This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume is concerned with the
evolution and achievements of cooperation in research and innovation between Africa and Europe
and points to the need for more diversified funding and finance mechanisms and for novel
models of collaboration to attract new actors and innovative ideas. It reflects on the
political economic diplomatic and scientific rationale for cooperation while also examining
practical developments illustrated with examples in the fields of food security health and
climate change. The need to mobilise scientific knowledge and to ensure equality and fairness
in the cooperation are recurrent themes. Africa-Europe Cooperation in Research and Innovation
is essential reading for policy makers and researchers in international relations and science
diplomacy.
