The CEA-FIRST is a bicontinental effort put together to operationalise the International Research Consortium (IRC) as a long-term platform on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) in line with the FNSSA Roadmap of the AU-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD). This IRC is a member-based, multi-actor platform and will work towards increasing synergies and coherence while reducing fragmentation and duplication of research efforts.

The Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy Practice for Sustainable Food Systems (StEPPFoS) project is an initiative designed to align PANAP’s efforts with those of the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) sector. By doing so, it aims to bridge the gap between policy and practice in a way that addresses Africa’s unique agricultural and nutritional challenges.

The RUFORUM Secretariat, six member universities, the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), and three other European universities received funding from the European Union funded Erasmus+ programme to implement a project “African BlendEd Course: novel pedagogies boosting employability and socio-economic prosperity (ABC)”

The project will cross-cut several general and regional priorities. Sustainable growth and jobs, especially enhancing employment opportunities by narrowing the competence miss-match between what is taught at HEIs and what is required in the world of work and enhancing entrepreneurial education, are in the core of the project.

The "Advancing Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains through Strengthening Transdisciplinary Skills and Cooperation in East African Doctoral Education" (ADVALUE) project is a collaborative initiative launched in January 2024, running until December 2026. Funded by the EU Erasmus+ program, the project aims to enhance doctoral education in agricultural sciences within East Africa, particularly in Kenya and Uganda.

Commercialisation of Academic Research Initiative (CARI) is funded by Government of Uganda and implemented in partnership with Busitema University, Islamic University in Uganda, Makerere University, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, and Nkumba University.  The overall objective of CARI is to strengthen the capacity of Ugandan universities to create a critical mass of fourth-industrial revolution-based enterprises from student and faculty research to create jobs and wealth.