2nd International Joint Conference of Kyoto University’s “Innovative Africa: Educational Networking Programs for Human Resource Development in Africa’s SDGs (IAfP: Innovative Africa Program)” Call for Presentations

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We will hold the 2nd International Joint Conference on December 20, 2021 as part of the project, “Innovative Africa: Educational Networking Programs for Human Resource Development in Africa’s SDGs (IAfP: Innovative Africa Program)” in Kyoto University.

In this project, a short-term program for African students is conducted from September to December 2021. At the conference, students who participated in the program will present their achievements.

We also welcome presentations by students from Africa and Japan who are not participating in the program. Oral presentations (video recording is acceptable) and poster sessions will be held at the conference. After the presentations, there will be comments from faculty members who specialize in each field, and discussions will be held with all participants.

The poster session will be held for one week for questions and answers via Slack, and a virtual core time will be held on December 17. In the poster session, you can use additional PowerPoint or video files with audio if you wish. After the conference, we plan to prepare proceedings. If you would like to make a presentation, please apply to the IAfP office according to the following information.

Date and time
 Conference: Monday, December 20, 16:00 – 20:00 (GMT +9)
 Poster Session: Dec. 13 – Dec. 20
 Poster Core Time: December 17, 16:45-18:15

・How to organize
 Conferences: ZOOM meetings
 Poster Session: A webpage and Slack (for related persons only)
 Poster Core Time: Virtual session by using “Spatial Chat”

・Language: English

・Entry
 If you are interested in presenting, please fill out the form and send it to us.
 Entry form: https://forms.gle/5fktJojMmLDCrPPR8
 Entry deadline: November 21, 2021 Extended to December 3, 2021
 Abstract deadline: December 3, 2021

・Time of presentation in the conference
 15 minutes for research presentation, 5 minutes for comments and Q&A,
 total 20 minutes.