Day 2 of AU-EU Innovation Agenda Stakeholder event in #Nairobi #AUEU The importance of #OpenScience 🇰🇪 🇪🇺

I truly believe that Equity must be at the heart of the #AUEU #InnovationAgenda . #OpenScience can be an important element, but for this we need to embrace the challenges and opportunities together! Great to exchange views with colleagues from Europe and Africa.

Round up of day 1 at AU-EU Innovation Agenda Stakeholder event in #Nairobi #AUEU Great meeting🇰🇪 🇪🇺

How will we implement the draft #AUEU #InnovationAgenda together? Kick off to Nairobi Innovation Agenda Stakeholder Event. Great to be here with Laura Royer, Paul garside University of Glasgow as well as Emmanuel Adu-Donso ARUA and Sibu Moyo Stellenbosch University EUScience&Innovation🇪🇺

.Vincenzo Lorusso & #LudoviSeke presenting the results of the #AUEU #InnovationAgenda 's consultation. Crucial takeaway ➡️ respondents massively endorsed the IA objective 'Strengthen people, communities & institutions' - focusing on the R&I ecosystem + capacity-building will be key

Attending the AU-EU Innovation Agenda stakeholder event in #Nairobi Great to meet Dr Oti
- Boateng new executive director of African Academy of Sciences African Academy of Sciences Anton Muscatelli Rachel Sandison 🇰🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Launching ARUA Profiles Report, Anton Muscatelli emphasises the importance of
👉collaborative partners working together for the long term
👉equity in how we work together
👉recognise that the vast majority of answers to our problems will come from Africa! University of Glasgow

As I step down today from the Deans role & retire from University of Glasgow I wish to thank everyone I have met all over Africa & Middle East in the last few years. To all my colleagues at UofG it has been an honour to have worked with you. Thanks #TeamUofG

This is tremendous news! Huge congrats to University of Glasgow #TeamUofG - we rank 13th in the world and 2nd in the UK in the QS World University Rankings’s new Sustainability Rankings! This is testament to our extraordinary people and world-changing impact. #Sustainability #WorldChangingGlasgow

Excited to soon welcome global partners from across HEIs, industry, NGOs and government to University of Glasgow for a three day summit co-hosted with Times Higher Education to discuss and debate collective solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges - and there’s still time to join us!

Huge Congratulations to our Centre Director Andy Waters who has just won this Discovery Award. Truly a world leader in his area of research 🌍

Richly deserved, congratulations

Fantastic result for University of Glasgow in the World University Rankings - up 4 places to 82nd; 10th in the UK. Congrats to University of Bristol - up an impressive 16 places.

We have an exciting opportunity targeted at African social scientists! The POSSIBLE-Africa Fellowship prog is a 24-month postdoctoral fellowship for outstanding African scholars in #SocialSciences & Humanities #PossibleAfrica #SupportingAfricanScience buff.ly/3Te8T82

Meeting with UofG FemEng students today to support their next programme in #Africa Olivia Sloan Rachel Sandison Anton Muscatelli 🌍

Pleased to be ranked in the top 20 universities in the UK & the top three in Scotland in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023.

'These results are down to the hard work & dedication of colleagues and I would like to thank everyone for their efforts.” - Anton Muscatelli

In her #SOTEU address Ursula von der Leyen emphasised the need for paradigm shifts in how we live+work+produce: this requires Universities and their unique capacity for interdisciplinary enquiry in research and education! See my analysis in Times Higher Education 👉bit.ly/3UcSRNd

Reforming academic practices and structures within the #EUResearchArea could not make sense if important countries like 🇨🇭 or 🇬🇧 were not part of the conversation, The Guild's Vice-Presidents emphasised in their meeting last week - read more ➡️ bit.ly/3Dj25Sa

Attending CIVIS African partnerships meeting at La Sapienza University. Great to meet colleagues in person. Sapienza Università di Roma #Rome CIVIS University of Glasgow CIVIS - Europe's Civic University Alliance Rachel Sandison Anton Muscatelli 🇪🇺 🌍

Great seminar from Peter MacPherson today Prof Paul Garside UofG School of Health & Wellbeing Andy Waters #TB #HIV 🌍