The EuroAfriCa-ICT project, Connecting the European Union and sub-Saharan Africa for ICT partnerships, has officially started today for a period of 24 months. Funded by the Directorate General Information Society and Media (DG InfSo) of the European Commission (EC) in the framework of the Seventh Research Framework Program (FP7), it will complement the START project that has been developed under the name of the EuroAfrica-ICT initiative since September 2006. The main project objective is to identify, promote and support strategic S&T cooperation opportunities on ICT between European and African organizations, and to support policy dialogues between Europe and Africa in this field. The project also aims at strengthening and developing existing initiatives, programs and projects developed in the field of S&T cooperation between Europe and Africa in ICT, ensuring a wider promotion of cooperation opportunities in Europe, maintaining awareness raising on FP7 and the ICT theme in Africa, pursuing a specific focus on South Africa and initiating a specific action towards the Caribbean. The EuroAfriCa-ICT Consortium consists of Orionis (a division of Sigma Consultants, France) project coordinator; the Association of Commonwealth Universities - through its African unit (ACU), United Kingdom; the Academy of Sciences for the developing world (TWAS), Italy; the French speaking Universitary Agency - Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Belgium for the European side and the Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa; the Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA), Senegal; the Makerere University, Uganda; the Kigali Institute of Science & Technology (KIST), Rwanda for the African side as well as a Caribbean partner, the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS), Jamaica. Contact