Mission

Many African universities offer high level teaching, but few of them run research-intensive programs. This results in two gaps:

• African proactive participation to global research and innovation is still limited;
• African contributions to the writing of international norms (e.g., standards, guidelines, ISO, regulations etc.) are still limited.

These gaps are evident in many areas, particularly in sciences and technologies for health technologies and One Health.

Following WHO definition, as health technology we intend any application of organised knowledge and skills to solve health problems. Following the “One Health” approach, the project will span across four interrelated Reference Use Cases (RUCs):

• biomedical engineering,
• medicine and surgery,
• veterinary medicine and animal production,
• nutrition and agriculture

while keeping Ethics and regulatory sciences at the core of all the activities. According to UN best practices, the project promotes the shift from capacity building to capacity strengthening, highlighting that African scholars have capacities, which must not be ignored, but strengthened and aligned with EU ones.