SLU’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Maria Knutson Wedel and RUFORUM’s Executive Secretary, Dr. Patrick Okori sign the agreement.

Agreement signed with African university network promoting agricultural education and research

News published:  09/10/2025

On 25 September, SLU’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Maria Knutson Wedel and RUFORUM’s Executive Secretary, Dr. Patrick Okori has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two institutions.

RUFORUM, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, is a network of 175 universities in 40 countries in the five regions of eastern, southern, central, west, and north Africa.

This MoU will enable increased opportunities of collaboration between SLU and RUFORUM in several areas, including writing common applications, exchange of students and academic staff between SLU and RUFORUM’s member universities, and joint advocacy about investments in higher education in Africa.

 

From left: RUFORUM’s Executive Secretary, Dr. Patrick Okori, Research Advisor, SLU Global, Ioannis Dimitriou; Head of SLU Global, Sara Gräslund; and SLU’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Maria Knutson Wedel. Photo: Malin Planting

After the signing of the MoU and a working lunch taking place at Ullbo, Dr. Okori had the opportunity to further discuss about joint concrete actions within the collaboration areas, and shared stories from his stay during his PhD studies in Ultuna in the beginning of 2000. 

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