CoBaSys reports from Namibia can be found from publications.
CoBaSys project partner in Namibia is the University of Namibia, the Multidisciplinary Research Centre, Social Sciences Division. This organization is the leader of the WP5, Build-up of cooperative networks EU-Africa. Namibian project partner organized the CoBaSys Mid Term Meeting together with the Finnish project partner, the University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research. Meeting was held in Namibia in 27-29 April, 2011.
University of Namibia, Multidisciplinary Research Centre, Social Sciences Division (UNAM), Namibia
The Social Sciences Division (SSD) is a functional department of the Multidisciplinary Research Centre (MRC), a specialized research unit of the University of Namibia created in 1994. The key mission of the MRC is to promote, conduct and coordinate applied and academic research and to provide advisory services to the Government of Namibia and to rural community in particular. The specific task of the SSD is to carry out basic and applied social sciences research of intellectual and material development to Namibia. The Division’s research themes are structured around five intertwined and multidisciplinary thematic priorities: land reform studies, regional and local development studies, gender-based violence and equality studies, education and human resources development studies, HIV/AIDS and poverty studies and community development and policy. In particular, the SSD, together with the Department of Sociology, has carried out research on universal access to health services and integration of HIV/AIDS in the education system. The Division has long experience in international research collaboration and currently has functional bilateral agreements with more than 15 universities and research centers in Africa and abroad. Within the CoBaSys project UNAM, with the Social Sciences Division, is the partner in charge of WP5 – Build-up of cooperative networks Europe-Africa, which aims to create a framework for inter-regional and international cooperation and to strengthen integration of the involved African countries into the European Science and Technology (S&T) framework.
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