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Senegal’s Centre d’excellence Africain pour la sante de la mere et de l’enfant (CEA-SAMEF) – African Centre of Excellence – Mother and Child Health – is the second institution to submit an RFI report for validation by the RFI team. This report will be reviewed and validated, after which CEA-SAMEF will be able to display the...

The Université Alouine Diop de Bambey, Senegal, is the first ever institution to compile and submit an RFI report, following the RFI implementation workshops that took place in Dakar, Senegal on 12-14 June, 2017. This makes them potentially the first ever RFI institution, with Africa leading the way forward! The next step in the process will...

The RFI and CAAST-Net Plus ran an RFI Implementation Workshop in Dakar, Senegal from June 11-13, 2017. This workshop was a success and many participants expressed their interest in the RFI and it’s core principles. The following photographs were taken during to the newly opened laboratory of IRESSEF (Institut de Recherche en Santé / Health Research Institute, in...

Senegal’s Ministry of Higher Education and Research (Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche) posted video’s on YouTube and on their webpage discussing the RFI and the implementation workshop that took place on 11-12 June 2017. See the clip below, or go to their page discussing the RFI for more information.    

Dr Cathy Garner attended the Global Challenges Research Fund’s (GCRF) Global Engagement Event on June 8, 2017 at the British Academy in London. She was on the panel discussing Fair and Equitable Research Partnerships.

The first session of the ARESA meeting was devoted to partnerships in research. There were two presentations that were very complementary. Carel presented a talk with the title: “The Research Fairness Initiative – Beyond Ethics?”.

Three articles have been recently published in the light of the RFI entering its implementation stage around the world: [bscolumns class=”one_third”] In February 2017, the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) have published a piece on the Research Fairness Initiative on their blog. Please access the article here. 

  The Secretariat of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) (https://www.acu.ac.uk) convened a meeting of its core staff to discover the RFI and discuss its potential use as a tool by the Secretariat and / or to recommend to its membership of over 500 universities worldwide.

  The 2-hour meeting was kindly hosted by the UKCDS (www.ukcds.org.uk). It was attended by 14 persons representing 7 of the major UK research funding agencies operating in the international environment.

The RFI was mentioned in the editorial of the Swiss National Science Foundation Magazine, Horizons, in its 111th edition. Access the full Horizon No. 111 here.