NEW AFRICAN URBAN UNIVERSITY
Building partnerships to realise the promise and potential of sustainable urban transformations
Workshop Syntheses
The New African Urban University workshop synthesis report has just been published. The report includes a set of summary briefs that describe the outcomes of three workshops that have taken place in the first quarter of 2022.
The New African Urban University partnership is developing a research agenda to strengthen the role of African universities to advance just and sustainable urban transitions in African cities.
It is based on the assumption that universities must play a role in addressing the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, in particular, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 to make cities inclusive, safe, sustainable and resilient.
This partnership engages with the promise and potential of African universities to support the steering of just and sustainable urban transitions. By fostering a more global and inclusive understanding of systems changes required by African universities, this partnership initiative will develop a distinctive approach to theory and practice.
It is anticipated that the processes of knowledge exchange and mutual learning and sharing will serve to decenter the dominant discourses and approaches assumed to be universalized in contemporary debates.
A key objective of the partnership is to create spaces for global and local dialogue about the necessary systemic changes in different higher education sectors to optimize and integrate research, curriculum development and support transdisciplinary approaches for the implementation of SDG 11 in African cities.