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<p>Providing clean energy to urban informal settlements in Africa is a huge challenge. In this story, we follow the joint effort of scientists working across three African countries to produce the knowledge required to get households to adopt clean energy.</p>
28.08.2018
<p>What can we learn about climate change from Cape Town’s water crisis and the use of the transdisciplinary research approach?</p>
28.08.2018
<p>As part of the LIRA 2030 programme’s commitment to support grants awarded to 11 collaborative research projects across Africa in 2018, a group of 22 researchers took part in a week-long set of activities before and during a 3-day scientific conference organized by Future Earth from 9-11 May in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.</p> <p> </p>
18.05.2018
<p>11 projects led by African early career scientists will be supported as part of the second LIRA 2030 Africa call on Advancing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 on cities in Africa.</p>
07.03.2018
<p>Up to eleven collaborative research projects across Africa will receive funding for research that will explore integrated approaches for sustainable urban development in Africa.</p>
05.03.2018
<p>The Scientific Advisory Committee of the LIRA programme will meet next week in Lilongwe, Malawi.</p>
02.02.2018
<p>A 2-day Learning Collaborative Workshop designed to inform participants on science advice for policy making at all levels of government was held in Abuja, Nigeria from 13 to 14 November 2017. Coordinated by the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) in collaboration with the Africa Chapter of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA-Africa), the workshop brought together participants mainly from various Academies of Science in Africa and grantees of the Sida-funded ICSU programme on Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA 2030).</p>
23.11.2017
<p>Following the call for pre-proposals on ‘Advancing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 on cities in Africa’, applications are now open for scientists and non-academic experts to help in reviewing full proposals.</p>
26.09.2017
<p>As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme, 31 representatives of the successful pre-proposals attended a 5-day training workshop on trans-disciplinary (TD) research, which took place on 28 August – 1 September 2017 at the Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda.</p>
04.09.2017
<p>As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme, the International Council for Science (ICSU), in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) will support 10 collaborative research projects across Africa (to the value of up to 90,000 Euro each over two years) that will advance the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 (sustainable cities and communities) in Africa.</p>
27.02.2017