How Africa-Europe education projects are promoting the green transition in Sub-Saharan Africa
The green transition in Sub-Saharan Africa topic was the main focus of an event in Addis Ababa for education professionals and Erasmus+ project representatives.
Erasmus+ in Africa
Erasmus+ supports cooperation projects for partnerships of European and African education institutions, in the higher education and vocational education & training sectors. The EU’s Erasmus+ programme also funds mobility and virtual exchange partnerships linking both regions, as well as the Erasmus Mundus joint masters programmes which host substantial numbers of African students.
2025 seminar series
The 20-21 May meeting, hosted by the University of Addis Ababa, education ministry and the EU Delegation, was one of a series of “Cluster and Contact-Building" seminars this year.
We’re organising similar meetings in Bogotà (early October) and Colombo (mid-November) for the Latin America & Caribbean regions and the Asia-Pacific-Middle East regions respectively.
You can get in touch with your national focal point to find out about these.
Addis Ababa
Some 150 onsite participants and over 300 more online discussed what these Africa-Europe projects are doing around:
- Developing new skills and technologies for the green transition. For example, we learned about training for climate-smart agriculture in Mozambique; and the way Addis Ababa University is developing energy technology PhD courses with Europe.
- Adapting teaching and learning to pursue climate goals. We heard the academic coordinator and a Liberian alumnus of an Erasmus Mundus masters programme on environmental policy and practice. Then a project on student-centred energy education linking up four African countries, and a Burundi-based project on training to combat deforestation.
- The role that education institutions themselves play as beacons of green behaviour, where we learned of a range of very practical good practice from, Lesotho, Gambia and Ethiopia – and partners in Greece
After the discussion, the Erasmus National Focal Points stayed on for a further day’s training and networking. This is part of their role as ambassadors and information relays for Erasmus+ in Africa.
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