Southern Africa


Deadline for submission of proposals for the Programme has passed

On 13 March the deadline for the submission of proposals has passed. The Programme already now received an overwhelming response to its Call and while proposals are still coming in, the evaluation process has started. According to the rules the applicants will be informed of every evaluation step their application goes through.
In the meantime the [...]

Lecturer in Food Science

I am a researcher in sweetpotato starch within the University of Malawi and currently looking for partners to explore cheap ways of developing or modify starches that can perform particular functionalities in food.
Madalitso Tsakama
This post was submitted by Madalitso Tsakama.

Waste Management Officer

I am working on a tree planting project for Swaziland. The plan is to plant trees in the drought stricken areas of Swaziland and fight climate change by planting indiginous trees, starting with eroded areas to areas of potential erosion. It has been predicted that some species will become extinct while others will migrate as [...]

Cooperation in Solid Waste and Resource Management

The Institute for Water Quality, Resource and Waste Management of Vienna University of Technology (Austria) offers its collaboration in a research project under the ACP Science and Technology Programme. Our fields of interest and expertise in research and teaching are the following:
Solid waste and resource management;
Waste sampling and analysis;
Assessing and investigation of waste management systems;
Waste [...]

Agriculture Consultant

We are looking for a Partner in any Agriculture Capacity Building project. Our Company is called Impact Research International and we are based in South Africa.
This post was submitted by Charles Katsande.

Remote sensing / renewable energies

I am interested in remote sensing of water qualities (chemical species monitoring) and manufacturing such devices, also interested in renewable energies. Based in Cape Town with other potential partners in Southern Africa.
Franz-Josef Kahlen
This post was submitted by Franz-Josef Kahlen.

Coconut processing

With regard to coconut processing an integrated processing plant has been set up in the Philippines to process the whole coconut. From the coconut many products can be derived, from bio-fuel to cattle/fish feed and health products. We are looking for partners to cooperate with our Dutch and Philippine partners in order to develop a [...]

Regional Information Days in Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean

The ACP Secretariat is happy to announce that it is organizing regional information days in the ACP regions. The objective of these meetings is to inform in detail about the Programme, this Call for Proposals and how to participate by submitting a proposal. Participants will also be able to ask questions in order to help [...]

Looking for partners in the area of phytomedicine

The Phytomedicine Programme is an established Research Niche Area of the National Research Foundation in South Africa. We work on the use of plant extracts or isolated compounds to treat infectious diseases caused by microorganisms or parasites in animal health and production. This entails both ethnoveterinary work and increasing productivity in livestock. Our strong [...]

Partner sought for developing single chain antibodies

We would like to submit a proposal for the ACP programme. We wish to develop nanobodies. Interested parties are asked to email cpy-secretary@uct.ac.za
Prof T. Pillay
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/chempath/
This post was submitted by Prof T. Pillay.