Future Africa Leadership Fellowship

The Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) is an early career research fellowship program focussed on developing transdisciplinary research  and leadership skills. In particular, the programme seeks to build a network of emerging African scientists who have the skills to apply transdisciplinary approaches and to collaborate to address complex challenges in the human well-being and environment nexus in Africa.

African challenges can usually not be answered by or within one topic: we need solutions that comes from across different disciplines. Transdisciplinarity brings a bottom-up approach involving the community who are affected by issues addressed in the research. To address these complex, inter-linked challenges of health, well-being, and environmental risks in Africa, the program recognises the value of creating a long-term network of future-focussed science leaders with transdisciplinary research skills, who can address the challenges of a post-Covid-19 society.