Opportunities
At the ResilientAfrica Network (RAN), we believe in unlocking potential and fostering collaboration to drive meaningful change. Our network thrives on the diverse skills, talents, and innovations of individuals and institutions working to build resilience in African communities.
University students are at the core of RAN’s resilience innovation agenda, and RAN is keen on identifying and supporting multi-disciplinary university-based student teams. For this initial period, RAN is seeking innovative solutions that address community vulnerabilities in any of the identified themes of focus.
If you are a student or team of students from one of the universities in the RAN, and you have a passion to be involved in developing the next big resilience innovation, we would love to hear from you. Please fill out this student contact form and we shall get back to you with more details.
The cornerstone of academic excellence and knowledge creation lies with university faculty, and at RAN we acknowledge the critical role that faculty play in identifying science and technology based solutions to development challenges as well as applying scientific, evidence-based approaches for evaluating the effectiveness of developed solutions.
Further, faculty play a critical role in spotting and nurturing student talent, and are thus critical for the success of RAN’s university engagement.
RAN is open to working with faculty with research expertise and experience in problem solving around our themes of focus.
We envisage working closely with faculty who can rally, guide and mentor multi-disciplinary teams of student innovators.
RAN, with the support of Stanford University is availing a massively open online course on resilience innovations that can enrich university teaching and learning, and should be of interest to faculty as well as students with an interest in this area.
If you are a faculty member from any of RAN’s network universities and wish to learn more on how you can get involved, please fill out this faculty contact form and we shall contact you.
If you are a student or a faculty member, or even a local innovator not based in one of the RAN universities or collaborating countries, we’d still like to hear from you if you already have an innovation that is in line with RAN’s themes, and require support to see it through.
Please send us your details using this innovator contact form and we will be in touch.
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