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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.
avatar for Convenor: Yousef Torman

Convenor: Yousef Torman

Science Cooperation Advocate
Jordan
For around thirty years, I worked in ICT at highly reputable institutions in the higher education and scientific research sector. During my work, my main focus was to use technology, mainly ICT, for the development and enhancing the lives of people in my community and beyond through better use of new technologies in education and scientific research”. In 1989, I started my work as an Engineer at the Computer Center of Jordan University for Science and Technology, being responsible for establishing the campus network and installing high-end main servers and managing the students' and academics' computing and services environments services.

In 1999, I successfully established and managed the New Computer and Information Center at Jordan University of Science and Technology and was promoted to the Director of that Center. At that time, we served around 16000 students, 3500 faculty and staff member through advanced infrastructure and a wide range of services beyond campus borders.

In 2005, and at the national level, I established and managed the Jordanian National Research and Education Network (Jordanian Universities Network (JUNet), serving 11 Universities with more than 250000 students and 25000 faculty and staff members all were connected to the national and global research and education networks.

In 2012, and at the regional level, I played a prominent and critical role in the efforts and initiatives that aimed to establish a Pan-Arab regional e-Infrastructure for education scientific research for a long time. These efforts were concluded by establishing the Arab States Research and Education Network – ASREN – for which I am currently the Managing Director—hoping to serve hundreds of Universities in the Arab Region and to connect them with other regional and global research and education networks to enable collaboration and facilitate access to educational and research resources and services around the world.

Ambition
I firmly believe that the only way to develop research and education and enhance our communities and the lives of people in our countries is by using new technologies rather than going traditional. Therefore, my focus and ambition now is to help provide the appropriate communication networks and tools to the Arab research and education community.
This can be achieved by establishing dedicated national and regional research and education networks. It has been realised globally that it is essential to establish dedicated networks with advanced communication and collaboration tools, computing services and applications to the research and education communities at both national and international levels. This will provide a comprehensive environment for the researchers to extend their research and collaboration beyond their labs and lecture halls.

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