GAP fellow Dr. Morufu Bukola Omigbule has been awarded the prestigious Afox Travel Grant from the University of Oxford.

Building on his fellowship at Gent University, which has fostered institutional collaboration between Obafemi Awolowo University and UGent, Dr. Omigbule aims to investigate ethnonationalist tendencies within Yoruba rituals over the past two decades.

Congratulations Morufu!

In the framework of the Belgium Presidency of the Council of the European Union, we cordially invite you to join our conference "Innovation: a key enabler for sustainable food system transformation in Africa". 

Join us, online or in person for an inspiring debate on how innovation can foster transformation towards more sustainable, healthy and inclusive food systems in Africa!

We invite you to partcipate in the upcoming Primafamed-Workshop (4-5 June 2024) in Nairobi, Kenia, on development of Family Medicine and primary Care Capacity buildng in Africa.

Explore opportunities... for managing natural resources and a better life for all

Tropentag is a trans- and interdisciplinary conference. Following the long tradition of Tropentag, we encourage participants of Tropentag 2024 to contribute to the conference's overarching aim of exploring opportunities for managing natural resources sustainably and improving the quality of life for all individuals and communities.

Tropentag 2024 (TT24) will be organised as a hybrid 'green event' by University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria (Insitute and Cluster for Development Research), in cooperation with ATSAF e.V.

This is an announcement of the upcoming call for a new VLIR-UOS program called "Accelerate".

"Accelerate" represents a pioneering initiative designed to provide policy and implementation support within the VLIR-UOS network, focusing on three priority themes:

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Uptake, Use & Impact
• Higher Education Management

Implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases - GACD)

Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases is an alliance of international funding agencies representing over 80% of the world’s public health research funding and the first collaboration of its kind to specifically address NCDs.

This call specifically targets implementation science to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs*) and/or those in high-income countries (HICs) serving disadvantaged populations.

This call targets researchers who are affiliated with a higher education or research institution based in one of the 37 eligible countries in the Global South and who wish to spend between 1 and 3 months as a visiting researcher at Ghent University in order to support and expand their ongoing research on sustainable development challenges.

The symposiums organised by the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association (GAPSYM) have been trendsetting in the Belgian academic landscape over the last 16 years, in the sense that they provide a unique interdisciplinary forum to showcase academic research taking place in collaboration with and conducted by African-based partners.

This 17th multidisciplinary conference of the AUGent Africa Platform will be co-organised by Ghent University’s International Thematic Network CliMigHealth, which focuses on the nexus between climate change, migration and health(care), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and the Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR).