Contact person: Jeanette da Silva, Norad

Type of event: Digital event ONLY

While development collaboration programmes such as NORHED are designed to stimulate long-lasting mutual North-South academic collaboration, we see a key challenge in ensuring fair and equitable partnerships, and moreover, that the collaboration supported allows for mutual and reciprocal learning and exchange of knowledge across the North-South divide. 

Key questions to be considered in this panel discussion include: What are the key indicators for a fair and equitable partnership? What are the risks involved of unequitable partnerships? What is at stake when partnerships are unequal? What management regimes/administrative modalities promote vs. constrain equitable partnerships? What aspects of “mainstream partnership practices” need to change in order to make these more equitable? And also - how has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted on the possibilities for equitable partnership?

Panelists will include academia from both the Global South and North, and possibly other institutions with experience with capacity development within international higher education and research collaboration.

Moderator: Nikolai Hegertun, Senior Adviser, Norad  

Researchers from the Global South ad North share their experience and perspectives:
- Professor Munzoul Abdalla M. Assal, University of Khartoum, Sudan
- Dr. Julianne Sansa-Otim, Senior Lecturer, Makerere University, Uganda
- Professor Anne Hellum, University of Oslo
- Professor Roy Krøvel, OsloMet

Panel conversation:
- Bjørn-Tore Kjellemo, Head of Department, The Research Council of Norway
- Jan Olav Baarøy, Director General, Norec
- Solbjørg Sjøveian, Assistant Director / Jeanette da Silva, Senior Adviser, Norad (tbc)

This event is relevant for SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals