The call for proposals for the third edition of the “Academia Partnerships Africa-France” (PeA) program, formerly “Partnerships with African Higher Education”, has been published to fund five or six new projects with overall budget of  €15 million

Deadline: 6 May 2025.

Financed by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) via the Agence française de développement (AFD), the PeA is in line with France’s political will to double the partnerships between African and French higher education and research institutions and rounds off the policy of welcoming African students in France. It is implemented with support from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) by the Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR – French National Research Agency) with Campus France to coordinate PeA seminars.

Eligibility

The PeA will be open to South Africa, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Togo. By broadening its support to new countries and projects, the PeA is helping to promote access to higher education for young people on the African continent and meet demands for skills needed for the countries’ sustainable development. 

The PeA supports projects that: 

±       Are driven by a consortium coordinated by a higher education or research institution in a PeA 3-eligible African country, on the one hand, and a French higher education or research institution, possibly bolstered by other such French institutions, on the other hand;

±       Aim at stepping up and implementing training programmes covering Bachelor’s (3 years of study), Master’s (5 years of study) and/or PhD (8 years of study) levels and delivered in Africa;

±       Target a sector that is a priority for the country’s or region’s socio-economic development, where training capacity falls short of employment capacities;

±       Help to build the capacities and skills of the African country in managing this sector; 

±       Explicitly promote gender equality  in terms of access and success; and

±       Anticipate the required academic and financial sustainability of the training partnership. 

The projects will be supported over 4.5 years with project funding ranging from €1.5–3 million

Consult the call for proposals at: https://anr.fr/en/call-for-proposals-details/call/specific-call-for-proposals-academia-partnerships-africa-france-3rd-edition-pea3-2025/