AAU will participate in the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education, *which will be held in Paris, France from 5 to 8 July. For more information: http://www.unesco.org/en/wche2009

The AAU through its DATAD programme took part in ETD2009 (Electronic Thesis and dissertation) network annual conference. This conference series is organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The 2009 conference was held June 10 - 13 at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. For more information please click here: http://www.library.pitt.edu/etd2009/

The AAU REN Unit organised a Workshop on "Social Networking Technologies for Teaching and Learning Transformation*" in Dakar on 26-27 May 2009. The workshop was organised organised in collaboration with the University of Manitoba and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa as a parallel event of the eLearning Africa 2009 Conference

The AAU (Through AFREN) took part in the African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC), 10th Meeting in Cairo, Egypt, 10 - 22 May 2009. For more information: http://www.afnog.org/index.html

AAU 12th General Conference ends in Abuja

Prof. Keto Mshigeni received the AAU Award

Leadership Development Worshop : 17-25 October 2009; Dakar, Senegal (the Workshop will be conducted in French)

AAU is pleased to publish Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative. Please clik here for more information

An opportunity at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center: The Institute Of International Education would like to notify you of an opportunity at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center

The Association of African Universities (AAU) and the UbuntuNet Alliance (UA) have signed a MoU in which the 2 organisations commit themselves to work together and with other stakeholders to promote research and education networking in Africa (http://www.aau.org/renu/docs/aau-ua_mou.pdf).

Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program 2010/11 Please click to download the application forms

The AAU is pleased to announce the 2008/2009 edition of its Academic Staff Exchange Programme which aims at facilitating academic mobility and encouraging networking among AAU member institutions, as well as contributing to improvements in the quality of training and research in African higher education institutions

DLR-DAAD Research Fellowships in the fields of Space, Aeronautics, Energy and Transportation Research. DLR-DAAD Fellowships offer outstanding scientists and researchers, highly-qualified foreign doctoral and postdoctoral students as well as senior scientists the opportunity to conduct special research at the institutes of the DLR in Germany. Fore more information, please visit http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/ausschreibungen/09009.de.html

Members in Good Standing That means, 0 to 2 years in membership subscription arrears..

UK announces support for higher education in Africa

The Association of African Universities (AAU) and the enLINK Initiative of the Nestlé Foundation launched a concerted action to offer free ordering and delivery of the orande enLINK trunk to selected institutions in low income countries