The African Climate and Environment Centre – Future African Savannas (AFAS) is inviting applications for 18 fully funded Master’s fellowships.

Successful candidates will study at the University of Nairobi or Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny and undertake interdisciplinary training and stakeholder-oriented research focused on climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in African savannas through Nature-based Solutions (NbS).

Thematic areas: Water, Agriculture, Energy, One Health and Biodiversity.

The Faculty of Science and Technology has partnered with German technology leader ZEISS to officially launch the broader Youth Innovation Challenge 2026.

PhD candidates, Fatuma Sheramo Fora and Henry Momanyi from the Department of Biology, are at the forefront of an urgent international research collaboration, as profiled in the German newspaper Die Rheinpfalz. While participating in the Erasmus Mundus Exchange Program at Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), their vital work addresses a severe food safety crisis in Kenya.