AFRICA SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE MOBILITY

WELCOME TO ASIM

A consortium made up of Ardhi University, Covenant University, University of Johannesburg, University of Malawi – The Polytechnic and Leeds Beckett University participated and was awarded a grant on the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme Call Reference No. EACEA/07/2020. The award was on the proposed action entitled Africa Sustainable Infrastructure Mobility (ASIM).

ASIM is a collaboration between four African universities and one EU Technical partner with a primary objective of developing education, training, and research capacity for African professionals to enhance the delivery of Africa’s sustainable infrastructure.

The Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme supports higher education cooperation between countries in Africa and aims to promote sustainable development by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professional manpower in Africa. The primary objective is to improve the skills and competences of students and staff through enhanced mobility between African countries. The Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme is set up under the Pan-African Programme (Development Cooperation Instrument)

The focus of the academic mobility is twofold: developing a pool of highly qualified professionals in sustainable infrastructure development benefiting and learning from unique and diverse African challenges, and improving the quality of education provision as a means to enhance sustainable infrastructure delivery.

The primary aim of this project, therefore, is to increase the talent pool of expertise in infrastructure and to develop the capacity of African HEI to deliver sustainable infrastructure education.

Our vision

1. Develop a pool of highly qualified professionals in sustainable infrastructure development.

2. Developing, benefiting and learning from unique and diverse African challenges.

3. Improve the quality of education provision.

4. Enhance sustainable infrastructure delivery.

Application Calls

Call	Application Period	Status
1st Cohort Degree Seeking	1 March 2021 – 31 July 2021	Closed
2nd Cohort Degree Seeking	1 September 2021 – 31 November 2022	Closed
3rd Cohort Degree Seeking	1 March 2022 – 30 June 2022	Closed
Credit Mobility Hosting	1 January 2025 – 31 March 2025	Open
Staff Mobility Hosting	1 February 2022 – 31 June 2024	Closed

Applications for Scholarships open

ASIM IMPLEMENTATION RESULTS

Number of applications: 537

Number of awards: 73

Number of completed: 48

Synergies with other projects

SPREE | https://www.spreeafrica.com/
AWaRMN | https://www.ru.ac.za/intra-africa-awarmn/
DII Conference | https://diiconference.org
Wood-to-Wood | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101138789

ASIM REPRESENTATIVES

TANZANIA

Dr Neema Kavishe
Ardhi University,
Tanzania

NIGERIA

Prof David Olukanni
Covenant University,
Nigeria

MALAWI

Dr Theresa Mkandawire
University of Malawi –
The Polytechnic, Malawi

SOUTH AFRICA

Prof Innocent Musonda
University of Johannesburg,
South Africa

UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Sambo Zulu
Leeds Becket University,
United Kingdom

ASIM PARTNERS

If you would like to read more about ASIM partners, please click on the logos below.

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