First School on Atomistic Simulation of Biomolecules and Material Science in Tanzania from 3rd to 23rd September, 2018 The Africa Centre for Research, Agricultural advancement, Teaching Excellence and Sustainability (CREATES) in partnership with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), St John’s University of Tanzania and the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) will host […]

CREATES support students understating MSc and PhD degree in Life Science with specialization on: Sustainable Agriculture; Food and Nutritional Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management; Clinical Human Nutrition and Dietetics; and Global Health and Biomedical Sciences. Bio – engineering and Industrial Pharmacy (This program will be offered in partnership with Purdue University of the United States […]

Methodology CREATES serves as a regional excellence hub to achieve and promote specific Sustainable Development Goals under the following aspects Research based training and support of excellent professionals and academia; E-learning platform to promote graduate teaching programmes, research activities, and dissemination of information; State-of-art core laboratory to support Life Science and related research fields; Technological […]

The Centre provides innovative research, training, and outreach programmes in the region, taking advantage of the strong existing international and regional collaboration activities in the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST).

Specific objectives: Specifically the project seeks to strengthen the NM-AIST to become a magnet environment that provides innovative opportunities and state-of the-art learning environments for graduate students (PhD and MSc) as well as for faculty and other relevant stakeholders in the area of Food and Nutrition Security. This will enable NM-AIST produce high quality evidence-based […]

The overall objective of the CREATES is to strengthen the capacity of NM-AIST to serve as an African Centre of Excellence for provision of post graduate training (Master’s and PhD), applied research and outreach programs for Food and Nutrition Security in the Eastern and Southern Africa region.