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The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) invites you to an online launch of the ARUA Universities Research Profiles Report.

The launch will highlight findings from the data-gathering exercise on how ARUA Universities are positioned in terms of academic programs, graduate enrolment, performance, and research management, for the purpose of benchmarking.

To register, click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ck9QI6ssQ_G9y9er4Rfd6g

The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Association of Commonwealth (ACU), organized a one-day symposium on 18^th March 2021 on the theme, “Africa-UK research partnerships for development – A vision for future success”.

This Early-Career Research Fellowship is being initiated by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support a total of thirteen (13) Early-Career Research Fellows to undertake globally competitive research at the ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoEs).

The goal is to strengthen the capacity of early-career researchers at African universities by giving them time away from teaching responsibilities at their home institutions while working with very senior and accomplished researchers. Each
CoE is expected to host one research fellow from a country other than where the CoE is located.

Applications should be submitted by email to the Secretary-General of ARUA (arua@ug.edu.gh; info@arua.org.za)
not later than 15th June 2021. Successful candidates shall be contacted before August 2021 and
expected to begin the fellowship in October 2021.

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Prof. Ernest Aryeetey has been appointed as the new African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Board Chair with effect from 1 April 2021. He takes over from Dr. Louis Kasekende whose term ends 31 March 2021, having served in this capacity since April 2017. Dr. Kasekende is the immediate former Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda and has been instrumental in spearheading the collaboration with the AERC African Central Bank Governor’s Forum to ensure the long-term sustainability of the AERC through increased African stakeholdership.

Prof. Aryeetey is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana. One of his strategic priorities as Vice Chancellor was to develop the university into a research-intensive institution that supports structural transformation in Ghana and Africa. He was the first director of the African Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC. Prof Aryeetey has served as a member of the Governing Council of the United Nations University and was previously Chairman of the Advisory Board of UNU-World Institute for Development Economics Research (Helsinki).

An economist by training, Prof Ernest Aryeetey has held academic appointments at SOAS, University of London, Yale University and Swarthmore College.

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The University of Mauritius has become the first associate member university of ARUA following the signing of an MoU between ARUA and the University on 8^th March, 2021. The move makes it possible for researchers at the University of Mauritius to participate in all ARUA activities including conferences, workshops, training programs and research projects.