An initiative for just energy transition receives seed funding. Dr. Sadik-Zada, PI of AFFINITY-FORSIDES, within which a total of 12 of the 24 WUN network partners are participating. The researchers' goal is to establish an innovative dialogue forum for just energy transition in Africa. 

At its core, AFFINITY-FORSIDES is transdisciplinary: it aims to connect research with practice and bring together perspectives across disciplines and sectors to build a novel multi-stakeholder dialogue forum.

The project is going to unite scholars from all continets for a just energy transition in Africa. Different perspectives are essential to making our vision of FORSIDES real.

Research team (partner universities): University of Alberta University of Auckland; University of Cape Town; University of Ghana; University of Leeds; Mahidol University; Makerere University; National Cheng Kung University; University of Pretoria; University of Rochester; Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft - Ruhr-Universität Bochum University of Tsukuba

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