The EMA-African Chapter held a one day conference at the University of Ghana on the 6th of May, 2010 dubbed “Promoting Awareness of Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Scheme in Ghana.” The programme commenced with welcome addresses by the Head of Department of the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana-Mr Kwesi Jonah, the Acting President of the EMA-African Chapter, Ms Karen Basiye, the EMA-Country Representative for Ghana, Justice Oddoi, the President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), the NUGS officer for International Relations-Ms Ivy De-Souza, and the Chairman of the Methodist Presbyterian Students Union (MPU) of the University of Ghana.
The conference continued with a presentation on “Why Study in Europe” by James Anyan, an alumnus of Erasmus Mundus programme and a higher education Consultant for World Bank, Ghana Office. This highlighted the number of advantages European higher education offers to prospective students from Ghana. Then, an introduction of the Erasmus Mundus Programme and the Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA) as well as the EMA-African Chapter by Ms Karen Basiye. She exposed the enthusiastic participants to the Erasmus Mundus scheme and the EMA umbrella organisation and the mission and activities of the African Chapter. This was followed by a presentation by Mr James Nyomakwa-Obimpeh on the Erasmus Mundus Master Courses as well as the Joint Doctoral Programme, elaborating to the conference participants all the various programmes under the scheme according to a range of disciplines.
The next presentation was on the organisation of the Erasmus Mundus Programme regarding the formation and management of consortiums to teaching and awarding of degrees by Kaseem Babatunde. This was followed by Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Application Guide by Justice Oddoi. The main presentations concluded with a ‘telling our Erasmus Mundus Experience’ session by 8 Erasmus Mundus Alumni currently living and working in Ghana as well those from other African countries.
A forum of question and answers was incorporated in the conference to allow students to clarify issues from all the presentations. This was very interesting as multiple questions came up and were well addressed by the presenters and the alumni present.
The conference ended with a networking lunch where participants interacted with alumni from Ghana as well as an opportunity for the alumni to deliberate on how best to move the EMA-African Chapter forward. This conference brought together over 200 participants from multiple universities in Ghana and was covered by Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, a nationwide radio station, Radio Universe - a University of Ghana campus radio station, and the Chronicle and Daily Graphic news papers, print media organisations in Ghana.
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