Carleton Advances Research Collaborations in Africa
Carleton University’s efforts to strengthen overall engagement with Africa took a significant step toward identifying priorities and opportunities for collaboration when a delegation from Carleton met with senior leaders and researchers from several African universities in South Africa in late September.
The partnership building trip by Carleton President Wisdom Tettey, African Indigenous Knowledge Research Network (AIKRN) founder and principal investigator Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Vice-Provost (Academic and Global Learning) David Hornsby included stops at seven South African universities and a pair of MOU signings to strengthen and advance bilateral collaborations.
Specific Areas of Collaboration
Carleton’s meetings with South African universities included conversations about specific areas in which the institutions can collaborate and action items to follow up on in the months ahead.
At the University of the Witwatersrand, quantum sensors and telecommunications were discussed, as were physics, geosciences, critical minerals and the potential for educational exchanges.
The agenda at the University of Johannesburg included food waste, food security and botany, as well as opportunities for student mobility within Africa.
Carleton’s delegation at the University of the Witwatersrand
Talks with the University of Pretoria ranged from Indigenous medicines and environmental justice to heritage studies and artificial intelligence.
Carleton’s meeting with the University of KwaZulu-Natal explored ideas for sustainable innovation and youth empowerment in areas such as health care, food systems, restorative justice and climate resilience.