CERA is a premier research fellowship program dedicated to enhancing creativity and ingenuity through collaborations and exchange with scientists from resource limited laboratories in Africa. Our mission is to foster global partnerships and inspire innovation across disciplines. By working with talented graduate students, PhDs, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty from African universities and research institutions, CERA promotes global engagement opportunities in cutting edge research spanning the arc of mathematics and machine learning to manufacturing and entrepreneurship.

The power of broadened thought processes is critical in maintaining efficient research productivity, creating lasting solutions, and spurring technologies that are long lasting while being broadly applicable. CERA is designed to support and develop a robust workforce with a broad understanding, amicable to tackling grand challenges. Our fellowship offers comprehensive training, joint research, mentorship, and resource sharing to help scholars advance their research careers and contribute to solving critical challenges. Under our CERA-E (E for entrepreneurship) we collaborate to translate research from our labs into emerging markets expanding the broader impact of America’s scientific output.

This is a bijective partnership. American scientists get a chance to work in a resource limited laboratory in Africa to learn how to adapt to scientific thought sans technology. African scientists get to visit American laboratories where they are exposed to advanced tools and in the process build lasting collaborations with their peers in the U.S.

We invite you to explore our program and join our community of scholars and partners to make a global impact.