We would like to thank both the speakers, for granting our audience an insight into their forward-looking cooperation projects, and the participants for joining the

Virtual Symposium on African-European Cooperation in Higher Education, which took place on 3 May 2023.

The event aimed to connect African and European higher education institutions to foster African-European cooperation in higher education. Funding programmes such as Erasmus + and other programmes with a special focus on Africa were presented.

Nearly 150 representatives, both from African and European higher education institutions, participated in the event. The number of participants in the parallel sessions was quite stable with 50-70 attendees per session. We noticed that only few participants switched between parallel sessions, which speaks to the high interest of the audience in the topic and presentation of the projects.

Short introduction on Erasmus+ funding opportunities

Claire Herrmann, European Commission, Unit EAC.C3 International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture

 

“GIJ-NLA Erasmus+ mobility exchange: Student experience and future prospects”

Mari Sagulin, Head of International Relations

Terje Skjerdal, Professor, Journalism

NLA University College, Norway

African partners: Ghana Institute of Journalism + University of Professional Studies, Accra

 

“Networking through Erasmus Activities”

Masika M. James, Senior Administrator, Centre for International Programmes and Collaborations

Kenyatta University, Kenya

European partner: Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania

 

“Building Capacity for online Tuition in Ghana”

Prof. Benjamin Ghansah, Associate Professor of Computer Science

University of Education, Winneba, Ghana

Christopher Yarkwah, PhD, Lecturer in Mathematics Education

University of Cape Coast, Ghana

European partner: Tampere University, Finland

 

“C-CHART: A common cyber-physical platform for modelling cost efficient human centered robotics applied in smart manufacturing”

Prof. Eng. Jean Bosco Byiringiro (PhD, Reg. Eng.), Director, Siemens Mechatronics Certification Centre at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Coordinator, DeKUT and French Universities Collaboration

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology

European partner: University Bourgogne Franche Comté, France

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