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Scientific cooperation: Cameroon aligns with the progress made by the State of Israel

Madam Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation, Dr. Madeleine Tchuinté received in audience on Monday, June 25, 2018 at 11 a.m., the Ambassador of Israel to Cameroon, His Excellency Ran Gidor. This visit to MINRESI by the Israeli diplomat comes a few weeks after the participation at the invitation of the Israeli Government, the Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation from June 25 to 2, 2018, in Jerusalem, Israel, in the first International Scientific Conference at ministerial level on the theme “Thinking out of the Box, celebrating seventy years of Israeli scientific innovation in the service of Humanity”. This meeting brought together ministers in charge of Science and Technology from around thirty countries, Scientific Advisors, certain Heads of Government, Israeli researchers and creators, as well as members of the international scientific community and Nobel Prize winners. .

After welcoming her host, Dr Madeleine Tchuinté praised the quality of Israeli expertise in agricultural research and the diversity of innovations exhibited during the International Scientific Conference in which she took part and which suggests explore avenues of cooperation between the research organizations of the two countries, particularly in the field of technology transfer in the management of water and fertilizers for the needs of agriculture in the arid zones of Cameroon.

Continuing her remarks, the head of MINRESI also mentioned several scientific fields that could be useful to Cameroon. These include, among other things, the design and production of small agricultural mechanical tools which would reduce the arduousness of the work and the cost of labor; animal production, in particular, aquaculture and dairy production; the genetic improvement of dairy cows and plants (cereals, fruit trees, vegetable crops).

It should also be noted the training of scientific personnel, particularly in genetics and food technology (researchers and technicians). Finally, the Minister of Research underlined the importance of the recommendations resulting from the lessons learned after this international conference in Israel. Overall, it emerges that the security challenges facing our country should not slow down all current public socio-economic development initiatives. Likewise, scientific cooperation with Israel should be strengthened, by promoting the multidisciplinary approach to provide technical solutions to Cameroon’s development problems. In this perspective, Dr Madeleine Tchuinté hoped that the institutes under the supervision of MINRESI would be widely involved in terms of training grant facilities for researchers in Israel. His Excellency Ran Gidor was very favorable to the densification of scientific cooperation with MINRESI not only through already existing opportunities, but also and above all to consider new fields of innovation such as the creation of start-ups.

Back to science 2018

Mutualizing the scientific and infrastructural capacities of the National Research and Innovation System in the face of the challenge of Cameroon’s emergence”. This is the theme chosen for this event to celebrate and showcase the National Research and Innovation System, whose activities were solemnly launched on August 8, 2018 at 10 a.m. in the conference room of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation.

La rentrée scientifique is one of Dr. madeleine Tchuinté’s flagship innovations, which aims to promote the animation, coordination and control of the National Research and Innovation System, for a greater contribution to Cameroon’s emergence process by 2035.

This year’s event will focus on continuing the reforms undertaken by MINRESI over the last few years, with a view to meeting the government’s expectations. The aim is to turn science, technology and innovation into an economic instrument. Henceforth, researchers should no longer focus on knowledge, but rather develop certain competencies and interpersonal skills, the ability to meet the challenges of social transformation, and the ability to work in teams and networks.

On a completely different level, the contribution of scientific and technical innovations should make it possible to optimize human, material and infrastructural resources to improve the production, processing, distribution and consumption of products resulting from research.

Presiding over the ceremony in place of the Minister, who was unable to attend, MINRESI Inspector No. 1 Helen Ntonifor invited all commission members to work together as a team, in order to make the ceremony more successful than in the past.

The new academic year for research and innovation will feature a procession of the various members of the research corps, an inaugural lecture, a keynote speech by the Minister of Scientific Research and Innovation, a solemn presentation of researchers promoted to higher rank, and the celebration of an eminent researcher whose research work has made or is making a decisive contribution to national development.

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