AFRICA, Angola, UAN Launches Research Centre for Sub-Saharan African Scientists

Luanda — Angola's Agostinho Neto University, Newcastle (UK) and NGO Planet Earth Institute (PEI) will jointly launch a Sustainability Research Centre in Luanda.

The decision comes in a press release from the British embassy in Angola, which stress that the new Centre of Excellence in Science for Sustainability in Africa (CESSAF) will open to the students researchers in September 2013.

The centre is intended to train over 100 students with doctor's degree in the coming 10 years in the key fields such as natural resources, environmental pollution, sustainable agriculture, urban planning and geosciences.

The first students will start their Doctorate training programme in Newcastle, at the school of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.

In the next four years Angola will share the time with the United Kingdom.

According to Maurício Fernandes, the PEI chairperson, quoted by document, "there are many opportunities in Angola, including for UK industry."