Overview of ASRIC Movement and activities

Overview of ASRIC

Movement and activities Dr. Eng. Ahmed HAMDY

Executive Director of African Union Scientific, Technical and Research Commission (AU-STRC)

Executive Director of African Scientific, Research and Innovation Council (ASRIC)

1st ASRIC Conference on Engineering Sciences Engineering and Informatics for Africa’s Urbanization

The African Union, Scientific, Technical and Research Commission (AU-STRC) as a

specialized institution of the African Union have been at the vanguard of

promoting science and technology in the continent for the past 6 decades;

It is mandated to implement the AU policies and Strategies on STI, currently

spearheading the implementation of STISA-2024;

AS of the Establishment of the ASRIC the AU-STRC mandate was enlarged to be

the secretariat of ASRIC.

AU-STRC & ASRIC

Secretariat

AU-STRC and ASRIC Strategic directives The Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024) is the

strategic directive of the AU-STRC and ASRIC while its pillars and priority areas

are the lighthouse for its actions and interventions.

STISA-2024 Pillars

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STISA

Eradication of hunger

and achieving

food security

Prevention and control of diseases

Communication (Physical

& Intellectual

Mobility)

Protection of our space

Live together – build the society

Wealth creation

STISA Priority Areas

AU-STRC & ASRIC Actions and Interventions

In the area of wealth Creation

• Accelerate Africa’s transition to an innovation-led,

Knowledge based Economy;

• Upgrading/Building Research Infrastructure;

• Enhancing Technical and Professional Competencies;

Innovation and Entrepreneurship; and

• providing an Enabling Environment for STI Development in

the African Continent

• To build Inclusive Innovation capacities in Africa;

• To develop an enabling environment “Policies and legislation”

on Inclusive Innovation;

• Capacity and capability building – training of African STI

practitioners on Inclusive Innovation

• Smart funding mechanisms geared towards Inclusive

Innovation products and services

• Strategic collaboration on Inclusive Innovation for the

scientific community intra or inter Africa

Inclusive Innovation as driving force for Africa

Prosperity


In the area of wealth Creation

Guideline for economic prosperity through sustainable

innovation

Enhance societal & economic resilience to environ

Sustainable use of natural resource to achieve Agenda 2063

Improve human wellbeing while reducing environmental risk

for livelihood

Global green growth transition and explores the

opportunities for Africa


In the area of live together- build the society

Identifying the root cause and effects of less participation

of women in scientific research;

Road way from gender disparity to gender equality bringing

about a paradigm shift in support for women in science;

Intervention mechanisms to be put in place for the

enhancement of women participation in science

a. Increase the number of Sensitization /Capacity

Building Programme for Female Scientists; and

b. More political commitment to female

participation in science”.



• Risk assessment of the impact of climate change on: Water

Resources, Rainfall and Drought; Biodiversity; Agriculture;

Desertification; Health; and Sea Level Rise;

• Auditing of existing interventions to ameliorating the

climate change impact on Africa that including Africa

Science, Technology and Innovation Response to the Climate

Change Challenges;

• Identifying and recommending actions and interventions to

be in place for the mitigation and adoption of climate

change



INTERNATIONAL

PLATFORM ON

ADAPTATION

METRICS

• Connect experts, practitioners and decision-makers

• Facilitate the co-design of metrics

• Develop approaches, instruments, tools and facilities that support effective finance of and policy making for climate adaptation

• Promote capacity building, research exchange and data enhancement, standards and metrics harmonization and consensus

Inclusive/Community Based Innovation

13%

Knowledge Management 4%

Climate Fund 6%

Natural Risks 10%

Engineering 9%

Health Sciences 52%

The AU-STRC built the Capacity of 1000 African

Scientists on the past 3 years (2018 & 2021)



Capacity

Budling



African Scientific,

Research and

Innovation Council scholarship Scheme

The UEMF ASRIC scholarship schema is to

launch an annual Scholarship programme for a period of 5 years

where:

UEMF offered 10 Scholarship/year for African Ph.D students

to undertake their studies and research work at UEMF for a

study period of 3 Years.

