This project intends to promote partnerships in Research Infrastructures between Africa and Europe. The strategy for the African and European Union cooperation in the Science, Information Society and Space initiative has been established since the 2007 Lisbon Summit. The project “Promoting African European Research Infrastructure Partnership” (PAERIP) addresses  specifically the lack of research infrastructure partnerships, aiming to:

• improve the cooperation between African and European researchers, utilising the existing research infrastructures and the granted African access in European facilities and vice versa

• identify opportunities for partnership between Africa and Europe in developing new research infrastructures, especially in the context of the ESFRI Roadmap and other global programmes, taking advantage of unique African comparative assets

• give prominence to Research Infrastructures as instruments of cooperation and means of sensitising policy-makers to the import socio-economic impact of such cooperation

• support African and European organisations wishing to develop research infrastructure cooperation, notably through the dissemination of information, advisory services etc.