansprechperson: M.A. Gorazd A. Weiss
Relevante Artikel:
Kooperationspartner
- Action for Rural Women's Empowerment
- Academy of Sciences of South Africa
- Technology Innovation Agency South Africa
- National Research Foundation South Africa
- University of Cape Town
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Projekte
- International Advocacy for the Strategic Alignment of MSCA Cooperation Mechanisms in Key Partner Countries and Regions
- Mobilizing Austrian Vocational Training Know-How in Africa
- African European Maker Innovation Ecosystem
- Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy
- Science Transformation in EuroPe through Citizens involvement in HeAlth, coNservation and enerGy rEsearch
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Publikationen
- Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020
- The EU’s global response to the COVID-19 crisis with a focus on the Eastern Neighbourhood and Africa
- D2.3 What it takes to do science diplomacy
- State-of-the-Art Report on Science Diplomacy
- Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation
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Veranstaltungen
- S4D4C Final Networking conference
- STI-OUTREACH TO AFRICA
- ESASTAP2020 event on EU-South Africa R&I cooperation
- ICT 2018: Imagine Digital – Connect Europe
- CAAST-Net Plus workshop on the role of Africa’s Regional Economic Communities in EU-Africa collaboration in science, technology and innovation.
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