The Gambia's MoHERST and Senegal's AIMS signed a Dec 2025 MoU and launched an AIMS satellite centre in Bijilo in June 2026, giving Gambian students, lecturers and secondary-school maths teachers access to postgraduate mathematics, data-science and AI training.
Details
Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Gambia Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST) & African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Senegal
Period
Dec 2025 (MoU) – Jun 2026 (campus launch)
Keywords
higher education, government, research capacity-building, teacher training
Context
On 10 December 2025, The Gambia's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology signed an MOU with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Senegal to establish an AIMS satellite centre in The Gambia, formally launched 23 June 2026 in Bijilo.
Results
The satellite centre gives Gambian students and lecturers access to AIMS's postgraduate programmes in mathematical sciences, data science and AI, both at the Senegal campus and across the wider AIMS network in Rwanda and South Africa, with professional development for university lecturers and secondary-school maths teachers.
Conclusions
The centre had just opened at launch, with no cohorts, enrolment figures or completed research output yet reported, and no public funding figure was disclosed for the initiative.
Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
AIMS Senegal faculty supporting the satellite centre
Conditions for success
long-term roadmap to grow into a full AIMS Centre of Excellence tied to The Gambia's Vision 2050 strategy
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