On 14 March 2025, the Federal Ministry of Education of Ethiopia presented its first PhD competency Framework to all its public universities. 

It aims to ensure that post-graduate education is rigorous, relevant, and aligned with both academic and professional expectations. It was developed and validated by a VLIR-UOS Network coordinated by Ghent University

Plan International Belgium, çavaria and ARGO-CCGD invite you to participate in a series of seminars addressing the critical theme of gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights in international cooperation.

These events aim to provide practical knowledge, foster dialogue, and promote structural changes to promote gender equality and LGBTQI+ Inclusion in policies and programmes.

The University of Bern, The Guild, and SwissCore are jointly organizing a Research and Innovation Briefing on ‘Africa – Europe 360° cooperation based on equitable R&I partnerships: role and contribution from Switzerland’.

This event will take a closer look on the Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE) launched by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities and how this initiative contributed to creating equitable partnerships. Furthermore, leading scientists will present their initiatives, achievements and challenges faced while engaging in international cooperation.

This Community Talks will focus on possible solutions for two major problems affecting the region of Mombasa and, by extension, Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa.

• The first problem to be addressed is the use of fossil fuels, such as wood and LPG, as cooking sources;
• The second issue concerns waste management, specifically organic waste from local marketplaces.

Het Afrikaanse continent groeit zowel in politiek als in economisch belang. Tegelijk wordt 1 op 5 mensen er geconfronteerd met honger. Een van de grootste vraagstukken daarbij is hoe we voedselzekerheid vergroten en landbouwers weerbaar maken tegen klimaatverandering, zonder schade aan klimaat en biodiversiteit. 

Dit evenement focust daarom op de inzet van innovatieve technologieën voor duurzame voedselsystemen in Afrika.

This doctoral course examines the legacy of the Bandung Conference as a geopolitical movement, a historical moment, and a critical trope for analyzing contemporary global events and South-South relations.

In this three-day intensive, multidisciplinary program, participants will have the opportunity to explore the significance of the Bandung Conference, engage with critical debates that cluster around it, and examine how it provides a framework for studying decolonization.

Ghent University is organizing an online free-of-charge Master Class in three modules, open for Ghent University staff, or for postdoctoral fellows who have the support of a Ghent University supervisor to apply with Ghent University as their Host Institution.

These interactive training days focus on proposal preparation for the 2025 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships call.

Tropentag is an annual international conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development. Tropentag 2025 will take place at the University of Bonn and invites all scientists, students, and experts addressing topics related to environmental management, agricultural production, forestry, fisheries, food and nutrition sovereignty. Young scientists are particularly encouraged to present their research projects and results.

Africa might be construed as the centre of the world historically. More than other continents, it has been the ground for earliest waves of human evolution. As the most diverse continent on the planet, with an ecosystem, biodiversity, and genetic variability, Africa, in a sense, contains the world within it, and the world around it simultaneously contains it.

These dual dynamics and all the possibilities and tensions they engender are what we aim to capture with this conference's theme: Globalised Africa - Africa as the microcosm of the globe and Africa within the global order. Globalised Africa dispels the monolithic narratives of a homogeneous Africa as a country. It also examines Africa's presence and impact on the world and its history.

The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences will organize its sixth Theme Day on Monday 1 December 2025. The goal of this conference is to allow researchers, who are active in overseas countries, to meet each other, whatever their specialization, but also to let them know about the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences and its activities (www.kaowarsom.be).