The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is pleased to announce that the Ministry of Education and Skills Development, Botswana, to be represented by Botswana Open University (BOU), will co-host the Eleventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF11) with COL .
Grand Challenges Botswana – a new programme to fund impressive innovations Feb 25, 2021
The Botswana Innovation Hub today announced a new funding programme, Grand Challenges Botswana, to support bold and impressive innovations to accelerate progress towards achieving Botswana’s national development priorities and economic transformation.
The Botswana Innovation Hub partners with the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) – an initiative of the African Academy of Sciences, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and Global partners – to launch the Grand Challenges Botswana as a unique but collaborative initiative under the Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa) initiative.
GC Africa is an AESA programme that awards seed and full grants to the continent’s most impressive innovators to promote Africa-led scientific innovations that help countries better achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).