Fields of study are Digital Engineering and Artificial

Intelligence; Embedded systems; Additive Manufacturing;

Materials; Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency; Energy

storage; Batteries and Smart grids; and Management,

Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The total Budget allocated to this schema 500, 000 USD fully

sponsored by UEMF.


In the area of Prevention and control of diseases

• Inventory and audit for the health care system in Africa and

the research activities that are linked to the sector

• Roadmap to the creation of mechanisms that to support

research translation in the level of AU and its Member

States;

• Stander operational procedure guidelines to translate

research and findings from the lab side to the bedside;

• Research translation protocol for health care development

in Africa



AFRICAN PHARMACOPOEIA

2014

AU/STRC

VOLUME 1

SECOND EDITION ABUJA, NIGERIA 2014

Presents monograph of 342 plants out of which 100 are new plants

species

It increases avenue for Africa to benefit from its biodiversity

protects Africa’s plant varieties

Provides scientifically organized information on plant varieties

Gallery for easy identification of medicine plants by Scientist &

Practitioners

Guiding the development of standards, safety and efficacy of plants

use

The framework was a new paradigm for the risk management

of infectious diseases in Africa and advocated for the creation

of an enabling environment for implementation of disease

surveillance. The framework was developed on the concept of

one health “public health, animal health, ecosystems health,

and plant health”. The framework was the foundation and one

of the guiding principles to establish the AUCDC.





COVID-19 & Africa

African Scientific,

Research and

Innovation Council Movement to respond to

COVID-19

More than 200 African Scientist within Africa and Diaspora.

More than 40 Universities and Research Institutions.

30 National Plant protection organizations

Large Number of African specialized Institutions such as REFORM, FAR, ATPS, AU-IAPSC, AU-IBAR

Total number of active member states within the movement is 25

ASRIC Advisory Board to guide ASRIC’s Intervention through formulating policies /guidelines, R&D plans, activities that emphasizes on getting right faro-centric response to the pandemic Non pharmaceutical intervention, diagnosis, modelling, therapy, and vaccines among others

Working Group to Study the Impact of COVID-19 on Africa’s Food and Nutritional Security;

Working Group to Study the Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 on Africa, and

Working Group on Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge to Preventing and Controlling Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Continent like COVID-19: Utilizing an Afro-centric Response

African Scientific,

Research and

Innovation Council Movement to respond to

COVID-19 Areas of interventions

COVID-19 & Africa



OUT put Of

The African Scientific, Research

and Innovation Council

Movement to respond to COVID-19


Communication (Physical & Intellectual Mobility)

The African Union Network of Sciences (AUNS) is a virtual

platform that gives comprehensive interaction within the

knowledge society and posts the African Research and

Innovation output/library. It also uplifts the intra Africa

cooperation in Science, Technology and Research to improve

the quality and the application of science, technology and

innovation by promoting and sharing experiences/knowledge.

AUNS is an innovative way to enhance brain circulation and

bridge the African based Scientists and those in the Diaspora to

address Africa’s Challenges.


Areas of Cross cutting & Enabling Environment

African Scientific,

Research and

Innovation Council Journals


Upcoming events &

Calls This year conference theme


Upcoming events &

Calls

Envelop Objectives Research

Areas

Total number of

projects

Total

envelop is

6,000,000

USD

• Supporting collaborative Research and

Innovation activities that address critical

issues faced by the two regions and the

fight against common diseases of concern,

while respecting ethical and gender issues.

• Enhancing intra–regional and South-South

scientific collaboration and research that

contributes to India and Africa’s

sustainable development.

COVID-19

2 to 3 projects/

thematic area

HIV/AIDS

Tuberculosis

Cancer

ICMR/AU-STRC research Grant Schema


International Cooperation and partnership

Thank You

for more information

you are

welcome to our websites

www.austrc.org & www.ASRIC.africa

don’t forget to join

the African Union Network of sciences

for all updates on us

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