Africa-Europe higher education cooperation for development: meeting regional and global challenges

The white paper resulting from the project "Access to Success: Fostering Trust and Exchange between Europe and Africa" comes at a particularly critical moment in various regards: first, it arrives at a time when universities are increasingly prioritising global partnership as a strategic response to the demands that societies and economies are placing on them; secondly, it examines the evolving and increasingly important overlap between the ‘internationalisation’ agenda of universities, and their role as actors in development cooperation; thirdly, it comes at a time of reflection on the next steps with the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership, a relatively new political framework with great potential.