NANOSCIENCE AFRICAN NETWORK MISSION
● NANOAFNET, the NANOsciences AFrican NETwork, an initiative created in 2005 in Trieste-Italy under the patronage of the Abdus Salam ICTP, UNESCO, IAEA, TWAS and the ICS-UNID, and supported by several international agencies, is the African continent voice in the emerging field of nanosciences and nanotechnology.
Vision
● NANOAFNET’s bipolar vision consists of enhancing the global visibility and contribution of Africa in nanosciences while developing cost effective nanotechnologies to address urgent continental societal needs in the water, energy and health sectors.§
Programs
● NANOAFNET’s major ongoing programs are:
(i) Human Capital Development in Africa: Junior visiting scientists and postgraduate fellowship program,
(ii) Human Capital Mobility: Senior visiting scientist fellowship program,
(iii) E-learning & e- scientific literature free access,
(iv) International partnership and access to large facilities.
Highlights
● Supervision of about 45 postgraduates from all over Africa,
● Double PhD diploma ”Francophone/Anglophone diplomas”,
●Several Cum Laude and 1 Magna Cum Laude recognitions for postgraduate network fellows,
● International awards to the network fellows: Fullbright, Francis-Taylor, Cambridge, l’Oreal-Unesco awards…,
● 3 OWSDW awards (Organization of Women in Sciences for Developing Countries),
● 1 Nobel foundation-Lindau award for a network postgraduate,
● 76 ISI peer reviewed co-authored publications since 2005,
● 2012 publication in Physics Reports, a journal with an impact factor of 19.5,
● 2009 publication in Nature Materials by the network NCP in Lesotho; a journal with an impact factor of 27,
● Highlight in Nature Materials, Vol.11-2012 on a recent achievement of the network in nanophotonics field,
● 1st observation of the Anderson localization in CNTs by an MSc female postgraduate network fellow,
● 1st demonstration of the plasma frequency femtosecond tunability in nanoplasmonics,
● 2 EU-FP7 partnerships via the ICPCNANONET and COST action 702,
● 1 US-NSF partnership via Clark Atlanta University and Princeton University,
● 2012 recognition by the African Materials Research Society, Victoria falls-Zimbabwe,
● 2012 recognition by the Nelson Mandela African university for Science & Technology, Abuja-Nigeria
● 2011 recognition by the African Union, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia,
● 2010 recognition by the African Academy of Science, Nairobi-Kenya,
● 2009 recognition by African Physical Society, Accra-Ghana,
● Junior visiting scientists since 2007 fully sponsored:
•Algeria: 5
•Morocco: 4
•Senegal:7
•Nigeria: 4
•Cameroon: 3
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•Ghana:2
•Burkina Fasso: 1
•Sudan:2
•Ethiopia: 5
•Zambia: 2 |
•Malawi:2
•Botswana:3
•Libya: 1
•France:4
•South Africa:18 |
● Senior visiting scientists since 2007 fully sponsored:
•Algeria:7
•Morocco: 4
•Mali:1
•Senegal:9
•Nigeria: 12
•Kenya: 3
•Zimbabwe:5
•France:7
•Spain: 1 |
•Cameroon: 8
•Ghana: 6
•Sudan:7
•Ethiopia: 3
•Zambia: 2
•Mozambique:1
•Japan: 1
•Italy:9
•Canada: 7 |
•Rwanda:2
•Malawi:1
•Tanzania:2
•Botswana: 2
•Lesotho: 4
•USA:10
•UK:2 |