ASCL是一个跨学院的研究所,其目标是在瞬息万变的世界中更好地了解非洲。ASCL的关键是它的图书馆,该图书馆拥有欧洲最大,最好的非洲馆藏之一,拥有来自世界各地的研究人员来到莱顿观看的独特书籍。
合作研究小组 ASCL研究的核心是其七个协作研究小组(CRG),它们致力于上述四个主题中的一个或多个。
关于“世界中的非洲:重新思考非洲的全球联系”,CRG的研究人员研究了非洲国家与越来越多的国际参与者的联系,例如金砖四国(巴西,俄罗斯,印度和中国)和海湾国家。他们还研究了几个世纪以来这些关系的变化。
关于“语言合作与争论:非洲社会现实中的对话与争议”,CRG的研究人员希望了解书面和口头语言如何用于实现非洲国家的社会变革。有时人们组织运动来倡导某个目标。
在非洲经济正在增长方面,非洲大陆越来越被视为一个潜在的市场。关于“治理、创业和包容性发展”,CRG研究了这对治理、创业和包容性发展意味着什么。
移动健康来自“健康和福祉的开拓未来:参与者、技术和社会工程”,CRG的研究人员专注于医疗保健中的新技术,例如移动健康(移动健康)和电子健康(电子健康)。以乍得的达瓦移动医疗项目为例。在这里,偏远村庄的医生使用短信来发现、治疗和预防由蠕虫引起的疾病bilharzia。
ASCL is an inter-faculty institute whose goal is to better understand Africa in a rapidly changing world. The key to ASCL is its library, which has one of the largest and best African collections in Europe, with unique books that researchers from all over the world come to Leiden to see.
At the heart of ASCL's research are its seven Collaborative Research Groups (CRGs), which work on one or more of the four themes mentioned above.
On "Africa in the World: Rethinking Africa's Global Connections," CRG's researchers looked at African countries' connections with a growing number of international players, such as the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the Gulf states. They also studied how these relationships have changed over the centuries.
On "Language Cooperation and Debate: Dialogue and Controversy in African Social Realities," CRG researchers wanted to understand how written and spoken language can be used to bring about social change in African countries. Sometimes people organize campaigns to advocate for a certain goal.
The African continent is increasingly seen as a potential market in terms of its growing economy. On "Governance, Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Development," CRG examines what this means for governance, entrepreneurship and inclusive development.
From "Pioneering the Future of Health and Well-being: Participants, Technology, and Social Engineering," CRG's researchers focus on new technologies in healthcare, such as mobile health (mHealth) and eHealth (eHealth). Take the Dawa mobile health project in Chad, for example. Here, doctors in remote villages use text messages to detect, treat and prevent diseases caused by worms bilharzia.