BRAINS

About BRAINS

BRAINS is the acronym for MoBility for Research and African Integration through Health Sciences.

Aim

The overall objective is to enhance human capital development in Africa, while strengthening intra-African collaboration as called for by Agenda 2063. The program aims to increase the employability of students, improve the quality of higher education in Africa and its relevance to our development agenda, and to strengthen, modernize and internationalize African higher education institutions.

Disclaimer

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), in the context of managing the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme, collects and processes the personal data of some of the candidates. In particular, certain data of the scholarship holders (students and staff members) and reserve list candidates is shared with the Agency through the EACEA Mobility Tool and treated according to the following privacy statement “

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Program Structure

Our Areas of Focus

Data Acquisition

Data acquisition using contemporary high-throughput technologies

Analysis of ‘Big Data’

Hands-on Disease

Hands-on disease-specific experience.

Program Structure

The Programme’s Objectives

Increase the employability of students,
Improve the quality of higher education in Africa and its relevance to Africa’s development vision,
Strengthen the modernisation and internationalisation of African higher education institutions,
Promote the development of an African higher education and research space.