APhRICA training

The CIMPA school is part of a more structured training programme called APhRICA (Advanced Physics Training and Collaboration with Africa). During the two-year programme, in addition to the schools in Nairobi, APhRICA participants attend two two-week intensive courses per year at the East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR) in Kigali, Rwanda, on basics of quantum mechanics and Green’s function theory for the many-electron problem. 

Besides training Masters and PhD students, APhRICA also aims to train young faculty with the skills and teaching practices needed to deliver density-functional theory and Green's-function theory at the master and PhD level. The goal is that, in the near future, local lecturers can run these training activities independently, without the support of colleagues from Europe. The broader aim is to foster the development of computational materials science in the region, through a long term in-depth training effort, with more focus on theoretical understanding. This will create a new generation of experts: lecturers and researchers, who not only use methods and codes developed abroad, but also contribute with advances in methodology, and code development.

The call for the 3rd Cohort (2026-2028) selection will be published soon.