The European Education Area strives to improve access to quality education for all. The main topics of the European education area are:

• Improving quality and equity in education and training
• Teachers, educators and principals
• Digital education
• Green Education
• European higher education in the world

As a strategic partner, the EU seeks to enhance cooperation with Africa to promote actions targeted to finding locally adapted solutions to challenges that are global in nature, but which often hit Africa hardest.

The Comprehensive Strategy with Africa and the Global Approach to Research & Innovation are the EU’s most recent policy initiatives that prioritise Research & Innovation as a key dimension of sustainable development.

The African Union – European Union High Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) on Science, Technology and Innovation is the policy forum where regular exchanges on research and innovation policy take place between both continents and where long-term priorities to strengthen cooperation are decided.

Four policy priorities for EU-AU cooperation in Research & Innovation are:

• Public Health
• Green Transition
• Innovation and Technology
• Capacities for Science (Science for Policy Making, Open Science, Human Capital Development, Gender Equality)

Here [PDF 382.67 KB] you can find the fact sheet on the four political priorities.

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The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has developed and hosted the Africa Knowledge Platform, which provides a gateway to data and information on Africa’s social, economic, territorial and environmental development.

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EURAXESS Africa links researchers in Africa with Europe. Here you can get free information and events on European research and policies, career and funding opportunities, networking and collaboration possibilities. EURAXESS Africa will be launched this year, 2022. Join the growing community of EURAXESS researchers here.

You can search for funding opportunities from the EU here.