CoRE Math - Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence in Mathematics

In 2024, CoRE-Math was selected as the 21st CoRE (Cluster of Research Excellence) to join the initiative led by ARUA (African Research Universities Alliance) and The Guild (The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities).

African partner universitites in CoRE Math are:

• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• University of Nairobi, Kenya
• University of Rwanda, Rwanda
• University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  
• Makerere University, Uganda
• University of Zambia, Zambia

European partner universitites in CoRE Math are:

• University of Vienna, Austria
  
• Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology, Finland
• University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• University of Groningen, Netherlands
• University of Bergen, Norway
• University of Oslo, Norway
• Linköping University, Sweden
• Stockholm University, Sweden
  
• Uppsala University, Sweden

Objectives

CoRE–Math aims to promote research collaboration between African and European universities with the intention of contributing to achieving the goals of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda. Specifically, the cluster seeks to:

• To develop capacity for research and postgraduate training in African universities
• To substantially increase the research outputs from research involving African and European partners
• To substantially increase high-quality collaborative postgraduate training in African universities
• To substantially increase the participation of women in postgraduate training and research in African universities
• To leverage mathematics to address socio-economic challenges, especially in Africa

The CoRE builds on ISP´s math programme EAUMP (Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme), which was established in 2002 to provide collaborative postgraduate training.

In this new phase, IPMS EAUMP and IPMS ETH01/AAU will become part of the CoRE-Math collaborative activities, welcoming excellent collaborators and addressing a wider spread of demands from societies in all parts of Europe and Africa.