Kick-off and 1st General Assembly 2020

Group of People posing in front of a building for a group picture © BOKU/Christoph Gruber
Africa-UniNet: first General Assembly

The kick-off meeting and first General Assembly of the Austrian-African Research Network | Africa-UniNet took place from 30th to 31st of January 2020 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna.

Africa-UniNet was officially inaugurated and constituted with the acceptance of 63 African and 19 Austrian institutions as founding members of the network. During the meeting the representatives of the institutions became familiar with each other, the board and the country coordinators were elected and the work programme with first activities was specified.

A short report and a press release can be found on our website. In the column on the right you can find a download area including the conference booklet, the work programme 2020, the Africa-UniNet statutes, as well as presentations on the funding dimensions 2020 and the communication & visiblity strategy.

The list of founding member institutions, including information about their representatives, will be published soon in the section member institutions.