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AERAP Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Forum, 7 - 10 March 2023
The Forum will be designed to inform and engage with policymakers to ensure that the role and contribution of science, enabled through digital technologies, is reflected in European Union and its Member States’ policies concerning Africa. The meetings will also be designed to increase the level of participation and reinforce the networking by African nations’ with their partners in related EU programmes and science and innovation programmes supported by European Union member states and some associated countries. Digital capacities, existing and new, for expanding science inclusion and citizen participation by all groups in society across Africa, will be explored.
Key policy and programme developments include:
The meeting will address a range of themes, including Biodiversity Health, Medicine, Life Sciences, Geoscience, ICT, Digital Transformation, the Green Agenda, Women and Girls in science, Astronomy, reskilling and upskilling and Agri-food systems. In the Forum, we will examine the feedback loops between scientific funding, education funding, and digital transformation to support evidence for policymakers.

The meeting will also consider how emerging regulations covering data protection, medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and other areas impact science in Africa and science and innovation cooperation between Africa and the European Union.

The global context will be considered through the inclusion of speakers from the UN, OECD and other multilateral bodies.

The programme below is still in development so please check it regularly for updates.
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Jeremy Ouedraogo

African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
Head of African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) program
Dr Jeremy is Head of Regional Office of NEPAD Agency ABNE. Before joining ABNE he was a plant breeder, Head of the Plant Genetics and Biotechnology laboratory in the national research system of Burkina Faso. He holds a PhD degree from the University Laval, Canada and his research focused on the use of biotechnology tools in plant breeding. He has contributed to create many cowpea varieties that are released in Burkina Faso and other West African countries.
Since 2002, Dr. Ouedraogo has been fully involved in biotechnology/biosafety strategy development and implementation in his country. He has participated in the committee which elaborated the biosafety guidelines for Bt cotton trials and contributed to the approval of the referred trials as a member of the biosafety scientific committee member.
In his rich career, Dr Ouedraogo has been involved in different biotech crops projects for Africa such as cowpea and sorghum in Burkina Faso. He has been a nominated Member of the Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) External Advisory Board. Since October 2015, he is member of the Board of Trustees of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF).
Dr Ouedraogo was an elected Member of Burkina Faso Parliament from 2007 to April 2011 and also served as Minister of Animal Resources and Fisheries of Burkina Faso from 2011 to 2014.
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