SHIFT-KF Kick off Workshop
The University of Nairobi, Faculty of Agriculture & Faculty of Business and Management Sciences as we officially launched “Strengthening Higher Institutional Agriculture and Food Training – Kenya-France” (SHIFT KF) Project at the Upper Kabete Campus. This is a new collaboration between #Kenya and #France in education, research and innovation. The Kick off Workshop was officially launched by His Excellence Arnaud Suquet, French Ambassador in Kenya.
We are grateful for the immense support of the French Embassy & the Engineering and Science Complex (most grateful to Marc Zolver and Lauric Cécillon for their support from the conception of this project) and our partners AgroParisTech (special accolades for Aliénor JEANNE and Marine GOUDAX) as French coordinating institutions, and our other French partners (CIRAD, IRD, L'Institut Agro, Lycée Agricole de Coconi, EPLEFPA FORMATERRA, EPLEFPA SAINT JOSEPH).
We are also deeply thankful for the support of the programme Partenariats Académiques Afrique-France (PeA), Agence Française de Développement and ANR & the French National Research Agency. Kudos to our Faculty Staff and Students for supporting this initiative.
Special thanks to the project PI’s Catherine Kunyanga (UoN), Samir EL OUAAMARI (APT) & Jackson Maalu (UoN) for spearheading this project. Much appreciation to Madam Anne-Gael Chapuis-Mirol, AFD Country Director; Prof. Margaret Hutchinson, DVC Research, Innovation and Enterprise; Laurent Buisson, Dean and Executive Director of AgroParisTech; and our chief guest His Excellence Arnaud Suquet, French Ambassador in Kenya and Somalia (France In Kenya) for officiating this opening ceremony.
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