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‘Let the Sun Shine’: The future’s bright with the African Network for Solar Energy 
The newly created ‘African Network for Solar Energy’ (ANSOLE) met at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria on February 4th, in a dynamic and fruitful second symposium that saw it make great strides in planning the next phase of its development, taking the status of the network to a new level. 
Members of the African Network for Solar Energy ANSOLE kicked off to a strong start in November last year at its first symposium in Sousse, Tunisia, where the goals of the network were established. The network aims to foster research activities in the field of solar energy among African scientists working within Africa and those in the diaspora. In the first instance, it will connect and skill up young Africans in the solar energy field with an overarching objective of developing solar energy research capacity. In the process, it will facilitate the exchange of students and scientists involved in solar energy research, formulate joint project proposals, publish joint publications, organize networking and research exchange workshops and implement a graduate programme on solar energy. View Presentations >>
The meeting was attended by the Institute of Nanotechnology (UK) in its role as project leader of the EC funded ICPC-Nanonet project (www.icpc-nanonet.org), which has joined the network in an advisory capacity to support its activities and to build bridges between ANSOLE and complementary institutes for research project proposals. In addition to the delegation from the Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells, the attendees included representatives from the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon; Lagos State University, Nigeria; Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rabat, Morocco; the Université de Fes, Morocco; the University of Tunis, Tunisia; the Nanosciences African Network, iThemba LABS; a SARCHi chairholder in Pretoria and Aalborg University, Denmark; the Polytechnic Institute of Yamoussoukro, Cote D´Ivoire and Selçuk University, Turkey. The symposium was also attended by representatives from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), who are supporting this initiative and SOLIMPEKS (Solar Energy Systems) Turkey, who provided valuable sponsorship for the event. |
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