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Opening session
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Toward equitable and transformative science partnerships: Which role for CIVIS?
Done
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Universities in Transformation
Done
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African-European teaching collaboration and instructional design
Done
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Polycrisis and forced displacement across Africa and Europe
Done
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Added-value collaboration between academic research&local stakeholders
Done
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Transregional sustainable development
Done
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Experimentation and the making of experiential knowledge
Done
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Challenging the complexities of informal elderly care. Towards African-European collaborative aging research and education
Done
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Cultural heritage and housing: protection, safeguarding, and belonging
Done
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CIVIS Research Council face-to-face meeting
Done
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Joint African-European studies and viewpoints on epidemiology
Done
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Teaching complexity Through Real-World and Collaborative pedagogies
Done
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Preparedness and adaptability in Global Health
Done
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Overcoming racism in healthcare: a European and African perspective on how to improve medical training
Done
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Rethinking Aging: Scientific Evidence, Public Perception, and Cultural Practices
Done
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Building on PolyCIVIS Insights: Enhancing African-European Cooperation in Research and Evidence-Based Policy
Done
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Language beyond learning
Done
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The African Cancer Immunology and Infection Initiative
Done
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Decolonising university museum collections
Done
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Heritage for the future: promoting best practices for preservation and promotion
Done
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WE4LEAD: a cross-continental endeavor towards gender equality
Done
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Decolonising African-European academic partnerships
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Transcultural memories and narratives
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Exploring opportunities and challenges of AI in research and teaching in Europe -Africa Alliance
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Equity and Inclusion in African–European Knowledge Partnerships
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Participatory action research in vulnerable contexts: a trans-continental perspective
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Migrant storytelling on home and belonging as transformative tools
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Climate change and other challenges - building convergence through collaboration
Done
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Concluding session: Which lessons from the 1st CIVIS Forum?
Chair: Prof. Stefan Lang, CIVIS Secretary General
Co-chair: Prof. Mustapha Lkhider, Vice-President of Hassan II University
In this final, interactive plenary session, all participants are invited to share their main insights from the Forum, new ideas for collaboration, and feedback for the organisers – also in regard of a possible sequel. Moreover, the discussions of the past three days will lay the basis for jointly addressing three questions* of key importance for CIVIS as a Universities Alliance with research as an important part of its agenda and the partnership of African and European universities as one of its constituent features:
How can CIVIS further improve the stimulus for collaborative research on societal challenges?
The
CIVIS Roadmap for Research & Innovation, adopted in 2024, includes measures
to both directly foster collaborative research (e.g., seed-funding provision, networking
opportunities such as the CIVIS Forum) or to develop initiatives in support of
research activities (e.g., developing doctoral training and mobility). Are we
on the right track with these measures? What else can and should our alliance do
in this context, in further deepening our research collaboration in challenge-oriented
and inter-continental initiatives presented or explored at the Forum?
How can CIVIS support academics to succeed in grant acquisition?
Unlocking funding opportunities remains a key task for scientists, especially in transcontinental collaboration, often being a catalyst for initiating or consolidating scientific consortia in the first place. CIVIS incentivises building academic contacts, networks, or institutional support for joint grant applications. Our alliance also organises staff training and information exchange on EU funding programmes and engages in policy debates on the design of such programmes at European level. Should our alliance intensify such efforts? And if yes, how? Are there ways to go beyond such measures and explore, for instance, private or national funding sources – also within Africa – more systematically?
How to bridge education and research on societal challenges?
Developing joint educational offers, especially on societal challenges, is a core mission of CIVIS, also due to its roots in the European Universities Initiative. Promoting joint research is a crucial yet viable focus of CIVIS as an alliance of research-intensive universities. Which ideas and insights can we take away from the Forum on how these missions can grow further together? This includes concrete actions (e.g., curriculum design and experience, research-oriented training), the design of support measures at the intersection of teaching and research (e.g., call design, mission-inclusive mobility programmes), or the promotion of a wider cultural change toward a more education-inclusive understanding of academic excellence.
* See also: The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, “The contribution of European Universities alliances to research”, Blog Article, 5 February 2026