Deadline- 20 APRIL 2012
Countries/Region- AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN and PACIFIC Group of States
The Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (CPA) implementation strategy, endorsed by AMCOST III Mombasa 2007, calls upon the African Union commission (AUC) to identify innovative ways that will foster the implantation of the CPA and to ensure more participation and involvement of the African Scientists and Institutions in the CPA implementation efforts.
The AUC – Human Resources Science and Technology (HRST) Department will structure, launch and implement public calls for research proposals at the African continent level with the main aim to strengthen the research capacity of the African infrastructures by consolidating, sharing and networking their accumulated asset of scientific knowledge. The AUC-HRST will be responsible to structure and implement the whole research selection process (identification, evaluation, contracting and monitoring) during the three year project. This experience will allow HRST Dpt accumulating the necessary knowledge asset to be further developed in a future African research framework programme.
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