Africa-Press – Cape verde. Ari Jacobovits will be in Cape Verde precisely to identify collaboration opportunities with Cape Verdean partners, with a view to preparing an MIT – Cape Verde Program, which will include internships, teaching and research.
The President of the Republic, José Maria Neves, receives this Monday, 3, the coordinator of the MIT-Africa program, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), renowned North American higher education institution for excellence and innovation in the field of technology , research, engineering and space sciences.
According to a press release from the Presidency of the Republic, the visit of Ari Jacobovits to Cape Verde follows the meeting that José Maria Neves held, in Massachussets, with the directors, senior leaders and students of MIT, during his visit to that institute as a speaker at an international conference, organized last April, within the framework of the first Presidency in the Diaspora.
Accompanied by three students
The meeting at the Platõ Palace, on Monday, 3rd, is scheduled for 10 am.
During the hearing, the MIT-ÁFRICA coordinator will be accompanied by three students who will accompany him on this visit to Cape Verde.
It should be noted that the MIT-Africa program, which is part of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MITSI), based at the Institute’s Center for International Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, benefits, for the first time, an African country of Portuguese language, after an intense work of interaction carried out in close cooperation with our diaspora.
Identify collaboration with Cape Verdean partners
Therefore, Ari Jacobovits will be in Cape Verde precisely to identify opportunities for collaboration with Cape Verdean partners, with a view to preparing an MIT-Cape Verde Program, which will include internships, teaching and research.
The objective is to strengthen partnerships with startups and local entrepreneurs, in order to develop innovative solutions to global challenges.
Cape Verde is one of eight countries in Africa with which MIT maintains educational and research exchange programs and the first Portuguese-speaking country in Africa where the university seeks to establish a presence.
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