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November 17, 2023
Finland-Africa Academic Celebrations: Research Day and Academic Night in focus
27 and 28 October 2023 marked a remarkable milestone in the history of academic events dedicated to Africa in Finland....
November 13, 2023
African Research Day highlighted the importance of impactful collaborations
The Collaboration in Research and Education seminar, which took place at the University of Turku at the end of October,...
October 31, 2023
From Recovery to Resilience: Sustainable Pathways for Transforming Tourism
Photo by Aapo Lunden Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation (FAPI) supported the organizing of a Doctoral School Workshop and Conference on “Recovery...
October 9, 2023
Last chance to sign up for the African Research Day
The sign up has ended. You can enquire free spots from fapi-coordinator@utu.fi We are happy to welcome you to African Research...
October 9, 2023
Join the thematic meetings to discuss the cooperation in your interest areas
FAPI aims to create sustainable partnerships in research, education, as well as in co-creative innovation projects between Finnish and African...
October 9, 2023
FAPI General Meeting will follow with more thematic meetings
The Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation (SDG9) network had its General Meeting online on 28 September. 20 attendees from various member...
September 28, 2023
Science Forum South Africa is held from 6 to 8 December 2023
The Science Forum South Africa will be held from 6 to 8 December 2023 at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria,...
September 11, 2023
African Research Day in October: the sign up has started
We are happy to welcome you to African Research Day Live Event taking place in Turku on 27 October. The event...
August 31, 2023
Collaboration in Research and Education seminar will take place in October
We are happy to welcome you to the African Research Day on 27 October 2023! Collaboration in Research and Education...
June 30, 2023
Please save the dates for the following FAPI events in autumn term
Dear members of FAPI, Please save the dates for the following FAPI events in autumn term: FAPI – Finland-Africa Platform...
May 29, 2023
Join SANORD Webinar – Trends in Internationalisation: A critical perspective from the South
Internationalisation remains an important element of higher education collaboration. It is motivated by a variety of political, economic, sociocultural, and...
May 12, 2023
Africa Day 2023
The JYU Africa Networks is hosting the Africa Day celebration event at JYU. For participants UTU it is possible to...
April 6, 2023
SAVE the DATES – African Research Day and African Academic Night will be held on 27–28 October
Finland Africa Platform for Innovation (SDG9) organises the African Research Day event together with other Africa-themed global networks on October...
March 17, 2023
SANORD Conference will take place in September – deadline for abstract submissions 15 April
2023 SANORD Conference will be organized on 20-22 September 2023 INN University, Hamar campus. The deadline for abstract submission is...
January 27, 2023
Multidisciplinary Collaboration with African Partners on Sustainability
The University of Turku’s seed-funded projects support long-term research, education and innovation collaborations between Finnish and African partners on issues...
December 28, 2022
Collaboration on Education and Teaching in the Global South
Two seed-funded projects focusing on education and teaching facilitate cooperation with partners in Africa and India. Research on learning and...
November 28, 2022
Seed-Funded Projects Strengthen Health Technology and Training Collaboration with Africa
New seed-funded projects promote joint activities between Finnish and African partners in health research, education and innovation. Creating and maintaining...
September 21, 2022
Sustainability Engineering for students of UniPID member universities
The Sustainability Engineering module by the University of Turku (UTU) gives a theoretically sound, competence-oriented and ethical foundation that engineers...
April 12, 2022
Achieving social justice through social innovation and entrepreneurship: Call for chapter contributions and mobility
The Åbo Akademi University and the University of Jyväskylä networks of the Finland-Africa Platform for Innovation (SDG 9) jointly call...
March 30, 2022
Training for Responsible Global Academic Partnerships
The Finnish University Partnership for International Development – UniPID and the Finnish higher education institutions’ Global networks are hosting a...
November 4, 2021
A Successful Webinar on Funding Opportunities for Collaboration with Africa
A Zoom webinar on funding opportunities was organized to share information and facilitate collaborations between academics and other actors in...
October 29, 2021
SANORD-FAPI Webinar on Innovations for Sustainable Development
On the 24th of August, FAPI and the Southern African-Nordic Centre SANORD organized a joint webinar around the theme of...