Kinshasa, July 3rd, 2021 (CPA) .- The Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) organized on July 1stand 2nd, 2021, the first information days of the project to promote research, innovation and digital culture in Central Africa (PRICNAC), in collaboration with its partners « Obreal Global », the Association of African Universities (AUA), the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) as well as the Network of Engineering Experts training in Central Africa and the Great Lakes (REIFAC).
According to the press of Central Africa and the Great Lakes of the AUF, which reported this news to the CPA on Friday, these days will take place in a hybrid format, face-to-face and remotely with on the agenda, the presentation of the project and awareness-raising around the future call for micro-project proposals.
These days aim to present the project as a whole, with particular emphasis on the call for proposals intended to select the micro-projects that will be financed within the framework of the PRICNAC project, a project subsidized within the framework of the CPA Fund for innovation of the Research and Innovation Program of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, with the financial support of the European Union.
The objective of this project is to strengthen research-innovation capacities in the countries of Central Africa by consolidating innovation ecosystems, positive synergies between entrepreneurship, digital technology and innovation policies for development. sustainability and poverty reduction in Central Africa.
The project will select and finance in the countries of intervention, micro-projects falling within its objectives and those of the ACP Innovation Fund. PRICNAC is implemented by AUF with support from Obreal Global, AUA, CAMES and REIFAC.
Organization of the days
These first information days of the PRICNAC project, indicates the source, take place in person in Douala, within the University Institute of Technologies (IUT), and in the French-speaking digital campuses (CNF) of the AUF in Cameroon ( CNF de Ngaoundéré), in Congo (CNF in Brazzaville), in Gabon (CNF in Libreville), in the Central African Republic (CNF in Bangui), in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the Campus numérique de la Francophonie (CNF) in the commune of Gombe in Kinshasa and the CNF in Lubumbashi, Chad (CNF in N’Djamena).
They are free and open to everyone, within the limits of the reception capacities of these different sites.
The PRICNAC project is one of eight projects funded under the CPA Innovation Fund of the Research and Innovation Program of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, with the financial support of the Union European.
AUF is a global network of more than 1,007 higher education, university and research institutions from different countries around the world, it is reported. ACP/NIG
