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1 ID Project Title Acronym Name Organisation Country IC-018 IIC-094 IC-070 IC-093 Innovative Conservation Agriculture Approaches: Food Security and Climate Action Through Soil and Water Conservation Addressing societal challenges of biotechnology in Africa. Towards balanced innovation Antibiotics and anti-quorum sensing compounds from African fungal endophytes inhabiting medicinal plants and cultures of macromycetes Local climate change in 3 cities(cairo, Nairobi, Istanbul) with different population, urban structure, land use classification and climate characteristics and compare different adaptation strategies INCAA Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung Müncheberg Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) Universidade de Évora - Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (UE/ICAAM) BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences - Centre for Development Research (CDR) Université Polytechnique de Bobo Dioulasso - Institut du Développement Rural (UPB - IDR) SOCBIOAfri Université Libre de Bruxelles University of Ouagadougou University of Groningen Ghent University National Biosafety Authority North West University (NWU) ASAFEM Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH Egerton University Technical University of Berlin University of KwaZulu Natal Catholic University of Louvain LOCLIM3 Cairo University, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning Egypt Institute of Meteorology, FU Berlin Istanbul Technical University, Department of Meteorology Jomo tta University Agriculture and Technology

2 IC-062 IC-031 IC-003 IC-025 Increasing innovation potential by European- African cooperation The African Melioidosis Network: improving health through an integrated microbiological, clinical and environmental research approach Vascular endothelial dysfunction: The putative interface of emerging cardiovascular risk factors affecting populations living with and without HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. Tailored fermentation for delivery of wholegrain and cereal fibre-rich products: promoting dietary fiber intake in Africa and Europe innxchange University Maastricht University Pretoria Strathmore University Hochschule Furtwangen AMENET Université d'ouagadougou National Laboratory for Agricultural Development Support (LANADA) Universitymedicine of Greifswald KöR, Institute of Medicine Bernhard-Nocht-Institute of Tropical Medicine Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research Ghana University of Antananarivo Madagascar Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam Medical University of Vienna Endo-Africa Centre for Environmental Sciences, University of Hasselt Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology Division of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch Institute of Physiology, Medical University of Graz Department of Biology, Alassane Ouattara University, Bouake, Côte d'ivoire FIBRE-PRO University of Helsinki Department of food and environmental sciences Finland University fo Helsinki Department of food and environmental sciences Finland University of Nairobi, Department of Food Technology and Nutrition Institut de Recherche en Sciences Appliquées et Technologies / Département Technologie Alimentaire

3 IC-080 IC-027 CONNEctingknowledge, scales and actors; An integrated framework for adaptive organic resource management targeting soil aggradation and agroecosystems resilience in SSA Contribution of cereal-based fermented foods to folate intake in European and African countries ConneSSA KU Leuven Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (KUL) Wageningen University, Farming Systems Ecology Group FIBL Universität Hohenheim, Inst. for Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics / Subtropics (UH) Centre International de Coopération Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD) Nangui Abrogoua University Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) University of Eldoret tta University University of Ouagadougou FolEA Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) - UMR 204 Nutripass Institut de Recherche en Sciences Appliquées et Technologies / Département Technologie Alimentaire University of Helsinki - Department of Food and Environmental Sciences Finland University of Pretoria - Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences Addis Ababa University - College of Natural Sciences - Center for Food Ethiopia Science and Nutrition

4 ERAfrica Funding Decision of project in New Ideas ID Title Acronym Name Organisation Country NI-021 Health hazards caused by bacteria in traditional African fermented dairy products: Food safety and epidemiology Safe dairy ETH Zurich Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'ivoire University of Nairobi Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute University of Rostock Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique NI-005 Measuring accessibility in policy evalution MAXess University of Pretoria NI-011 Development of grain drying facilities that use super absorbent polymers and adjusting the properties of SAPs to optimize drying of grain and control of aflatoxin contamination Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) University of Nairobi SAPDRY University of Nairobi ETH-Zurich University of Kassel University of Venda NI-036 NI-027 Stymieing infant mortality: effects of manipulating oxygen tension on lung development and lung vascular plasticity Detection methods for fruit flies of economic significance to fruit and vegetable production in Africa and Indian Ocean islands RDSControl Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Nairobi, Insitute of Anatomy, University of Bern Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Fruit fly Citrus Research International Royal Museum for Central Africa CIRAD National Center for Agronomic Research (CNRA)

5 ERAfrica Funding Decision of project Renewable Energies ID Title Acronym Name Organisation Country RE-037 ADVANCED HYDROGEN ENERGY SYSTEMS HENERGY Institute for Energy Technology University of the Western Cape Cairo University / Chemical Engineering Department / Faculty of Engineering HYSTORSYS AS Egypt CMR Prototech Middle East Technical University RE-027 Development of an advanced high-efficient low-cost power-generation with minimum carbon emission from hybrid-fuel supplies Ad-Pow-Gen International Research Institute Stavanger Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Cape Town Fatih University Ain Shames University Egypt

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