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DIPARTIMENTO DI ENERGIA

The Master consists of 3 general modules and 3 specific modules: Introductory Module: Sustainable Development and the Challenge of Africa (6CFU) General Skills Module: Fundamentals of Geopolitics in Cooperation (6CFU) Instrumental Skills Module: Project Management/Research Innovative Teaching (5CFU) Module on Sustainable Agro-Food Chains (10CFU) Module on Sustainable and Just Energy Transition (10CFU) Module on Cultural heritage and its valorisation (10 CFU) Final project (13 CFU): The specialisation Master's course involves the assignment of a project work carried out in groups during which students will apply the knowledge acquired within the Modules and write a research proposal on a topic of interest to their university of origin or design a programme and syllabus (including innovative teaching) for a new teaching course.

The overall objective of this Master's degree is to support African universities by contributing to the improvement of personnel and the training of a qualified generation of young researchers and lecturers in line with a renewed centrality of the African continent synchronised with the interests of the university world and Italy, as confirmed by the strategies supported both by the Ministry of Universities and Scientific Research and by the more political level with the launch of the Mattei Plan and the declarations during the Italian G7 Presidency. In these years of great uncertainties and unpredictability, science has once again become a strategic asset: the European Commission itself, in 2021, launched the European Alliance for Science Diplomacy and activated working groups responding to the Global Service Facility in order to promote new paradigms of international cooperation and to increase the presence of scientific research in the global debate to inform policies. The Capacity for Science is central to the AU-EU Innovation Agenda promoted by the European Commission and the African Union, and this is the direction in which the Master's degree programme in question fits, in order to recognise the university world, science and higher education as having an added value: the spin-offs of (knowing how to) build a link in terms of principles and values with the future ruling class of the African continent and tie it to Italy would be more than significant in terms of sustainability as well. Within the AU-EU partnership, both continents are already committed to strengthening the overall framework of cooperation for science, technology and innovation (STI), which has been marked as a property of the Joint Africa Europe Strategy (JAES) since 2008. Moreover, this commitment is also a claim within the seven aspirations of the African Union (Agenda 2063) and with the people-centred approach of the Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030).

25 Eligible candidates will be researchers, lecturers and contract lecturers and collaborators of african Universities in possession of Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree. For foreign candidates, equivalent degrees will be considered valid in their respective study systems. Knowledge of English is recommended and preferably certified (level B2). Motivation and support letter are mandatory. An additional 10 places are available for post-doctoral researchers and young non-African lecturers at full cost.

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Co-Director: DIANA SHENDRIKOVA

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