January 01, 2011
ERAfrica

By joining ERAfrica KEF is part of a new international ERA-NET within the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union.
Mattias Larsen, who is currently also managing a research project in India, coordinates KEF’s participation in ERAfrica.
ERAfrica aims to reduce the fragmentation of the European research area by increasing the coordination between national research programmes across European Union member states and associated countries, in close coordination with national research programmes in Africa. The consortium of the project gathers key S&T funding agencies and ministries from Europe and Africa.

Consortium:

• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD - France
• Kommission für Entwicklungsfragen bei der OeAD-GmbH (KEF) - Austria
• Conseil interuniversitaire de la Communauté française de Belgique/Commission universitaire pour le Développement CIUF/CUD - Belgium
• Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research MHESR Egypt
• Työ -ja elinkeinoministeriö (Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy) TEM - Finland
• International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research PT- DLR - Germany
• Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung BMBF - Germany
• Ministry of Science and Technology MOST-KE - Kenya
• Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia FCT - Portugal
• Department of Science and Technology DST - South Africa
• Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MICINN - Spain
• Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF - Switzerland
• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBITAK - Turkey