First edition of the AEYA (Africa-Europe Youth Academy)

Last week, Simone Orsenigo and Giacomo Baldesi participated in the first edition of the AEYA (Africa-Europe Youth Academy) course, an initiative promoted by the University of Pavia and funded by AICS (Italian Agency for Development Cooperation), hosted at Sokoine University in Morogoro, Tanzania. A parallel training program, held at Tangaza University in Nairobi by Graziano Rossi and Andrea Giacomelli, is still ongoing. The event represented an important opportunity for training and scientific exchange for 30 young people from across Tanzania in the fields of nutrition, environmental protection, and sustainable development. Beyond the academic activities, the mission also provided an extraordinary opportunity to closely explore some of the region’s richest and most vulnerable biodiversity areas, including the Kimboza Forest Reserve, known for its high number of endemic plant species, and the Uluguru Mountains, one of the mountain ranges that form the Eastern Arc, considered a global biodiversity hotspot.