A sustainable framework
We want to act at the level of what we believe to be the most sustainable form of support and one of the most basic human rights: With education. In doing so, we follow a bottom-up approach, i.e. we want to find the young hope bearers who, despite a generally perceived lack of prospects or perspective, have decided to stay in their home country - or at least on their continent - and grow into potential role models and change makers. To this end, we focus on African students and doctoral candidates who are enrolled at African colleges or universities. We want to give them the opportunity to apply for funding and support for an environmentally sound research project. This will enable them to deepen and broaden their professional knowledge to solve self-defined local challenges by developing African solutions, which will additionally support them in qualifying for a possible career in the university environment, but also in the free economy. In our model, a professor from the respective African universities, together with other African and European volunteer experts, is responsible for assessing the feasibility, evaluating the projects and mentoring the African students and doctoral candidates. We as 3 E's 4 Africa e.V. ensure, in addition to funding the research projects, that all relevant actors are networked with each other and that the values that are important to us, which include a largely self-sufficient operation of the African students and partners, are prioritized and sufficiently taken into account.