In order to foster the internalization of African higher education institutions, FAST4Future promotes the standardization of PSST in Africa in order to support students’ mobility.
Focus on Africa Space Science and Technology for Future Development (FAST4Future), a partnership made up of Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Italy, and Sweden, was officially launched by the Pan African Planetary and Science Network (PAPSSN) earlier today. FAST4Future works to improve STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in African higher education.
Planetary and Science Technology (PSST) will be used to put this into practise in order to promote sustainable growth and the creation of jobs on a continent that is steadily advancing the fourth industrial revolution.
Graduates and young scientists benefit from soft and practical skills that are tailored to the needs of the 21st century in terms of digital innovation and job creation, which makes PSST valuable for important investments in Africa.
In order to foster the internalisation of African higher education institutions, FAST4Future promotes the standardisation of PSST in Africa in order to support students’ mobility.
It also seeks to increase access to STEM in higher education and modernise existing PSST programmes in accordance with industry and policymakers.
Last but not least, FAST4Future will support the development of a Centre for Excellence that will be connected to an online platform. This is being done to promote platform accessibility for the purpose of coordinated action.
The Pan-African Planetary and Space Science Network (PAPSSN) aims to establish a mobility programme for students, faculty, and support staff among partners from Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia in the thematic field of “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and Information and Communications Technology (ICT),” with a focus on Planetary and Space Sciences (PSS).
PAPSSN’s main goal is to support the growth of a community of talented and creative graduate students, enhance their job readiness for the expanding planetary and space science labour market in Africa, and support their ability to manage local infrastructure, produce local data, and interact with the global community of scientists and businesspeople.