The year 2015 marks the deadline set for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). ANIE's 6th Annual Conference addresses the contribution of the University partnerships and internationalization towards the attainment of these goals with a focus on Africa. It will discuss the impacts of partnerships in research and innovations, mobility, governance, capacity building and knowledge transfers as they relate to the 8MDGs. Our focus is on results not intentions, actualities not potentials, practice and not theory.

• Institutional partnerships for research and societal development
• Curriculum innovations towards the achievement of the MDGs
• Internationalization, Gender Equality and the MDGs
• Fostering global partnerships for locally relevant impact