Marrakech, Morocco - October 17, 2024
Dr. Ahmed Maalel, the Regional Representative for EURAXESS Africa played a keynote role on the second day of the FOSC** community meeting. He led a one-and-a-half hour training session entitled “Building Partnerships with African Research Institutions and Organizations”, focusing on improving the mobility of researchers between Africa and Europe through the EURAXESS platform and FTOP portal.
The FOSC community meeting, held from October 16 to 17, 2024, brought together 28 partners from Europe, Africa and Latin America, highlighting the importance of transcontinental research aimed at developing sustainable food systems in the face of climate change. The meeting's hybrid format enabled participants to join either in person or online, facilitating broader engagement across regions.
On October 16, the era-NET Food Systems and Climate (FOSC) co-fund organized a Knowledge Hub session aimed at sharing project results and encouraging discussion of potential value-adding elements within the wider community.
Dr. Maalel's training session on October 17 was designed specifically for FOSC R&I project partners, covering topics highly relevant not only to the FOSC community but also to a wider audience in relation to mobility opportunities for researchers, networking opportunities under Horizon Europe calls for projects.
**FOSC is the ERA‐NET Cofund on Food Systems and Climate
One of the most complex global societal challenges is to achieve food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture under a changing climate. In order to support research that will contribute to meeting this challenge, the European Research Area Network Cofund (ERA‐NET Cofund) Food Systems and Climate (FOSC) has been formed. FOSC started on 1 October 2019 for a duration of five years. The network received an extension of one extra year in 2023 and will run until September 2025. The FOSC Consortium consists of 28 international partners from Europe, Africa, and Latin America and has a funding budget of approximately 16 million euros (including European Commission co‐fund contribution).
FOSC has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 862555.
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