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This Wiki page highlights happenings and requests for proposals about innovation in Africa. Anyone can populate it. Just follow the previous entry in each category as a template to input your information. A Wiki bureaucrat will regularly remove outdated resources.

Events

 * 2018.04.05+3 - Yale's Contemporary African Arts & Culture Festival Africa Salon on Disrupting the Monopoly on "Superpower" for Black Youth & Interrogating the Politicization of Black Hair among others - New Haven, CT, USA


 * 2018.04.07 - MIT Africa Innovate Conference - Cambridge, MA, USA


 * 2018.04.07 - Columbia University African Economic Forum on African Innovation: Leveraging the Present to Shape the Future - New York, NY, USA


 * 2018.05.07+3 - Transform Africa Summit 2018 on Accelerating Africa's Single Digital Market - Kigali, Rwanda


 * 2018.06.06+2 - Africa Innovation Summit 2018 - Kigali, Rwanda


 * 2018.06.07+1 - #Afrobytes Tech Marketplace to meet THE key players of the Global African Tech Ecosystems - Paris, France

Grants

 * DL 2018.05.16 - AAS Grand Challenge New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance - South Africa based

Prizes

 * DL 2018.04.20 - NEPAD SANBio FemBioBiz Acceleration Programme for female entrepreneurs in the biosciences arena - SADC based


 * DL 2018.04.21 - SustyVibes #StareDownOnPollution Campaign video solutions to the waste management issues in Lagos State - Nigeria based


 * DL 2018.07.23 - RAEng Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Courses

 * DL 2018.04.09 - AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy 2018 - 20-24AUG2018 - Trieste, Italy


 * DL 2018.04.30 - IAP African Academies Diaspora Fellows Pilot Program - 7-day Diaspora fellow visit to the host academy


 * DL 2018.05.11 - AAS, BMGF, US-NIH African Postdoctoral Training Initiative on infectious diseases, nutrition, and reproductive, maternal, and child health and developing skills for clinical and translational research - two-year postdoctoral fellowship


 * DL 2018.05.14 - NRF-Nuffic Doctoral Scholarships 2018 in areas of (i) Science, (ii) Engineering, (iii) Technology, (iv) the Social Sciences and (v) Humanities - South Africa / the Netherlands