SUpportinG GEoSciences To develop Africa

Cooperation towards natural disaster risk mitigation

SUGGEST AFRICA is a project that had been awarded with a research grant (299.278,74 €) by FCT and the Aga Kahn Development Network for cooperation with African institutions towards natural disaster risk mitigation.

The project will upgrade the geodetic and meteorological observational infrastructures, and will provide a platform for the integration of data, products and skills. The emphasis will be on the impacts of sea-level rise on coastal regions, monitoring of severe storms, and earthquake risk assessment.

SUGGEST AFRICA benefits from the participation of UBI in the Collaboratory for Geosciences (C4G), a research infrastructure of FCT’s Strategic Roadmap. Besides, it is a partnership with the geodetic and cartographic institutes of Mozambique (CENACARTA), Angola (IGCA) and Nigeria (OSGoF), the meteorological institutes of Angola (INAMET) and Mozambique (INAM), the geological survey of Mozambique (INAMI) and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM).