Paper long abstract:

The African Science Partnership for Intervention Research Excellence (ASPIRE), is a pan-African research consortium for capacity building in "One Health". Collaborating with 21 institutions from 14 African and European countries, its research focuses on ecosystem and population health by broadening disciplinary, sectoral, linguistic, cultural and geographic boundaries. With nearly 65 Postdocs, PhD and Master students, ASPIRE conducts interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on diseases at the human-animal-environment interface (zoonoses). This includes surveillance-responses of endemic diseases as well as research of emerging, communicable and foodborne diseases.

Afrique One-ASPIRE is one of eleven beneficiaries of the DELTAS Africa initiative, an independent funding mechanism of the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa(AESA) of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), supported by the New Partnership for Africa's Development, Development Planning and Coordination Agency (NEPAD) with financial support from the Wellcome Trust and the British Department for International Development (DFID).

In our presentation we will share the experience of this excellence initiative in Africa.