Strategic partnerships for growth: Building bridges for the future
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- Start Date : 1 December, 2025
- Start Time : 10:30
- End Date : 5 December, 2025
- End Time : 16:30
- Address :
| # | Topic | Speaker | Time | Hall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plenary session 1: Africa-China High Level Dialogue on Higher Agricultural Education, Science and Technology | 08:00 - 10:30 | GICC Main Hall | |
| 2 | Health Break | 10:30 - 11:00 | ||
| 3 | Official opening of the 21st RUFORUM AGM by Advocate Duma Gideon Boko, President of Botswana | 11:00 - 13:00 | GICC Main Hall | |
| 4 | Lunch Break | 13:00 - 14:00 | ||
| 5 | Official viewing of posters and exhibitions | 14:00 - 15:00 | GICC | |
| 6 | Transformative Education and Ecosystem engagement | 14:00 - 17:00 | GICC Main Hall | |
| 7 | Africa-Europe High Level Dialogue on Higher Agricultural Education, Science and Technology | 15:00 - 17:00 | GICC: Okavango |
| # | Topic | Speaker | Time | Hall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Official launch of the RUFORUM Regional Nodes | 08:30 - 10:30 | GICC Main Hall | |
| 2 | Strategic high level policy meeting for TAGDev | 08:00 - 10:30 | GICC : Okavango | |
| 3 | Health Break | 10:30 - 11:00 | ||
| 4 | Africa-North America High Level Dialogue on Higher Agricultural Education, Science and Technology | 11:00 - 13:30 | GICC: Okavango | |
| 5 | Green Economy and Climate Finance Side Event | 11:00 - 13:30 | GICC: Moremi 2 | |
| 6 | Lunch Break | 13:30 - 14:30 | ||
| 7 | Centers of leadership (bilateral/multi-lateral meetings - max 10 pple) for the following centers -blue economy, crop improvement, Climate Science, policy, futures and economy, Digital economy | 14:30 - 17:00 | GICC | |
| 8 | RMRN Side Event (RUFORUM/FARA) | 14:30 - 17:00 | GICC: Moremi 1 | |
| 9 | RMRN side event (ICIPE) | 14:00 - 17:00 | GICC: Moremi 3 | |
| 10 | Vice Chancellors’ Forum (Work Transitions) | 14:00 - 17:00 | GICC: Okavango |
| # | Topic | Speaker | Time | Hall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TAGDev Partnership Council meeting | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Okavango | |
| 2 | Data science (geoinformatics, Bioinformatics, Bioversity, Econometrics /modelling) | 08:00 - 13:30 | GICC: Moremi 2 | |
| 3 | Artificial intelligence in agriculture and related fields (Robotics, Nanotechnology and design engineering) | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Okavango | |
| 4 | Biosystems engineering | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Moremi 1 | |
| 5 | Productivity enhancement (food, feeds) | 08:00 - 13:00 | GICC: Serondela A1 | |
| 6 | Climate Change | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Serondela A2 | |
| 7 | Economic growth | 08:00 - 13:30 | GICC: Serondela A3 | |
| 8 | Markets, policies, wealth and jobs | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Serondela B1 | |
| 9 | Scaling out of science and innovations (what we have learnt-TAGDve and others) | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Serondela B2 | |
| 10 | Building capacity for Innovation (Engineering degree PhD programme) | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Serondela B3 | |
| 11 | Digitally enabled knowledge management | 08:30 - 13:30 | GICC: Serondela B4 | |
| 12 | Lunch Break | 13:30 - 14:30 | GICC: Serondela A1 | |
| 13 | Transformative education evidence and practice | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela A1 | |
| 14 | Agripreneurship Alliance Side Event | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela A2 | |
| 15 | Partners Round Table Dialogue | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Okavango | |
| 16 | AICCRA side event | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela A3 | |
| 17 | Practice Side event | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela A4 | |
| 18 | Communication for impact side event | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela B1 | |
| 19 | Special Meeting of Principals and Deans from SADC | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela B2 | |
| 20 | Proposed side event 3 (TBC) | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela B3 | |
| 21 | Proposed side event 4 (TBC) | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC: Serondela B4 |
| # | Topic | Speaker | Time | Hall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University-TVET engagement and reporting back (general discussions and resolutions) | 08:30 - 10:30 | GICC Main Hall | |
| 2 | Board Meeting | 08:30 - 10:30 | GICC: Okavango | |
| 3 | TAGDev Partnership Council meeting | 08:30 - 10:30 | GICC: Moremi 1 | |
| 4 | Tree planting at chosen schools in and around Gaborone | 08:30 - 10:30 | Gaborone | |
| 5 | Health Break | 10:30 - 11:00 | ||
| 6 | RUFORUM AGM Business Meeting | 11:00 - 13:30 | GICC Main Hall | |
| 7 | TAGDev Partnership Council meeting | 11:00 - 13:30 | GICC: Moremi 1 | |
| 8 | Lunch Break | 13:30 - 14:30 | ||
| 9 | AGM Closing Ceremony | 14:30 - 16:30 | GICC Main Hall | |
| 10 | Gala Dinner | 19:00 - 22:00 | TBC |
| # | Topic | Speaker | Time | Hall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open day for Tourism | 08:30 - 17:00 | Field | |
| 2 | LOC-ROC-Zambia Neeting | 11:00 - 13:30 | TBC |