Our Research
Future Africa is a neutral platform that convenes and supports collaboration with a focus on:
Transformative research approaches – We advocate research that contributes concrete solutions to complex, real-world problems and that informs and supports processes of profound social change towards global sustainability.
We define transformative research as collaborative research that is:
Integrative: we enable meaningful interdisciplinarity, drawing on knowledge, methods, and approaches across scientific fields and disciplines, and across the fundamental to applied research divide
Engaged: we advance transdisciplinarity, working with stakeholders from policy, the private sector, civil society, and the media as partners in the co-design and co-production of solutions-oriented knowledge
Holistic: we look at problems from a systems perspective, making sense of their complexity by focusing on the wider, interactive systems of which they are a part
Digitally enabled: we harness cutting-edge tools of the digital revolution to fuel scientific discovery and to reach the widest possible number of stakeholders.
Futures literate: we encourage the development and use of futures literacy in anticipating and shaping alternative future narratives and strategies.
