CIVIS encourages innovative research and longer-term collaborations between CIVIS member institutions in Europe and strategic partner universities in Africa with the implementation of 17 new programmes!

CIVIS seeks to support joint research among its member institutions and beyond European borders. CIVIS connects 11 research-oriented member universities in Europe with strategic partner universities in Africa, which jointly design educational offers, foster mobility of staff and students, and promote a socially engaged academy.

In that framework, last spring CIVIS invited through a "Seed funding Call for research activities and African-European collaboration", faculty members and researchers to submit their proposals for initiating new collaborative research projects or the preparation of applications for larger research grants. CIVIS’s missions and values are closely connected to major societal challenges, such as the fields of Climate, Environment, Energy, Society, Culture, Heritage, Health, Cities, Spaces, Mobilities and Digital & Technological Transformation which are linked as well to the UN Sustainable development goals.

Within the Seed funding Call for joint research activities, 17 new projects were approved and will be funded from the Call. The new projects that will be launched tackle various societal challenges, have a research dimension and are thematically related to different interdisciplinary areas aiming to establish a longer-lasting collaboration among the participants.

Society, Culture, Heritage

Networking meeting to involve African partners in the BruLau
French and European Travellers in Africa : Cultural perceptions of otherness
Reinterpreting university museum collections: A collaborative digital initiative for decolonization
Advancing Linguistic Research: Exploring Emotions in Discourse through Argumentation, Enonciation and Transfer
of Knowledge
Cultural Shifts Amidst Global Migration: A Public Humanities Initiative
Agents of intercultural exchanges in the Mediterranean area during the African-European Renaissance (XIV-XVII
Century): Arts, Diplomacy, Economics.
Configuring Common Developmental Strategies for a Sustainable Future in the Heritage Management Context. A
Europe–Africa Collaborative Framework in the Contemporary Regional Context

Climate, environment and energy

Membranes for Water Applications (MEFORWATER)
Control and Stability of Grid Connected Power Systems based on Renewable Energies
LIVEMOUNT – Living in the mountains today and in 2050
Field-based, multi-scale, and interdisciplinary approaches to assessing the impacts of atmospheric and soil-borne nano- and micro-plastic particles (NMP) on plant communities

Health

Advances in Medicinal Chemistry: new approaches and targeted drug delivery. Exploring Innovations and
Challenges
One Health and Diganosis Zoonoses – Understanding Importance of Climate Change in Disease Prevalance

Cities, spaces and mobilities

On the tracks of Michel Ecochard
LocalPart: local and translocal African and European traditions of public participation and civic engagement to
prevent and mitigate crises
TRANSREG | Regional climate change adaptation – learning from a transcontinental & transdisciplinary
perspective

Digital and Technological transformation

Culture, Education and Technology: Public History and Heritage through video games

Stay tuned for more information!

Learn more about the Seed funding Call