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Equity and Inclusion in African–European Knowledge Partnerships
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Language beyond learning
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African-European teaching collaboration and instructional design
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Cultural heritage and housing: protection, safeguarding, and belonging
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Heritage for the future: promoting best practices for preservation and promotion
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Joint African-European studies and viewpoints on epidemiology
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Preparedness and adaptability in Global Health
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Transregional sustainable development
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Decolonising African-European academic partnerships
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WE4LEAD: a cross-continental endeavor towards gender equality
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Migrant storytelling on home and belonging as transformative tools
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Teaching complexity Through Real-World and Collaborative pedagogies
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Overcoming racism in healthcare: a European and African perspective on how to improve medical training
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Transcultural memories and narratives
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Participatory action research in vulnerable contexts: a trans-continental perspective
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Building on PolyCIVIS Insights: Enhancing African-European Cooperation in Research and Evidence-Based Policy
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Added-value collaboration between academic research&local stakeholders
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Universities in Transformation
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Rethinking Aging: Scientific Evidence, Public Perception, and Cultural Practices
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Opening session
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Challenging the complexities of informal elderly care. Towards African-European collaborative aging research and education
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Climate change and other challenges - building convergence through collaboration
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Exploring opportunities and challenges of AI in research and teaching in Europe -Africa Alliance
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Closing session
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Polycrisis and forced displacement across Africa and Europe
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CIVIS Research Council face-to-face meeting
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The African Cancer Immunology and Infection Initiative
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Experimentation and the making of experiential knowledge
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Toward equitable and transformative science partnerships: Which role for CIVIS?
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Session chair: Prof. Thalia Dragona, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, (Greece)
Collective contribution
PhD Anna Leshchenko - University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) online
PhD Annika Vosseler - University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) online
Dr. Dorothy Sebbowa Kyagaba - Makerere University, Kampala (Uganda) online
Prof Maia Wellington - Sapienza University of Rome, Roma (Italy)
University museums across Europe play an increasingly visible role in
debates around colonial legacies, cultural restitution and ethical
curatorship. Yet many of these institutions are staffed by academics
rather than trained museum professionals, often lacking the curatorial
expertise, resources, and frameworks needed to undertake provenance
research and decolonial work in a sustainable way.
In this tandem talk,
Dorothy Kyagaba (Uganda) and Annika Vosseler (Germany) reflect on the
beginnings of a joint African-European initiative to co-develop
practical guidelines for university-based curators. Rooted in the April
2025 Think Tank meeting in Tübingen and Stuttgart and supported by the
CIVIS Alliance, this collaboration brings together scholars and
practitioners from universities and museums in Uganda, Germany, and
France.
The project’s starting point is the ethnological collection of
the University of Tübingen - a site of shared inquiry into colonial
entanglements, institutional blind spots, and the potential of
co-curated knowledge.
This presentation offers an early-stage reflection on emerging
African-European relations within the project, addressing both the
frictions and the potential of joint problem-solving.
It outlines a
draft model for sustainable, scalable, and digitally inclusive
provenance work in university museums - with the goal of supporting
other institutions facing similar challenges across the CIVIS network
and beyond
Questions for the audience
- What kinds of responsibility are needed between African and European institutions to transform heritage practices?
- How can universities become laboratories for just and inclusive provenance research that transcends academic hierarchies?