Research

Since 2018, the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities have established a close partnership, at the heart of which has been a joint appreciation that we can – and must – address global challenges affecting the African and European continents much more effectively if we develop new, long-term partnerships based on equity.

ARUA on November 3, 2022, launched the second ARUA Performance Report under Phase II of the ARUA-Carnegie Data Gathering and Benchmarking Project. The University of Cape Town hosted the launch event.

Imperial has launched a wide-ranging new seed fund for research and education projects with partners in Africa.

Application now open for the next competition of the
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP)

The Africa Strategic Research and Education Partnerships Fund aims to help kick-start new, innovative research and education collaborations that might not otherwise be pursued. The Fund promotes and supports early-stage collaboration among academics, researchers and students at Imperial,  the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and/or members of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA).

Africa’s future will be determined by the effort that the region makes in pursuit of Agenda 2063 of the African Union and how such effort is amplified in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The effort must be driven by the availability and application of new knowledge in the production of goods and services, as well as in the governance and management of societies. This is what the development and application of new technologies and innovation are all about.

The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) has launched its Strategic Plan for the next five (5) years (i.e., from 2022 to 2027). The Plan, which was launched in Accra, took place at the end of a three (3) day Capacity Building Workshop for Institutional Planning & Research Managers of ARUA member universities.

This Early-Career Research Fellowship is being initiated by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support a total of thirteen (13) Early-Career Research Fellows to undertake globally competitive research at the ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoEs).

We are delighted to announce the launch of the African Academy for Migration Research (AAMR) led by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence in Migration and Mobility at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), Wits University.

This document presents findings on the analysis of Phase One of the data benchmarking study of ARUA universities, shedding light on their research profiles for the period 2015-2017. The study was funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the report was written by Professor Gerald Wangende-Ouma of University of Pretoria.