Objective
This project seeks to improve research capacity and develop collaboration amongst researchers in Europe and East Africa, and by doing so to contribute to the larger objective of regional integration. The project will enhance integration in the research community in both Europe and East Africa through bringing researchers together in a series of training activities. These activities will focus on two kinds of transborder environment: mountains and Lake Tanganyika. Through this focus on resources which span the borders of the multiple political units of East Africa, the project will contribute directly to public understanding of some of the challenges to regional integration in East African context. The project is organized around four themes, all of which relate to human use and management of these cross border resources: resource management and livelihood sustainability, environmental and climate change, migration and identity and the role of small and medium cities. At the core of the project, five institutions – four European, and one East African – will be brought together; the project will also draw on the skills and knowledge of four university research institutions in Europe, whose staff will take the role of leaders for each of the four themes. All the individuals and institutions involved have substantial experience of work in Africa, and have commitment both to the enhancement of an integrated European research capacity and to the building of research capacity and regional integration in East Africa.
Fields of science
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-SSH-2007-1
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
CSA-CA - Coordination (or networking) actions
Coordinator
31058 Toulouse
France
See on map
Participants (8)
00200 Nairobi
See on map
W10 6LW London
See on map
3080 Tervuren
See on map
7110 Kampala
See on map
75794 Paris
See on map
10691 Stockholm
See on map
D02 CX56 Dublin 2
See on map
95447 Bayreuth
See on map