Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) is part of a network of African Institutions of Science and Technology (AISTs), established as brainchild of the late Nelson Mandela and the World Bank.

1. Developing NM-AIST into a
Research University
Motto : Academia for Industry and Society
Hulda Shaidi Swai
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2. How bad is the knowledge gap in Africa?
Red = Post Primary,
Blue = Post Secondary,
Green = Post Tertiary
Source: World Bank 2010
Value addition to
Human Capital –
Finland & Korea, &
LIC

3. Source: www.worldmapper.org
Science &Technology Performance
– a function ofValue-addition to Human Capital
Tertiary Education
Patent registration
Population
Scientific research
“… in the final analysis it is basically the mystery and utilization
of modern science and technology which distinguishes the South
from the North”. Abdus Salam Nobel Laurete, 1979
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4. Africa in the global knowledge
production: Skills productions
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
1999 2002 2005 2008 2011
World
Africa
Asia
South
America
Gross enrolment in tertiary growing but remains
By 2050, 40% ofAfrica’s workforce will have a secondary
school education.

5. 0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
GDP per capita (constant 2010 US$)
Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanzania
Zambia
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

6. Possible reasons
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7. Overview of Korea’s selected STI trends
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
GERD (% of GDP 0.25 0.38 0.77 1.87 2.39 3.37
BERD (% of GDP) 0.0075 0.11 0.28 1.51 1.79 2.56
PERD (% of GDP) 0.24 0.27 0.49 0.36 0.60 0.81
R&D researcher per
million
70
(1965)
170 480 1640 2932 6456
Firms with in-house
R&D
46 966 7,110
Gross enrolment
ration (tertiary, %)
7.2 12.8 36.9 78.4 99.7
Patent application
(USPTO)
3 8 225 3,786 35,000

8. The perfect and not so perfect scores:
Tanzania
1990 2000 2010 2014
Agriculture, value added (% of GDP) 46.0 33.5 32.0 31.0
Employment in agriculture (% of total
employment) 84.2 82.1 70.0 66.9
Share of youth not in education,
employment, or training, total (% of
youth population) .. .. .. 31.8
Research and development expenditure
(% of GDP) .. .. 0.4 0.5
Researchers in R&D (per million
people) .. .. 35.0 18.5
Physicians (per 1,000 people) .. 0.030 0.008 0.031
Scientific and technical journal articles 69.0 140.4 369.0 378.9
GDP (current US$ billions 4.3 10.2 31.4 48.2

10. Centre for Research, Agricultural Advancement,
Teaching Excellence and Sustainability - FNS
(CREATES)
Leading Transformative Academic Change
Prof. Hulda Shaidi Swai
(Center Director)
Prof. Anna Treydte
(Deputy Center Director)
January 2018

11. Challenges
addressed by
CREATES
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1. Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the region
ranges from 37% in Uganda, 44% in Tanzania to
76% in Ethiopia

14. Underlying Causes
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15. 1. Post harvest losses: currently up to 38%;
No processing no preserving
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16. 2. Overexploitation of natural resources
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17. 3. Increasingly unpredictable climatic
variations
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19. 4.WATER-EFFICIENT AGRICULTURE
• Traditional
approaches and
modern technology
can be combined to
create agriculture
that withdraws less
water and
produces more
crops.

20. 5. Knowledge & technology gap on how
to mitigate food & nutrition insecurity
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21. Overall Objective of CREATES
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To strengthen the capacity of NM-AIST to serve as an African
Centre of Excellence in
 Graduate Training (Post doc,Master and PhD)
 Applied Research
 Outreach Programs for Food and Nutrition Security

22. Specific Objectives
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1. To provide innovative opportunities and novel learning environments for
PhD & MSc students, Post-docs, faculty and relevant stakeholders.(workshop
held in collaboration JIC, ILRI/BECCA& NM-AIST)
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24. 2. To educate future scientists to become
job-creators, not job-seekers
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25. 3. To reach out to marginalized groups including
women through outreach programs
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26. CREATES Implementation Approaches
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27. CREATES Implementation Approaches
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28. Innovative intervention/products
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29. 4. To produce high quality evidence-based research
products, technologies and services
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30. Marine Biotechnology: Seaweed farming and shellfish for
improving the socio-economics of poor communities

