Business partners:
The partnership brings together Aarhus University with four East African universities:
Project description:
ASAP-Bio is a long-term university partnership programme focused on strengthening education, research collaboration and human capacity in sustainable livestock systems. The project aims to train the next generation of scientists and professionals who will work on challenges related to food security, climate resilience and biodiversity in animal production systems.
The initiative combines Danish and African expertise in areas such as animal genetics, genomics, breeding, feed systems and data science.
Main project components
The project has two main pillars:
University partnership and academic collaboration (2026–2030)
This component focuses on strengthening institutional collaboration and academic capacity across the partner universities. Activities include:
Overall, the programme will support around 20 faculty exchange visits and train more than 30 academic and administrative staff in new technical and pedagogical skills.
Scholarship and student mobility programme (2027–2032)
The second pillar focuses on training young African scientists through several mobility schemes hosted at Aarhus University.
Across the lifetime of the project, the programme will support:
The programme places strong emphasis on gender equality, with a target of at least 50% female participation across all scholarship schemes.
Overall ambition
The long-term ambition of ASAP-Bio is to build durable African–Danish academic partnerships and to train a new generation of scientists who can contribute to more sustainable livestock systems while protecting biodiversity and supporting food security.
Through joint teaching, research collaboration, and student mobility, the programme aims to create lasting institutional partnerships that continue beyond the lifetime of the project.
