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About our partners

During the course of their work ESSA has worked with a number of partners in and outside of sub-Saharan Africa who all share the same desire to create impact. By working together we will achieve our goals more successfully and quicker.

Four teachers from sub-Saharan Africa during a learning workshop

Partners

The Schaufler Foundation

was founded in 2005 by Senator h. c. Peter Schaufler (deceased), former CEO and owner of BITZER, with the aim to continue his life’s work of combining entrepreneurship with science, research, education and the arts.

In terms of science and research, the focus is on environment protection. In the field of education, the foundation supports a variety of universities in Germany and now, by working with ESSA, will expand its activities into Africa. The Schaufler Foundation is a key funder of ESSA's Pilot Scholarship Impact Hub project.

Inter University Council for East Africa (IUCEA)

The Inter University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) was established in 1980, originally called the Inter University Committee (IUC). IUCEA is hosted in Kampala, Uganda with its main objectives being to:

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), established by ten Vice Chancellors in 2004, is a consortium of 121 African universities operating within 38 countries spanning the African continent.

RUFORUM is coordinated by a Secretariat hosted by Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM)

The Global Education Monitoring Report (the GEM Report, formerly known as the Education for All Global Monitoring Report) is an editorially independent, authoritative and evidence-based annual report published by UNESCO.

Interns

The African scholarships hub couldn’t have been created without the hard work of our interns.

Lisa Tichagwa

Lisa is Zimbabwean and is currently a student at Jacobs University, Bremen pursuing a BSc in Chemistry.

Ishmael Ofori Aboagye

Ishmael is Ghanaian and is currently a student at Ashesi University, Ghana pursuing a BSc in Business Administration.

Sepiso Dean Mwamelo

Sepiso is Tanzanian and is currently studying a Masters’ at Edinburgh University, she graduated in 2019 from the African Leadership University, Mauritius with a BA (Hons) in Business Management.