Academia Partnerships- Africa-France programme (PeA3)

Description

1) Objective

Launched in 2020, this program aims to support projects run jointly by African and French higher education institutions. The PeA is a program of academic partnerships between Africa and France, financed by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) via Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Its implementation is being supported by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and Campus France.

The Academia Partnerships Africa-France programme supports projects that:

• are led by French and African higher education and research institutions engaged in a strategic partnership to boost and implement sustainable higher education training programmes delivered in Africa;
• target a priority field for the socioeconomic development of the country or region, and where the training capacity is insufficient with respect to employment capacity;
• help build the African institution’s capacities and skills in managing this training programme;

2) Eligibility

Each project applying for a partnership for the PeA programme is jointly coordinated by a higher education and research institution from an African country eligible for PeA3 (see §1.4) and by a French higher education and research institution, potentially joined by other partnering higher education and research institutions from France; the public and private institutions involved are non-profit and are not recognized as an enterprise in the sense of European regulations for state aid to research, development, and innovation.

3) Location

Eligible countries are South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Togo.

4) Budget

Funding ranges from €1,500,000-€3,000,000 per project

5) Application

Deadline for submitting proposal documents: 06 May 2025 at 12:00 Central European Time (CET).