AAUN Secretariat – (Pretoria) Frans Swanepoel, Desiree Tesner-Smith, Tawana Kupe, (Sydney) John Hearn, Grace Liu, Marjorie Lewis-Jones. Dear AAUN Colleagues and Friends It is with great pleasure that we launch

AAUN Members and Friends are invited to mark calendars for Monday 30 March for the Forum. This will be part of a week of related activities at the University of

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Three keynote speakers addressed the theme Water for Life: Australia Africa Challenges and Solutions in an AAUN forum session on September 2 – which was also filmed as part of

More than 100 hundred leaders from academia, government, business, the diplomatic corps, development agencies and NGOs from across Africa and Australia met in Perth on September 2 to help shape

The Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN) Annual Forum and AGM 2019 will be held on Monday 2 September at the University Club of Western Australia in Perth, Australia. The Forum

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     It is a great pleasure to inform you that the applications for the 2019 AAUN Partnership and Research Development Fund (PRDF) have been reviewed. We received 44 expressions of

       The AAUN Partnership & Research Development Fund (PRDF) offers catalytic grants of an average of $AUD 10,000 to foster partnership in the network, including new members, and

     The 2018 AAUN PRDF funded project “Enabling a food-phosphorus-sanitation sustainability network” held a successful workshop on 29 January 2019 in Blantyre, Malawi. The aim of the workshop was

The University of Mauritius invites applications from suitably qualified candidates (both locally and internationally) for the post of SSR CHAIR OF AFRICAN STUDIES (Job advertisement attached). The SSR Chair of

USTAWI: Mobile-base Information System for Nutrition Driven Agriculture to Combat Hidden Hunger in Africa Hidden Hunger is a challenging health and wellbeing issue in Africa where the population do not

AAUN Steering Group member Hackett Professor Kadambot Siddique, director of The University of Western Australia (UWA) Institute of Agriculture, is the first Australian to be elected fellow of The African

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2017 PRDF ‘Urbanisation and its Impact on Peri-urban Water and Food Security in Africa: Developing Research Collaboration and Capacity Building’ has recently held a successful international workshop in Kampala, Uganda.

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