With support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the African Research Universities Alliance will host a 2-day workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 26-27 February 2018 for the purpose of agreeing on and setting performance indicators for member universities. The purpose of the workshop is to (a) present a preliminary knowledge profile of each university to serve as a baseline, using bibliometric data; (b) present a generic logic model to demonstrate how indicator data can be used to evaluate and monitor research impact; (c) share the lessons learnt from the HERANA project and (d) raise awareness of capacity required (related to the systems, organisational structures, processes and procedures) to enable data gathering and sharing on a sustainable basis. This will be informed by a questionnaire or survey on such capacity currently in place at member institutions that will be circulated to each university prior to the workshop.

For more information about this workshop, please send email to arua@ug.edu.gh

The Board of the African Research Universities Alliance will meet on 31st January 2018 at the Wits Club, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein. The Board includes all Vice Chancellors of the ARUA member universities. This meeting will approve the work programme and budget of ARUA for the period 2018-2019.

For more information about this meeting, please send email to arua@ug.edu.gh

The 1-day Consultative Meeting on ARUA Centres of Excellence will take place on 30^th January 2018 at the Wits Club, University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein. The meeting will bring together 13 Vice Chancellors of ARUA member universities, Heads of the Centres of Excellence and a number of potential funding agencies. They will discuss the focus of each centre and explore ways in which they can be funded.

For more information about this meeting, please send email to arua@ug.edu.gh

A two-day inception meeting of the Mellon project coordinators from four universities has taken place at the African Centre for Migration & Society at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. It took place on 11-12 July 2017.