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Building the Capacity of Selected sub-Sahara African Countries to Effectively Measure Progress in their Nationally Determined Contributions’ Implementation Using Tracking Tools and Indexes Project Duration: 2022 – 2025 Grantor: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Principal Investigator: Dr Nicholas Ozor Contact Email: executivedirector@atpsnet.org Co-PIs: Dr. Mithika Mwenda (PACJA) and Prof. Chidi Magnus Onuoha (WAGEDI) Grant Amount: USD 433,730.50 Project Description/Background Numerous attempts …

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Delivering place based Entrepreneurial capacity building in Africa (DIFFERENTIATE) Project Duration: October 2021- October 2022Principal Investigator: Prof. Kirk SempleContact detail: k.semple@lancaster.ac.uk Project Partner: Dr. Nicholas OzorContact Detail: executivedirector@atpsnet.orgGrantor: British CouncilGrant Amount: £ 100,000 Project Description:Universities play an essential role in creating new knowledge and innovations and training the next generation of leaders, engineers, and scientists. Yet more than half of 420 million young …

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University-led Ecosystems for a Sustained Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Project Duration: March 2022 to August 2022 Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Ngoasong Contact detail: michael.ngoasong@open.ac.uk Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicholas Ozor Contact detail: executivedirector@atpsnet.org Grantor: British Council Grant Amount: £ 20,000 Project Description:This project will promote university-led ecosystems as anchoring institutions for delivering self-sustaining innovation and entrepreneurship education that contributes to Kenya’s development. Conceptualising …

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Technological Innovation Development in Africa to Enhance Employability, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation (TIDE) Project Duration: 2021-2023 Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicholas Ozor  Email: nozor@atpsnet.org Grantor: African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Grant Amount: US$ 500,000 Project DescriptionThe youth are Africa’s greatest asset. Africa’s youth population is rapidly growing and expected to double to over 830 million by 2050 (AfDB, 2016). If properly harnessed, this …

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Managing Organization (Hub) for Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture and Food Systems (AI4AFS) Innovation Research Network in Africa Project Duration: 2021-2024 Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicholas Ozor  Email: nozor@atpsnet.org Co-PIs: Dr Henri Tonnang (Icipe) and Jorge Kwadwo Appiah (Kumasi Hive) Other partners: International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and Kumasi Hive Grantor: International Development Research Center (IDRC) and the Swedish International …

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Understanding the Policy and Institutional Landscape for Technological Innovation Development in Africa to Enhance Youth Employability, Entrepreneurship and Job Creation (UPTIER) Project Duration: 15-11-2021 to 15-05-2023Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicholas Ozor  Email: nozor@atpsnet.orgGrantor: Mastercard FoundationGrant Amount: US$ 249,616.00 Project DescriptionThe youth are Africa’s greatest asset. Africa’s youth population is rapidly growing and expected to double to over 830 million by 2050 (AfDB, …

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Strengthening Urban REsilience in FOOD and nutrition security in Kenya (SURE-FOOD) Project Duration: 2021 – 2024Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Alfonso Sousa – PozaCo-PI: Dr. Catherine Kunyanga Project Partner: Dr. Nicholas OzorContact Detail: executivedirector@atpsnet.orgGrantor: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)Grant Amount: EUR 752,000  Project Description Nairobi is among the fastest growing cities in Africa, and will be among the African megacities …

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Mapping Research Infrastructure to Enhance the Resilience of Science Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa Project Duration:  October 2020 – April 2022Grantor:  International Development Research Centre (IDRC)ATPS Contact Person: Dr. Nicholas Ozor, Executive Director, ATPSContact Email: nozor@atpsnet.org; executivedirector@atpsnet.org Partners: Prof. Jonathan Mba; PI, Association of African Universities (AAU) Dr. Nicholas Ozor, African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) Dr. Chux Daniels, …

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An Analytical Note on “Higher Education Science, Technology and Innovation, Research and Development (R&D) and Entrepreneurship in Africa” Project Duration:  August 2020 – February 2021Grantor:  AfDB (African Development Bank)Contacts: Dr. Nicholas Ozor, Executive Director, ATPSContact Email: nozor@atpsnet.org; nicholas.ozor@unn.edu.ngProject Director: Dr. Nicholas OzorProject Value: USD 83,000 Project Description/Background With huge unemployment figures in Africa (World Bank, 2020); mismatch between skills supply …

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First Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP) Eastern Africa Regional Policy Conference Theme: Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in the COVID-19 EraProject Duration:  August – December 2020 Grantor: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars – USAContacts: Dr. Nicholas Ozor, Executive Director, ATPSContact Email: executivedirector@atpsnet.orgProject Director: Dr. Nicholas OzorProject Value: USD 13,000 Project Description/Background The project aims to achieve the following; increased …

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