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32. Sustainable
Agriculture
Food and
Nutrition
Sciences
Global Health
and
Biomedical
Sciences
Biodiversity
Conservation
and
Ecosystem
Management
Increasedfood
production
Betterfood
availabilityand
access
Improved
agricultural
technologies
Diseasecontrol
Sustainableuseof
resources
Enhanced
product
processing,
quality and
safety,
marketing
Monitoring,
modelling,
land use
strategies
Disease
surveillance,
modelling,
herbal
medicine
technologies
Climate change
adaptation and mitigation
Food and Nutrition Security
ClinicalHumanNutritionandDietetics
Bio-Engineering&IndustrialPharmacy

33. Budget: US$ 6,000,000 for 5 years
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Indicator of results Baseline 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
# PhD students enrolled
[% of which are regional, females]
15 25 30 35 45 50
# MSc students enrolled
[% of which are regional, females]
19 39 44 50 55 60
# new short term course
participants [% of which are
regional, females]
10 30 60 70 80 90
# internationally accredited
education programs
0 2 2 2 1
# MOUs on collaborations (including
the industry) and partnerships for
applied research and training by
CREATES - FNS
8 4 6 10 15 20

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35. Progress so far
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36. Graduate Enrolments-2017
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
Degree Female Male National Regional Total
MSc 10 7 13 4 17
PhD 7 5 8 4 12

37. Graduate Applicants -2018
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Degree Female Male Nationals Regional Total
applicants
MSc 55 209 154 110 264
PhD 12 76 65 22 88

38. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
JOURNEY
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39. Accreditation of quality of education
programs
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National Accreditation:
 Curriculum gap analysis
• Needs Assessment Meeting
• Inception Workshop meeting
• Public Consultation Meetings
• Alumni Survey

40. • Needs Assessment
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41. • Inception workshop
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42. • PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Dar es Salaam stake holders / Sokoine
University of Agriculture
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MSc in the School of
Life Sciences
 Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Management
 Food and Nutrition
Sciences
 Global Health and
Biomedical Sciences
 Sustainable Agriculture
 Bioengineering
MSc in Sustainable Agriculture (national)
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Agriculture systems Management
• Molecular plant breeding
MSC in Biodiversity & Ecosystem Management
(national)
• Sustainable Management of Biodiversity
• Molecular Biodiversity & Bio-prosperity
MSc in Conservation & Management of African
Ecosystems (Unv. Of Glasgow; international)
MSc in Food and Nutrition Sciences (national)
• Food Biotechnology /Processing
• Food Safety/Regulation
MSc in Clinical Human Nutrition and Dietetics
(Rwanda Unv.; regional)
MSc in Global Heath & Biomedical Sciences
(national)
Industrial Pharmacy/Biotechnology Innovation &
Regulatory Sciences ( Purdue Unv.; international)
Bioengineering (Hunan Unv.; international)
Public Health (Rwanda Unv. ;regional)
Current program
Newly prepared programs going
through approvals
Revised the Life Sciences Program to form new MSc programs so far

44. What is new about these about ACE
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45. Create a new and better
GRADUATES
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Develop a new product

46. What are the components at your
disposal
Curriculum
upgrading
Network
Partnerships
Applied
Research
Physical Learning
environment
Inspire, motivate
empower

47. THE BIG QUESTION
How can we design innovative programs
Can Industrilise our country,
Can propell innovation and economy at large
Are for job growth and job creation
Can create graduates who are passionate motivated and
can think out of the box
What are our strengths and where are our weaknesses
Research Intensive University ; very few courses 20%
teaching/learning, 40%Research 40% outreach

48. State of the art
Infrastructure
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54. DLR#2.6: Faculty and PhD student exchanges to promote
regional and Intern. research and teaching
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 All CREATES PhD and MSC students will be attached to partner
laboratories:
Philip Mashamba: ’Bean bio fortification’’-Rubona Center; Rwanda
Daniel Shadrack: ‘’Biometric Science’’; Italy
Dr. Michael Haule: Management of internationalization; (Germany)
6 students will be attached to HUNAN Unv. of S&T; China
2-4 students will be attached University of Western Cape; SA
2-4 students will be attached at Makerere University; Uganda
 All other students and relevant faculty will be selected later for lab
attachment in selected Universities in China (Hunan and Shanghai normal)
and elsewhere.

