Leadership Engagement Meeting

Tuesday 10 Dec 2024, 09:00 → 17:30 Africa/Freetown

New Brookfields Hotel

This event is a Leadership Engagement Meeting organized by SLREN, scheduled in December 2024 at New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The meeting builds on recent FCDO-supported activities to embed sustainable practices in open science). It aims to bring together leaders from higher education, regulatory bodies, and research funders to discuss and advance open science, research infrastructure, and national research and education networks (NREN) in Sierra Leone.

09:00 → 10:45 Priority Area 1: Coordination and Prioriry

09:00 Welcome Remarks

Speaker: Mrs Fatmata Kaiwa

09:05 Workshop overview

Speaker: Dr Thomas Songu (SLREN, Njala University, SierraLeone)

09:15 Keynote Address

Keynote Address by the Hon Minister of Technical & Higher Education

Speaker: Dr Ramatulai Haja

09:30 Break & Photos

10:00 Presentation1: An overview of Global Responsible Research Assessment Trends

10:20 Presentation 2: Institutionalising Open Science Policy of Sierra Leone

Speaker: Prof. Osman Sankoh

10:40 Q&A

10:45 → 12:15 Priority Area 2: Enhancing Research Infrastructure: Positioning SLREN for the provision of interner connectivity in HEIs

10:45 Positioning SLREN for the provision of interner connectivity in HEIs

11:05 Bridging the Scholarly Divide: A sustainable and Inclusive Approach to Persistenct Identifiers

Speaker: Omo Oaiya (WACREN)

11:25 Enabling Academic Publishing with Open Access Books

Speaker: Miriam Conteh-Morgan (University of Sierra Leone)

11:45 Interactive Q & A

12:15 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:15 Strengthening Research Capacity

13:00 An overview of the National Online Grant Management Syetm

Speaker: Dr Thomas Songu (SLREN, Njala University, SierraLeone)

13:20 Building Capacity for Research Data Manageent (RDM) Coordination on Campus

Speaker: Prof. Jonas Redwood-Sawyerr

13:40 Transforming from Print Journals to Digital Publishing through Diamond Open Access

Speaker: Prof. Osman Sankoh

14:00 ○ Interactive Q & A

14:15 → 14:45 Tea Break

14:45 → 17:30 Roundtable DiscussionL Cultivating a Culture of Research Excellence: Mativating Researchers , Posterting an Innovative Academic Environment

14:45 Panel Discussions

Panelists:
○ Chair: National Science Technology and Innovation Council
○ Chair: Conference of Vice-Chancellors & Principal (CVCP)
○ Chair, Consortium of Academic Libraries, Sierra Leone
○ CEO, Sierra Leone Research & Education Network (SLREN)