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Ahead of the EU-AU summit (17-18 February 2022), sixteen leading universities in Africa urge African governments and the African Union (AU) to support the development of Clusters of Excellence and the expansion of research infrastructure in African universities, endorsing the joint initiative of The Guild and ARUA.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the statement, the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) appeal to African leaders to recognise the outstanding potential of Africa\u2019s public universities in strengthening Africa\u2019s knowledge society. The signatories of the statement highlight the need for a strong research ecosystem in Africa if the continent is to undertake a structural and sustainable transformation, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Vice-Chancellors and Rectors call for the identification and development of interdisciplinary Clusters of Excellence at African universities which would provide long-term academic career prospects, strengthen South-South and equitable South-North research partnerships, and address key strategic areas of Africa\u2019s transformation.<\/p>\n The Guild strongly supports the initiative led by ARUA, with whom The Guild has jointly advocated for the funding of more Clusters of Excellence on the African continent.<\/p>\n Jan Palmowski<\/strong>, Secretary-General of The Guild, said: \u00ab\u00a0The ARUA statement articulates persuasively how African universities can strengthen their contribution to global knowledge production, and support the transformation of their regions, through cutting-edge interdisciplinary research clusters strengthening inter-African collaboration, and developing equitable north-south partnerships. Strengthening African universities through competitive clusters of excellence must now become a central pillar of the new AU-EU strategic partnership, as advocated by ARUA, The Guild, and twenty European Rectors\u2019 conferences.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n Read the\u00a0ARUA statement<\/a>\u00a0and see the full response from The Guild\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ahead of the EU-AU summit (17-18 February 2022), sixteen leading universities in Africa urge African governments and the African Union (AU) to support the development of Clusters of Excellence and the expansion of research infrastructure in African universities, endorsing the joint initiative of The Guild and ARUA. In the statement, the African Research Universities Alliance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cestaf.centre.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}