The Biennial Conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholders in both agriculture and higher education sectors. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. The theme of the 2018 Conference is “Aligning African Universities to accelerate attainment of Africa’s Agenda 2063”.

The Challenge of Leadership: Driving Africa’s Future

The 2018 Research Workshop Towards Personalized Guidance and Support for Learning, co-organitzed with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), focuses on the crucial and changing roles of teachers in supporting student learning in the digital world. A PhD Student Symposium, that will take place as part of the EDEN RW, has been designed for doctoral students doing research in the area of Personalized Guidance and Support for Learning, while providing a discussion forum for the advancement of doctoral research.