Portrait of a UK-Africa Capacity Building Initiative Consortium 2015-2022: the Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa and United Kingdom Materials Initiative (CaGSUMI) for developing materials for solar cells.

IF 3.6 3区 生物学 Q1 BIOLOGY
Interface Focus Pub Date : 2024-08-09 eCollection Date: 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1098/rsfs.2023.0057
Peter T Ndifon, Johannes Awudza, Neerish Revaprasadu, Paul O'Brien, David J Lewis
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Abstract

The CaGSUMI consortium was funded by the Royal Society-Department for International Development (later the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) on the Africa Capacity Building Initiative programme between the years 2015 and 2022 and involved three Sub-Saharan African universities: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, and the University of Zululand, South Africa; and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. The project was used to cement an emergent UK-Africa network in the areas of materials chemistry related to renewable energy generation with both thin films and nanomaterials. The consortium's outputs led to numerous publications of African science in international journals, a number of graduated PhDs who went on to permanent academic positions and prestigious fellowships, the establishment of a capacity-building plan relevant to the chemistry departments in each of the African countries, and the installation of a number of first-in-kind pieces of kit for African laboratories that will keep them on a competitive footing at an international level for the next decade and more.

2015-2022 年英国-非洲能力建设倡议联盟简介:喀麦隆、加纳、南非和英国材料倡议 (CaGSUMI),用于开发太阳能电池材料。
CaGSUMI 联合体由英国皇家学会-国际发展部(后为外交、英联邦和发展办公室)在 2015 年至 2022 年间的非洲能力建设倡议计划资助,涉及三所撒哈拉以南非洲大学:加纳库马西夸梅-恩克鲁玛科技大学、喀麦隆雅温得第一大学、南非祖鲁兰大学以及英国曼彻斯特大学参与了该项目。该项目被用来巩固英国与非洲在与利用薄膜和纳米材料生产可再生能源有关的材料化学领域的新兴网络。该联合会的成果包括:在国际期刊上发表了大量非洲科学论文;一些博士毕业生获得了长期学术职位和著名的奖学金;制定了一项与每个非洲国家化学系相关的能力建设计划;为非洲实验室安装了一些首创的工具包,这些工具包将使这些实验室在未来十年甚至更长的时间里保持国际竞争力。
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Interface Focus
Interface Focus BIOLOGY-
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9.20
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44
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6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Each Interface Focus themed issue is devoted to a particular subject at the interface of the physical and life sciences. Formed of high-quality articles, they aim to facilitate cross-disciplinary research across this traditional divide by acting as a forum accessible to all. Topics may be newly emerging areas of research or dynamic aspects of more established fields. Organisers of each Interface Focus are strongly encouraged to contextualise the journal within their chosen subject.
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