Farouk holds a Master's degree in Political Science. He is currently devoting his time to volunteer with the Erasmus+ Community and Non-profit Organizations. He studied at the Department of Political Science at Djilali Bounaama University of Khemis-Miliana, Algeria. He studied during his mobility programme at the Faculty of Political Science, Sociology and Communication, at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. This experience raised his cultural awareness for he has been in touch with the huge diversity atmosphere. Farouk wants to improve Higher Education in Algeria through promoting, connecting and introducing the EU/AU academic mobility during his term as ASAF Co-Ambassador.

Languages: Arabic, English and French

Mobility programme, country: Erasmus+ short-term International Credit Mobility, Italy

Riscard Madal is currently the Technical Director of the Multimedia Resource Center at the University of Bangui, and Consultant-Trainer in digital transition and of the Moodle platform at the AUF with the University of Bangui. He is the recipient of the European Union Erasmus Mundus scholarship of the DREAM project coordinated by the University of Porto (Portugal) for a full Master's degree at the University of Lille in France from 2015 - 2017.

He believes his role as a Co-Ambassador involves sensitising and motivating young Africans, and in particular those from Central Africa, to join the ASAF community and to seize the opportunities that ASAF will offer in the coming years.

Languages: French, Sangô, Kabba-Sara, Talet

Mobility programme, country: Erasmus Mundus, France

Asmaa from Egypt, is an Executive Administrative Staff at International Relations Office, Cairo University, and a master's student at Helwan University, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, as well as a member of the "ASAF Social Media Taskforce Group" and Co-ambasaador of Egypt.

She has a long background working in international relations which helped her to convey positive word-of-mouth about her country Egypt, as a popular study and tourist destination among European and African partners and their students.

On the other hand, being a part of IRO allows her to spread the office vision among Cairo university students and consult them to apply in different mobility programs. Furthermore, her position enabled her to help incoming students and staff from different backgrounds to integrate in Egypt. The aim at IRO is to spread the Egyptian culture and encourage the students to integrate into different backgrounds and customs. Being part in different mobilty porgramms in the context of Erasmus gave her great opportunities and helped her discover new cultures, make new friends, convey a positive word-of-mouth about her country, spread the culture and history of egypt, and motivate new friends to visit Egypt. This new adventure helped her alot to rediscover herself, broaden her knowledge, and accepti differences.

That’s why Asmaa strongly encourages others to experience this once-in-lifetime opportunity which will definitely change one positvely. As an ASAF Co-Ambassador of Egypt, her aim is to actively promote ASAF among potential members and motivate the current ones so that together we can help ASAF to fulfil its mission and vision in Africa. Moreover, Asmaa would like to help raise awareness of specific AU and EU mobility scholarship programs and assist incoming and outgoing students and staff before and during their mobility.

Asmaa says: "I do believe that working together will enable us to add value to our community and achieve AFRICA we want. In the end, I am so energetically enthusiastic to participate in all ASAF activities and events and will be so happy to help and support ASAF members all the time, so feel free to contact me". 

Languages: Arabic, English, French

Mobility programme, country:
Erasmus plus Short term exchange mobility program "masters" (2020-2021) at Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid.

The International StaffMobility for Training under Erasmus+ programme “The 4th International Week, Warsaw School of Economics (2018).

The International StaffMobility for Training under Erasmus+ programme “The 8th International Week”, University of Granada (2017).

His core profession is training engineering. Also multidisciplinary, sixteen years ago, he was one of the first Erasmus Mundus Stettin mobility grant holders, for the University of Bordeaux in France (2013-2015), for the purposes of the Master « Teaching, Education and Training Professions ».

His employability improved recently, he has at heart, as Co-Ambassador for the Ivory Coast, to promote academic studies and internship mobilities between Africa and Europe and intra African mobility. And, he aspires to more exchange of good professional practices, among his peers former scholarship holders in the country, for an increased and differentiated productivity.

Languages: French, English

Mobility programme, country: Erasmus Mundus, France

Roshan is the Director of the Centre for Information Technology and Systems (CITS) at the University of Mauritius (UoM). He had intensive industry experience prior to joining UoM and has around 22 years of experience in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).  He has time and again applied his recognized leadership/management skills and technical knowledge to leverage the use of ICT in his organisation through the implementation of major innovative ICT projects, enabling the UoM to remain in phase with the development and evolution of the field of ICT. He has been instrumental for the successful deployment of major projects, ranging from networking to enterprise resource planning at the UoM.

