Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Thursday, October 22, 2020

WEBINAR: Open Science Global North- South Partnerships: What Exists for African Researchers?

22 October 2020.
 Open Science Global North- South Partnerships: What Exists for African Researchers? 

  • TCC Africa is the first African-based training centre to teach effective communication skills to scientists
  • TCC Africa is an award winning Trust, established as a non-profit entity in 2006 and is registered in Kenya. 
  •  TCC Africa provides capacity support in improving researchers output and visibility through training in scholarly and science communication.
As part the celebration of #OpenAccessWeek.
  • What kind of Global North- South partnerships and opportunities exist in promoting Open Science.
  • What is the Association of African Universities’ role in supporting Open Science?
  • Introduction to Dimensions.ai an Open Access research discovery solution (this comes complete with publications, funding and patent data, clinical trials and journals)

    "For years, leading funders have been using the extensive Dimensions grant database to understand global funding trends and drive decision-making. Now, with Dimensions covering the entire research lifespan from funding through outputs to impact, as a funder you have a powerful data set to draw on when developing evidence-based science policy. You can also use Dimensions to monitor the impact of those policies."
Speakers: 
  • Daryl Naylor, Sales Director, EMEA at Digital Science

    Research4Life provides institutions in lower income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content. It improves teaching, research and policy-making in health, agriculture, the environment and other life, physical and social sciences.

  • Gwiranai Danha, Researcher and Lecturer at Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST)
  • Abednego Corletey, Association of African Universities (AAU) - Kwame Nkrumah'​ University of Science, Ghana

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