The ACBF and the African Institutions Of Science And Technology (AIST) program was developed at the request of three African Institutions of Scienceand Technology and the Nelson Mandela Institution (NMI), a Pan-African body with a vision topromote excellence in science and engineering education in Africa. This joint proposal fromthree of Africa’s centers of excellence in Science education represents ACBF’s contribution toaddress Africa’s need to develop its homegrown capacity in sciences and technologyinnovations. In 2012 the Executive Board approved a combined grant of US$ 10.5 millionin support of the three Science and Technology centres of excellence in Burkina Faso, Nigeria andTanzania as well as the coordinating institution (NMI).
The goal of the project is to strengthen institutional, technical and managerial capabilities of the NM-AIST in order to enhance its effectiveness as a world class institution by providing the best facilities for graduate and post-doc studies and research that would facilitate bridging between research and industrial development through effective technological innovations for sustainable economic development of the continent.
