PolyCIVIS Conference Dakar 2025

23 to 26 April 2025

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Date
23 to 26 April 2025
PolyCIVIS is delighted to announce the 2025 Conference, set to take place in Dakar, in Senegal, hosted by Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. This important 4-day event, between the 23rd- 25th April, will convene leaders from the higher education, policy and research sectors to explore and address the challenges and opportunities presented by the polycrisis.

The conference will delve into the impact of polycrisis and its ongoing implications on policy, higher education and research. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear from esteemed speakers, engage in dynamic panel discussions, and participate in thought-provoking conversations. 

The event is designed to foster collaboration and highlight innovative solutions poised to better understand the  impacts of simultaneous major societal crises that challenge the world in the form of a polycrisis.

Find out more about the conference 

Opening ceremony:

- Prof. Idrissa Sarr, PolyCIVIS Scientific Coordinator for UCAD & Director of Centre universitaire de Recherche et de Formation aux Technologies de l’Internet.
- Prof. Anne Weyembergh, PolyCIVIS Poject Director & Vice-Rector for External Relations and Cooperation at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
- Prof. Alioune Badara Kandji, Rector of Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Sénégal
- Prof. Daouda Ngom, Ministre de l’Environnement et de la Transition Ecologique, Sénégal.

Agora Forum Roundtables:

Facilitators: Andrew Bradley (Polycrisis and Policy WP, PolyCIVIS) and Faith Mabera (Polycrisis and Policy WP, PolyCIVIS)

Agora Forum Panel Discussion:

Panellists:

  • Prof. Constantinos Cartalis, Environmental and Climate Physics and Director of the Laboratory of Environmental Physics-Meteorology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • Prof. Karin Backstrand, Environmental Social Science, Stockholm University
  • Dr. Bockline Bebe (Egerton), Livestock Production Systems, Egerton University, Kenya
  • Dr. Kamatara Kanifa, Lecturer and Animal Scientist, Makerere University, Uganda

The Panel will be moderated by: Dr. Mamadou Bodian, Coordinator for Fulbright Fellows in West Africa at the West Africa Research Center (WARC) and a researcher at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar.

If you have any questions, please email: polycivis@ulb.be