Network Support Function
UniBRAIN
Network Support Project
UniBRAIN
Related Links
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This page provides ready access to the websites of organisations of interest to UniBRAIN |
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African Ministerial Council for Science and Technology (AMCOST) |
AMCOST is a high-level platform for developing policies and setting priorities on science, technology and innovation for African development. AMCOST provides political and policy leadership for the implementation of Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (CPA). |
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African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) |
The African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) is a network of 131 educational institutions in 35 African countries whose objective is to strengthen the teaching of multi-disciplinary approaches to land management. |
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Africa portal on agricultural education in Africa (AET) |
This resource provides free access to up-to-date information on agricultural education and training (AET) for Sub Sahara Africa institutions with the aim to inform development work in the sector. The portal tracks student enrolment, faculty, courses and graduate output at over 400 member universities and technical training colleges awarding degrees, diplomas and certificates in agriculture and related disciplines in the region. |
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Agricultural Innovation in Africa (AIA) |
The Agricultural Innovation in Africa (AIA) Project is inviting input on good practices for consideration for inclusion in the forthcoming study, The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa. |
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AgrieVie ptivate equity investor |
The Agri-Vie fund has been structured with a view to investor flexibility as regards commitment amounts, limited liability, geographic exposure and fund governance. |
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AGROTECH Denmark |
AGROTECH http://agrotech.dk/en which are independent institutions with the mandate to foster collaboration between Universities, Research institutes and private companies. AGROTECH is a GTS institution. GTS institutes are independent institutions set up to foster collaboration between Universities, Research institutes and private companies |
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African Management Services Company (AMSCO) |
The African Training and Management Services Project, which is managed by AMSCO, is sub-Saharan Africa's biggest and most ambitious human capital development effort in the private sector. Created to play a key role in Africa's economic development and operating in over twenty five countries, the Project provides human capital solutions that lead to wealth creation via the private sector and commercially operated state enterprises. It comprises two separate, but interrelated components, The ATMS Foundation and AMSCO BV. |
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Association of African Universities (AAU) |
The Association of African Universities (AAU) is the apex organization and forum for consultation, exchange of information and co-operation among institutions of higher education in Africa. It represents the voice of higher education in Africa on regional and international bodies and supports networking by institutions of higher education in teaching, research, information exchange and dissemination. |
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Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) |
ACU combines the expertise and reputation of nearly a century’s experience with new and innovative programmes designed to meet the needs of universities in the 21st century. |
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CABi Direct Abstracts |
Abstracts of papers on agribusiness start-ups, incubators and other related topics |
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Capacity for development |
EuropeAid's interactive platform that supports the European Commission's efforts to make technical cooperation more effective. The platform is an open forum where EC staff at country level and in headquarters, development practitioners, partner countries, other donors, academics and civil society representatives can share ideas and knowledge. |
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Collaboration and rural innovation |
Collaboration and Rural (C@R) is a project that aims to enable people in remote and rural Europe to fully participate in the knowledge society as citizens and as professionals. |
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Danish Technological Institute (DTI) |
Danish Technological Institute (DTI) www.dti.dk and Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) www.dhigroup.com These are GTS institutions GTS institutes are independent institutions set up to foster collaboration between Universities, Research institutes and private companies |
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Enablis Entrepreneurial Network |
Enablis Entrepreneurial Network's Mission Enablis is a non-profit organisation created to drive measurable economic development and to build thriving and self-sustaining small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world. This is done through a membership-based approach aimed at empowering individual entrepreneurs and their ideas in partnership with government, the private sector and civil society. |
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Enterprise Development Worldwide |
Enterprise Development Worldwide has a branch in Kenya |
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equoiacap business plan presentatio |
Sequoiacap business plan presentation in 15 slides maximum |
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german Academic Exchane Service (DAAD) |
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the largest funding organisation in the world supporting the international exchange of students and scholars |
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Higer Education for Development (HED) |
Higher Education for Development works in close partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the nation’s six presidential higher education associations to support the involvement of higher education in development issues worldwide. |
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infoDev |
infoDev is a partnership of international development agencies,
coordinated and served by an expert Secretariat housed in the Global ICT
Department (GICT) of the World Bank, one of its key donors and
founders. It acts as a neutral convener of dialogue, and as a
coordinator of joint action among bilateral and multilateral
donors—supporting global sharing of information on ICT for development
(ICT4D), and helping to reduce duplication of efforts and investments. infoDev also forms partnerships with public and private-sector organizations who are innovators in the field of ICT4D. |
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International Foundation for Science |
IFS is a research council with international operations and the mission to build the scientific capacity of developing countries in sciences related to the sustainable management of biological and water resources. |
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International Mentoring - biz4d |
On our platform young people from all over the world can find a mentor and you can offer to serve as one! Biz4d stands for “business for development” and, through international mentoring, promotes a unique combination of three different dimensions of development: personal development, professional development and international development. |
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International Network for Higher Education in Africa |
Use search facility to go to INHEA website |
