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Expected Main Trends of Growth:

I - The CEAUP is expected to expand in 3 main ways:

1. Increased interaction with researchers, mainly African ones, due to intensive research formation:
   
   
1. New Masters degree
   The number of post-graduations and Masters on African Studies, organised by CEAUP, in Porto and in African countries, have been increasing and will continue to do so in the next 3 years. These new post-graduations will now be implemented in cooperation with other Faculties of the University of Porto (Sciences of Education; Economics; the Department of Genetics and Population of the Faculty of Medicine). This will widen the number of specialised fields and will certainly contribute to increase the number of future CEAUP researchers. We have begun cooperating with two African Universities (Cape Verde and Luanda), lecturing courses with the collaboration of African teachers and co-supervising post-graduation theses. These post-graduations are supposed to include field work in the pilot experiences the CEAUP intends to implement in the next 3 years.
2. Short-term courses
   Specialised short-term courses in the fields of Project Management, Mass Media in Africa and Social and Educational Sciences have been and will continue to be taught in Porto and in African countries. In collaboration with the Africa Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) we will participate in the common organisation of summer schools.
3. PhD
   From 2008 on, there will be a PhD in African Studies, in cooperation with the above mentioned Faculties of the University of Porto. It is expected to become a much more efficient way of interacting with African studies centres and universities with the purpose of increasing the formation of teachers and qualified technicians widen students' mobility mainly with the Portuguese-speaking African countries.
   
   
2. Growth of the number of research areas:
   
   The CEAUP's research areas will include not only a wider range of social sciences projects, but also projects from the natural sciences areas (Agronomics, Population Genetics, and Environmental Sciences).
   
   We also intend to create areas of applied research centred in pilot-projects. They aim to implement cultural changes in the educational, environmental and agricultural domains. The expected results of the pilot-project framework will be the incorporation of scientific outputs, obtained from the experience in the field, with local partners (associations and NGO organisations in Cape Verde, Angola and Cameroon). We have also the support of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, with which we collaborate in a financed European program against African Poverty.
   
   As a result, we have now a growing number of researchers who are not scholars but who are able to bring us their accumulated knowledge from field experience.
   
   
3. Enlargement of CEAUP's network connections and geographical study areas:
   Without neglecting our traditional research activity and partnership with some Portuguese-speaking African countries, we will expand, by means of our pilot projects, our work area to:
   
   
• Senegal (University Cheik Anta Diop, the Portuguese Embassy and the Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur de fleuve Sénégal) ;
• Acção para o Desenvolvimento (Guiné-Bissau)
• Cameroon (SODECOTON) ;
• Egypt (Centre d' Études et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale, American University of Cairo, Economic Research Forum, Université Senghor, Alexandria) ; Institut Ibn Khaldun ;
• Ethiopia (University of Addis Ababa, Centre Français de Études Ethiopiennes and Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office) ;
• Sudan (University of Khartoum, Sudanese Environment Conservation Society, Centre d' Études et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale) ;
• Ivory Coast - GERLINAC -Abidjan.

II - A more efficient diffusion of our outputs:

1) The number of published books in our "Colecção de Estudos Africanos" as well as in Africana Studia will increase, as it will be shown in the tables presented by the research groups. In order to present a part of these expected outputs and to fully integrate our research in the international scientific research on African societies, we will alter the periodicity of our annual peer review Journal. From January 2008 on, it will be published twice a year.

2) Apart from our Journal, the new webpage will display an estimate of:

The web page is also expected to contain an increasing number of online data bases, which will be produced as an outcome of our research. The latest one is a large data basis called: "Dicionário de Negreiros em Moçambique 1750-1897", (Slave dealers in Mozambique 1750 - 1897 Dictionary) by José Capela.