Leading African and European universities issue joint call for investment in African research universities
ARUA VCs Meet with PLuS Alliance
Four ARUA Universities are currently meeting at King’s College London with the PLuS Alliance (4-5 February) to discuss possible collaboration at an Africa Roundtable.
Final Programme for Second ARUA Conference 2019
Second Biennial Conference
Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities
University of Nairobi
18-20 November 2019
Click here to download the PDF Programme & Schedule of Parallel Sessions
[POSITION FILLED] Vacancy
Project Coordinator: ARUA/UKRI Centres of Excellence Project
ARUA Deputy Vice Chancellors (Research) Meet at Makerere University
A two-day meeting of ARUA Deputy Vice Chancellors has been held at Makerere University. The meeting took place on 4-5 September 2019, and was opened by the Vice Chancellor of Makerere University, Professor Barnabas Nawangwe, who welcomed the participants and exhorted them to appreciate the values and goals of the network.
First for Africa: Wits-IBM to expand quantum computing in Africa
Partnership will accelerate quantum research and drive educational opportunities in quantum computing with African Research Universities Alliance
Wits University is the first African partner on the IBM Quantum Computing (IBM Q) Network and will be the gateway for academics across South Africa and to the 15 universities who are part of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA).
Building capacity and driving research excellence together
African Research Universities Alliance and UK Research and Innovation working together to address the Sustainable Development Goals
In an exciting new international partnership, the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have joined-forces to use their collective knowledge, skills and regional expertise to tackle global challenges such as extreme poverty and disease, fragile states and displacement, gender inequalities and food insecurity.
DVC-Research Meeting, #2 for 2019
The Secretary-General of ARUA has announced the dates for the second meeting of the ARUA DVCs in 2019. The meeting will be hosted by Makerere University in Kampala and is most likely to take place on 4 and 5 September 2019.
ARUA Meets with N8 Universities to Plan Collaboration
More than 120 researchers and research managers from 15 ARUA universities and 8 N8 universities gathered at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research of the University of Ghana on 9-10 May 2018 to consider ways of working together.