Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) Hub

Capacity building

Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA) sees implementing a strong program in capacity building and training as central to achieving its mission. BecA provides opportunities to increase the capacity of institutions and individuals in Africa to conduct biosciences-related research, and to develop and deliver new technologies. It does this through providing opportunities for young scientists to work with more experienced mentors for research experience, short- and long-term training, workshops and seminars, and access to ongoing learning through distance education.

In the area of capacity building and training, there is a need to establish partnerships with African universities, and with internationally renowned research groups to develop systematic capacity building and training programs. Opportunities are continuously being sought by BecA to identify synergies with current programs, and to complement them. This includes enabling access to the facilities and services available at the BecA Hub, regional nodes and/or other participating laboratories, by other biosciences programs in Africa, where these facilities and services would be helpful for the conduct of their research and capacity building and training activities.

The BecA Hub offers the following capacity building and training services:

Co-supervision of thesis related research, in association with specific projects.
Conduct of short courses and workshops.
Seminar series, including traveling seminars to various countries in the region.
Group and individual practical and theoretical training

The BecA Hub promotes scientific excellence by bringing together a critical mass of scientists drawn from national, regional and international institutions in modern facilities where they can undertake cutting edge research.

At the BecA Hub, extensive biosciences capacity in livestock-related research is provided through BecA Hub, while crop biosciences capacity is being provided by the following hosted institutes: the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI).

Raising awareness and building capacity in bioinformatics in Africa is one of the major focus areas. This is accomplished through regular training courses and research projects undertaken at the BecA Hub. In association with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, in Uppsala, Sweden, BecA and BecA Hub run an annual two-week “Introduction to Bioinformatics” training course. Since 2005, we have trained more than 100 students from more than five eastern and central Africa countries in the field of bioinformatics.

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