Roshan has been a key player in the immediate migration to online learning at the UoM during the Covid-19 pandemic.

He is a Cisco Academy Instructor and a Qualified Instructor Trainer within the Cisco Networking Academy programme, and is actively involved in the delivery of CCNA, CCNP, IoT, Security, and Cyber Operations courses. He is also a Huawei ICT Academy instructor.

The Erasmus + exchange provided Roshan the opportunity to network with colleagues from the Middlesex University in the UK and other peers who attended the programme.

With growing the ASAF community in Mauritius as his main objective as Co-Ambassador, Roshan looks forward to a fruitful collaboration with the ASAF family.

Languages: English, French

Mobility programme, country: Erasmus+, UK

Comfort is a lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria. She benefited from the Africa Biomedical Engineering Mobility (ABEM) project under the Intra-Africa Mobility Scheme for her Master’s degree in Health Information Technology at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. The mobility gave her the privilege to be a part of the early set of Africans to be trained in the emerging field of Biomedical Engineering. The love for her country and her desire to promote EU mobility are her motivations behind becoming a Co-Ambassador. She strongly believes that Nigerian ASAF members have a lot to offer for the realization of ASAF's vision, and she gladly volunteers to drive this passion amongst ASAF's Nigerian community.

Languages: Yoruba, English

Mobility programme, country: Intra-Africa Mobility Scheme under African Biomedical Engineering Mobility Project, Uganda

Emuriat Julius Emmanuel is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at INES-Ruhengeri University in Rwanda. He benefited from an Intra-ACP-Mobility.

He thrives in high pressure situations, and his strong desire to provide quality education through effective knowledge sharing is important in supporting internationalization of higher education and academic mobility programmes in Africa.

Languages: Ateso, English, Swahili

Mobility programme, country:
African Union’s Nyerere Scholarship and Academic Mobility Programme, Ethiopia

Prince Nene is from Durban South Africa and working for Unilever South Africa as a

Process Engineer. I am a self driven individual with a passion to see our African continent grow. I believe that the youth is the future and efforts should be made in developing young individuals such that they one day have the capability to lead us. I had never thought before that I would ever get the chance to study abroad let alone Germany until the opportunity came. The key driver was to learn from what I believe to be the best Engineering country in the world and to get the opportunity to grow and learn something new that I can return with and play my part in helping to develop South Africa. The opportunity to become Co Ambassador for South Africa will give me the chance to help young individuals go and study abroad such that they too can learn something new that can help South Africa grow in future.

Languages: English, IsiZulu

Mobility programme, country:
Erasmus Mundus Action 2, Germany

Hedi is from Tunisia and a Professor at the Monastir University, with more than 13 years of experience in teaching and research in the field of sustainable development and environmental protection. International mobility has enabled him to improve his career as a teacher-researcher, to adopt new learning practices to meet the needs of disadvantaged groups. This mobility has also enabled it to exchange knowledge and transfer new technologies and training. This mobility also helped her to be part of a network of experts from other regions of the continent and to be able to interact and exchange ideas and experiences. Hedi became ASAF Co-Ambassador because he would like to serve his community and share the opportunities that exist between Africa and the EU.

Languages: Arabic, French, English, Spanish

Mobility programme, country:
ERASMUS+ short-term International Credit Mobility, France, Spain, Italy

Custody is a technopreneur from Zimbabwe who leverages technology to solve real life problems. Continually astounded by the digital gap that exists in Africa, he founded the TENCHIG Initiative; a social enterprise empowering the youth and women in Zimbabwe with digital literacy skills that will enable them to create their own future and compete favourably in this digital age. His teaching mobility allowed him to gain new exposure, understand European culture and enhance his skills within a quality education system. As an ASAF Co-Ambassador, Custody wants to actively contribute to improving the quality and integration of higher education in Africa by promoting the Erasmus+ exchange mobility programs in Zimbabwe. Custody supports global dialogue between ASAF alumni and students while also empowering members towards their personal and professional development.

Languages: English, French

Mobility programme, country: Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility, Romania