Summer University Tany Vao, Madagascar 2022
Global Africa participated in the “Madagascar 2022 Summer University” held in Antananarivo and Tulear from October 24th to November 5th, 2022. The event brought together around a hundred students and researchers from the eight universities of Madagascar. The agenda was divided into two parts: first, the first part of the program, organized in the form of plenary sessions, took place at the educational campus of the University of Ankatso, Antananarivo. On this occasion, the speakers addressed various topics such as the environment, health, climate change, water scarcity, vernacular knowledge, etc. Then, the rest of the program continued in Tuléar, where group work was conducted. The participants were divided into four workshops and worked on the following themes: “Environment, Socio-economic Development, and SDGs: An approach through data from the Makay Rural Observatory (OR-Makay)”, “Evaluation and Protected Areas”, “Ethnoecology in Interdisciplinarity to Address Nature-Society Interactions”, “Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Human-Environment Relationships.” #GlobalAfrica #environment #society #climatechange #tanyvaoMada #TanyVoa2022 #Africa #research #climatechange #tanyvaoMada #TanyVoa2022 #Africa #research #socialsciences
About Global Africa
Global Africa | A scientific journal to revitalize African research. Global Africa is a scientific journal at the core of a capacity-building program for junior researchers, aiming to contribute to the expression, dissemination, and strengthening of research in the social sciences and humanities on the African continent. Program The Global Africa program operates in a context where the African continent represents 13% of the world’s population but contributes less than 3% to scientific publications. Today, while the African researchers elite publish in international journals, the majority still rely on national contexts characterized by local journals and often unappealing university presses. The crisis in higher education in Africa has left the academic community without a viable publishing means or the capacity to produce, promote, and disseminate the results of its researchers at the continental and international levels – an essential condition for amplifying African voices in global debates. In most countries, the allocation of resources between research, teaching, and consultancy activities is skewed against research. This results in multiple and cumulative failures: significant aspects of ongoing political, socio-economic, cultural, and environmental transformations remain unintelligible because they are not conceptualized from within the continent. Teaching practices remain stagnant due to the lack of research. Public policies do not sufficiently rely on reliable data, leading to the continent being primarily understood through external perspectives and, more broadly, its voices remaining largely unheard in international discussions. In addition to these challenges, research is often compartmentalized by discipline, predominantly produced in English or French, and heavily skewed towards male representation. These factors sharply raise questions about its social legitimacy and its integration into society – that is, its ability to identify and address the essential needs of societies and institutions. Partners The ambition of Global Africa is to have a broad impact across the entire African continent through a unifying organizational structure. The program has been co-created by four institutions: LASPAD at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis (Senegal), the Institut of Recherche and Development (France), the International University of Rabat (Morocco) and LASDEL in Niamey-Parakou (Niger-Benin). These institutions jointly steer the program as a consortium. In addition to the four core partner institutions, Global Africa has nine other collaborating organizations: Funding The program is funded with a budget of 2.65 million euros over four years. The main financial support (1.5 million euros) comes from the French Develpment Agency (56 %). Consortium members directly contribute to the program’s funding, accounting for 24%. The remaining funding is generated through revenue from online certification courses and a fundraising strategy. The program’s model has been designed to ensure its sustainability beyond the initial four years of operation. Please contact us for more information about program coordination, the journal, or partnership opportunities.
Call for Applications: Trainers for MOOC Module Production
Global Africa is a project aimed at promoting, disseminating, and strengthening research in the humanities and social sciences on the African continent through a series of activities. At the core of this project is the creation and sustainability of a new journal, Global Africa. It is a scholarly journal that encompasses a capacity-building program for junior researchers, with the ambition of equipping African researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences on the African continent. The Global Africa program operates in a context where the African continent accounts for 13% of the global population but contributes less than 3% to scientific publications. To address these challenges, GA has prioritized the establishment of a training program. As a result, GA has developed a catalog of online certification courses on scientific editing, publishing, and writing in the form of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on epistemology, methods, and techniques in the social sciences. This catalog is the outcome of a study on the market for specialized training in the field of publishing and scientific writing. To follow