Second Call for Partnerships with African Higher Education - PEA 2022

The French National Research Agency (ANR) launches the second call on «Partnerships with the African Higher Education», funded by the French Development Agency (AFD), in the context of the « Bienvenue en France » strategy held by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and Campus France. This actions aims at long-term partnership projects between one or more French Higher Education institutes and an African Higher Education institute, for graduate, master and PhD courses in some given activity sectors.

To foster the development of strategic sectors for African economies, the main targets are:

• to offer African students the possibility of finding in their own countries or regions high-quality formations, since graduate level, to respond to the local socio-economic needs;
• to help actors of the French Higher Education sector in the development of partnerships with their African counterparts ;
• to foster students and teachers mobility between French and African partners.

In a transversal way, projects should favor the access, the participation and the permanence of women in the selected activity sectors.

The applicants must choose between two types of projects with the pre-proposal. The choice is definitive.

The PEA program is limited to the 18 following African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Comores, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Chad and Togo. The call specifies the conditions for applications.

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