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2. Recruiting Research Chairs
 Anna Grobler: Biomedical Science
 Dr. F. Kavishe: Food and Nutrition Security
 Dr. Z.O. Yona: Information and Communication
Technology
 Dr. V. Konde: Science Technology Engineering and Maths
 Prof. T. Simalenga: Sustainable Agriculture
 Prof. M. Borner: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
 Prof. J. Idassi: Outreach

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b) On going partnership negotiations (Key partners)
 Rwanda University: joint curriculum development and teaching
 Hunan University of Technology; Staff /faculty exchange programs/joint pro, teaching and gramme
 Makerere University: Exchange program and lab attachments
 Purdue University: Staff /faculty exchange programs/joint programme
 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research SOUTH AFRICA; lab attachment
 University of Western Cape (UWC) SOUTH AFRICA; Exchange program and lab attachments
 Tanzania Livestock Research Institute (TALIRI). Field attachment
 State University of New York - Binghamton USA . Exchange program and lab attachments
 AWARD; Advocacy
 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&TSU) –USA
 University of Fort Hare (UFH); Exchange program and lab attachments
 Northwest University South Africa; Exchange program and lab attachments
 University of Hohenheim – Germany; : Exchange program and lab attachments
 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa – UNECA; Funding and Strategies
 Hamburg University of Applied Sciences – Germany; Exchange program and lab attachments
 Kenya Medical Research’ Institute; lab attachments
 RUFORUM; Advocacy and Back stopping strategies
 Mwalimu Julius Nyerere University of Science and Technology
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2. Way forward
 Organizing an extensive stakeholders meeting
next month.
 Signing MoU with all the relevant partners
 Visiting all the relevant key patrners in the region

58. Break out group discussion
How do you optimize
these components to
achieve excellence?

59. DLR #2.2: Newly enrolled students
• Total of 72 applications for PhD:
- 10 from the region (2 females)
- 62 from Tanzania (19 females)
12 have been enrolled
5 females and 7 males
4 from the region and 8 from Tanzania
• Total of 123 applications for MSc:
- 21 from the region (8 females)
- 102 from Tanzania (33 females)
17 have been enrolled
7 females and 10 males
4 from the region and 13 from Tanzania
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60. Short courses
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 Plant Metabolism for Improved Nutrition and Health:
20 students
 Females: 8
 Males :12
 Regional females:6
 Ecological Modeling:
14 students
 Females: 8
 Males :6
 Regional females:5

61. DLR#2.4: Collaboration and
partnerships for applied
research and training
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62. DLR#2.5: Peer-reviewed journal papers
or peer-reviewed conference papers
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 Over 50 papers have been published in
partnership with local, regional and international
partners

63. a) MoUs signed
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MoUs with Public Academic Partners
 Hunan University –Teaching and research

64. Budget: US$ 6,000,000 for 5 years
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Indicator of results Baseline 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
# PhD students enrolled
[% of which are regional, females]
15 25 30 35 45 50
# MSc students enrolled
[% of which are regional, females]
19 39 44 50 55 60
# new short term course
participants [% of which are
regional, females]
10 30 60 70 80 90
# internationally accredited
education programs
0 2 2 2 1
# MOUs on collaborations (including
the industry) and partnerships for
applied research and training by
CREATES - FNS
8 4 6 10 15 20

65. Publications rate in Africa
65 Scientific publications by country (Adams, King, & Hook, 2010)

66. 0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
GDP per capita (constant 2010 US$)
Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanzania
Zambia
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

67. Africa in the global knowledge
production: USPTO Patents granted
0
40
80
120
160
200
240
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
SOUTH AFRICA MALAYSIA ETHIOPIA
GHANA UGANDA

68. Africa in the global knowledge
production: Skills productions
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
1999 2002 2005 2008 2011
World
Africa
Asia
South
America
Gross enrolment in tertiary growing but remains
By 2050, 40% ofAfrica’s workforce will have a secondary
school education.