Transnational cooperation

CAAST-Net Plus -Advancing SubSaharan-EU cooperation in research and innovation for global challenges

CAAST-Net Plus is a network from 26 ministries and research and innovation funding agencies, from Europe and Africa funded by the 7th Framework Programme (2013-2017). Coordinated by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), United Kingdom. The ultimate goal of CAAST-Net Plus is a reinforced bi-regional STI relationship for jointly tackling global societal challenges and contributing to smart, inclusive and sustainable growth of both regions. CAAST-NET Plus objectives are:

To encourage new and diverse multi-stakeholder partnerships that, through research and innovation, tackle the global challenges of health, food security, and climate change that affect Europe and Africa;
To enable better understanding between the public and private sector in Africa and Europe of the link between research and innovation, and to identify and share opportunities for cooperation through networking and communication;
To facilitate exchanges that result in learning and that support formal policy dialogue for more effective research and innovation cooperation.
To disseminate the results to the diversity of research and innovation stakeholders from Europe and Africa.

Selected reports produced by CAAST-NET Plus

Africa-EU Research Collaboration on Food Security: a critical analysis of the scope, coordinations and a scope of findings (2015)
EU-Africa research and innovation cooperation for food and nutrition security: a review of programming experiences and future options (2016)
Africa-EU Research Collaboration on Climate Change: A Critical Analysis of the Scope, Coordination and Uptake of Findings (2014)
Africa-EU Research Collaboration on Health: A Critical Analysis of the Scope, Outputs and Potential Outcomes (2016)
Bibliometric Analyses on EU-Africa Research Co-publications in Health (2017)
Findings and Recommendations for Decision-makers: 1st CAAST-Net Plus Stakeholder Forum “Transferring Knowledge into Solutions: Africa-EU Strategies for Science, Technology and Innovation” (2015)

More key reports here (soon).

Euro-African Networks for science, technology and innovation where FCT participates aiming at The Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES): CSA RINEA e ERA-NET Cofund LEAP-Agri (ERA-NET ERAfrica successor).