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.

Regina Nthenya

AOSK
AOSK Health Association coordinator
Nairobi Kenya

I am a catholic Nun working with the Association of sisterhoods of Kenya. A nurse by profession and passionate about mental health and well-being of people.
Currently a student at Tangaza University College pursuing BA in Counselling Psychology. My greatest desire is to reduce the burden of treatment for the poor. The cost of health and well-being is very expensive and poverty margin seems to be increasing day by day, the poor becoming poorer and the rich richer. Reducing the margin is a dream, but reducing the cost for health for the marginalized can increase my joy and peace. Digital health will do this in the sense that, e-health and tele-medicine at the grassroots will ease life threatening experiences for the poor.

So, If you want to talk to me, tell me how we can equip the remote health facilities managed by Catholic Nuns with diagnostic machines, and give the poor a chance to receive the same health services as the rich, and safe both the life of the poor and the rich.
Mental health issues are on the increase, talk to me how we can empower the Nuns to carry out family Ministry to sensitize on the issues and empower the families on mental health and well-being at least we can reduce suicide cases.
you can also talk to me about life in general.

AERAP Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Forum 2023

Regina Nthenya

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