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Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) |
The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) is a regional inter-governmental organization established in 1980 by the three East African Partner States (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) with the aim of facilitating contact between the universities of East Africa, providing a forum for discussion on a wide range of academic and other matters relating to higher education, and helping maintain high and comparable academic standards |
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Kenya Kountry Business Incubator |
Kenya Kountry Business Incubator trading as KeKoBI Enterprises Ltd supports micro, small and medium enterprises to become healthy, wealth-generating businesses through provision of Business Development Services (BDS) and fully furnished rental office spaces with fast speed Internet at subsidized rates. |
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Kenya Youth Business Trust (KYBT) |
KYBT is the local chapter of the Youth Business International (YBI), a programme of The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. YBI has adopted the model pioneered by the Prince’s Trust in the UK and is now active in 40 countries. The overall aim is to fight youth unemployment by supporting new business start-ups, and providing young people with personal development opportunities. |
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KPI Mega Library |
This site provides you with the world's biggest database on key performance indicators |
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Mpulanga agri skills development and training |
A Nationally recognized organization who contributes to the development and growth of the South African agricultural sector in the following: • Learnerships • Mentorship • Assessment courses • • Moderation courses • Skills programmes • • Short courses • Incubation |
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Netherlands Organisation of International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC) |
Nuffic is the Netherlands organization for international cooperation in higher education. As an independent, non-profit organization based in The Hague, the Netherlands, Nuffic supports internationalization in higher education, research and professional education in the Netherlands and abroad, and helps improve access to higher education worldwide. |
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Pan-African Agribusiness and Agroindustry Consortium (PanAAC) |
PanAAC is a private sector driven platform that seeks to bring together agribusiness and agro-industry Value chains and support services to enable them easily access information, knowledge, strategic partnerships and financial remediation |
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Partnership for Higher Education in Africa |
In 2000, Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York, launched the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa ("the Partnership") to coordinate their support for higher education in Africa. |
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Regional Universities Forum for capacity building in agriculture (RUFORUM) |
RUFORUM has a mandate to oversee graduate training and networks of specialization in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries. |
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Research-Africa.net |
Research Africa strengthens the African science and technology policy-making, and research community, and connects them with the world scientific community. Research Africa is for African government and institutional policy makers, researchers and research managers. |
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Standard Bank agribusiness financing |
Standard Bank provides financial services to the agricultural sector and is committed to the development of agriculture across Africa. The bank offers a wide range of finance, investment and risk management solutions across a diverse range of agribusiness products and commodities, and services to the agricultural value chain. |
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Support for the aid and development community |
Capacity4dev.eu is a website built to serve the aid and development community by fostering greater collaboration and exchange across a range of development |
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The Living Lab for innovation |
Through partnerships between citizens, businesses and public authorities, the Living Labs model allows people and industries to test tomorrow's best innovations in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). The Living Labs model includes end-user participation from an early stage of the creative process of technology development. As a result, evaluating aspects such as social and economic implications of new technologies has become more accurate. So the needs of users are better listened to and fulfilled. The Living Labs model benefits citizens, industry and research * Living Labs empower citizens, as end-users, to influence the development of innovative services & products that eventually could benefit the whole society. * Living Labs allow industry to develop, validate and integrate new ideas, to partner with other companies and to increase their chances of success during product and/or service launches. * Living Labs facilitate the integration of technological innovation in society and increase return on investments in ICT research. |
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Villages combining for rural innovation |
Villages in Burkina Faso to promote holistic innovation in a difficult environment. Google translate makes the website accessible to those who cannot read French |
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What makes a successful incubator |
This is the story of 165 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California and the building in which Google, PayPal, Logitech and other successful companies started. |
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Young Professionals' Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) |
The mission of YPARD is to serve as a global platform through which young professionals can express their ideas and realise their full potential towards a dynamic agricultural research for development. |
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Seep Community, connecting microenterprise practitioners in a global learning community. |
Welcome to the SEEP Community. We connect microenterprise practitioners from around the world to develop practical guidance and tools, build capacity, and help set standards to advance our common vision: a sustainable income in every household. |
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Open Innovation Africa Summit |
The Ideas Project had 200 policy makers, entrepreneurs, innovators, financiers, academics and development attend the Open Innovation Africa Summit 2010. This summit was about the participants and about the change they themselves embody in society. The objective was to challenge people to continue their thinking and collaboration by creating virtual communities of practice for each of the summit streams and sub-groups that analyzed particular dimensions of the challenge (e.g. mLearning concepts). You are invited to get on board and to continue from where the summit and the ideation competition left off. |
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OSKE The Centre of Expertise Programme lays the ground for diverse innovation activities in which high-level research is combined with technological, design and business competence. |
The programme is a tool for regional innovation, which contains ready-made operating models and networks for the national and international markets. The programme offers networks and services for companies, universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutions. |