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.

Mattia Prayer Galletti

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised agency of the United Nations

https://ifad.org/en/

Mattia Prayer Galletti is the Lead Technical Specialist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), focusing on Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Issues.

Prayer Galletti joined IFAD in 1988. For more than twenty years, he has worked as Country Programme Manager in the Asia and the Pacific Division, overseeing country programs in Bhutan, Laos, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific-sub-region, Iran, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. In 2011, he moved to the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD as Senior Evaluation Officer, responsible for corporate-level evaluations.

Prayer Galletti holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna, Italy, and a master’s degree in Economics of Agro-Food Systems and Development Studies from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He also lectures at UC Berkeley during the fall semester.

AERAP Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Forum 2023

Mattia Prayer Galletti

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