Event Details

Contributors from across the RECIRCULATE/ACTUATE Global Challenges Research Fund Projects Partnership present African perspectives on the potential for eco-innovation to deliver sustainable development.

Since 2017, a consortium of universities, research institutes, business and communities have been working together through the RECIRCULATE and ACTUATE projects to co-design and co-develop eco-innovative solutions contributing to a safe circular water economy in sub-Saharan Africa.

When it comes to issues such as water use in West Africa, it’s especially important to talk to local people who have first-hand experience of water problems and ask them to get involved in framing the questions the researchers need to answer. Funded through the Global Challenges Research Fund, the projects span health and sanitation, valorisation of waste and sustainable energy generation, and food production and soil security with multidisciplinary research teams in the UK, Ghana and Nigeria collaborating to address relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals.

RECIRCULATE/ACTUATE researchers will outline how they have worked with research users including members of low income communities, farmers, businesses and entrepreneurs to develop eco-innovative solutions to a range of water-related challenges. These innovations will enable communities to be more resilient to the effects of future climate change.

Speakers:

• Dr Akan Odon, Facilitator. Africa Strategy Adviser, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
• Prof. Kirk Semple, RECIRCULATE Director, Lancaster University
• Dr Francis Boateng Agyenim, Director Institute of Industrial Research, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Ghana)
• Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, Vice Chancellor, Igbinedion University (Nigeria), Professor, University of Benin (Nigeria)
• Dr Cynthia Forson, Deputy Provost, Lancaster University Ghana (Ghana)
• Patricia Oteng-Darko, CSIR, Kumasi (Ghana)

Please note that this event will be recorded.

This event is part of the COP26@ Lancaster University Festival, which aims to spark debate and showcase our leading specialists and research relating to climate change in the run-up to the United Nation’s COP26 in Glasgow. The week-long COP26@ Lancaster University Festival takes place from Wednesday 20^th October to Wednesday 27th October 2021.