CRG Africa in the Indian Ocean

The CRG Africa in the Indian Ocean aims to: 

• Facilitate the exchange of information on on-going projects, events and activities among scholars working on Africa in the Indian Ocean in Europe, Africa and Asia
• Enhance the visibility of Africa as part of the Indian Ocean world within the African Studies landscape and beyond, and thereby help to expand and develop AEGIS as an academic network
• Promote collaboration between scholars and teams of scholars working on Africa in the Indian Ocean within AEGIS and network institutions outside Europe
• Develop new knowledge and interdisciplinarity in studies of Africa in the Indian Ocean, and to debate theoretical and methodological insights across disciplinary and area or regional studies boundaries
• Promote and disseminate the outcomes from research on Africa in the Indian Ocean to a wider public and groups of research users in Europe and beyond

The activities of the CRG Africa in the Indian Ocean are:

• Support and facilitate the organisation of conferences, conference panels or workshops (including AEGIS thematic conferences) by its participants/members
• Support and facilitate members'/participants' joint applications for research funding at a national, European or global level
• Support and facilitate the dissemination of knowledge on Africa in the Indian Ocean to a wider audience through popular print media, documentaries, radio and TV broadcasts, exhibitions and similar
• Support and facilitate the organisation of summer schools and researcher training courses for PhD students
• Support and facilitate the production of new textbooks for academic teaching on Africa in the Indian Ocean
• Develop a comprehensive network of scholars and groups of scholars working on Africa in the Indian Ocean, as well as a database covering  their research interests and ongoing projects
• Provide a basis for inputs from scholars or groups of scholars working on Africa in the Indian Ocean for think tanks or consultancy assignments