THE INDEPENDENT GLOBAL STOCKTAKE WEST AFRICA  REGIONAL HUB PROJECT SET TO BE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED

Press Release The West African civil society can contribute to the Global Stocktake (GST) process of the Paris Agreement as non-Party stakeholder through the Independent Global Stocktake. Indeed, as part of global efforts to ensure adequate civil society contribution to the GST, the iGST works through a consortium of regional civil society hubs and four thematic working groups on Continue Reading

WASCAL BUILDING CAPACITIES FOR WELL-QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS IN GREEN HYDROGEN

Mrs. Oda Keppler, Head of Sub-division Sustainability from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF) has stated that for green hydrogen to be a success, the sector needs well-qualified professionals and that the selection of the WASCAL first batch of green hydrogen scholars in West Africa was a step in the right direction, Continue Reading

AFRICAN SCIENTISTS CONVERGE TO DISCUSS SOLUTIONS TO ADAPT TO AND MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

African scientists under the umbrella of the “Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network for Climate Action in Africa (RAINCA)” met in Kampala, Uganda, from 3 to 5 April 2023. The meeting was an Orientation programme for Principal Investigators (PIs) of the grantees of the RAINCA initiative for the implementation of independent research projects in different sectors such Continue Reading

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR MASTER RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN INFORMATICS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE 2023/2024 ACADEMIC SESSION

The Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is pleased to announce for application for its fourth batch of students to the study of Master Research Programme in Informatics for Climate Change (MRP-ICC) in Burkina Faso under the Capacity Building Programme of West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), with Continue Reading

59 FULLY FUNDED GREEN HYDROGEN SCHOLARS FROM WEST AFRICA, ARRIVE IN GERMANY ON A 4-MONTH STUDY

Fifty-Nine students from 15 West African countries who benefitted from the WASCAL fully funded scholarship in the international master’s programme in energy and green hydrogen are currently going through a series of orientations in the Federal Republic of Germany as they begin their four-month practical work and thesis completion at Julich, RWTH Aachen University and Continue Reading

WASCAL ACCREDITATION PROCESS BY HCERES  AT UCAD AND UAC (SITE VISIT)

After 10 years of implementation, WASCAL has undertaken the evaluation and the international accreditation of th curricula of its Graduate studies programme. The Instittution doing that is HCERES from France (HIGH COUNCIL FOR THE EVALUATION OF RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION). HCERES has a national and international Departments in France, Europe and Beyond Europe. The GSP Continue Reading