The Academy of Sciences of Guinea (ASG) is the highest scientific forum in the country, at the crossroads of the different disciplines. It encourages the acquisition of knowledge for the national development.

Created in 2020, it is structured into five Colleges: Science and Technology; natural and agronomic sciences; animal and human health; humanities, social sciences, Art and Culture; and legal, economic and political sciences. it has developed a reflection on the major health problems that have arisen in the country. This is particularly the case in the field of health, where, after the humanitarian disaster of Ebola, a pandemic management approach was developed that contributed to lower mortality during the Covid 19 pandemic.

ASG highlights the fact that it has been at the forefront of the rehabilitation of African cultural values. It is keen to highlight the cultural specificities of a Guinean-style democracy.

Several lines of reflection are envisaged:

1. On behalf of the College of Natural and Agronomic Sciences, Prof. Selly Camara called for collaboration in the fields of Water Resources Management; sustainable management of agricultural land as well as problems related to biodiversity and climate change.

2. The College of Science and Technology, according to its President Prof. Tidiane Diallo, remains open to a partnership in the training of teacher-researchers, particularly in Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AI),

3. Dr. Makalé TRAORE, President of the College of Legal, Economic and Political Sciences expressed the need for the co-supervision of doctoral theses,

4. The College of Health Sciences, through its President Prof. Oumou Younoussa Bah, wishes to collaborate in the field of the “One Health” program, as well as in the development of telemedicine in Guinea.

5. The President of the College of Humanities, Social, Arts and Culture Sciences, Prof. Saliou Diallo, expresses a need for partnership in the field of education and pedagogical innovation, as well as in the management of tangible and intangible heritage (history, languages, cultures and arts).

Priorities remain to be established between all these avenues of joint work. The ball is now on the side of the ASG. USF would be delighted to be able to contribute to a reflection on this development aid project through the improvement of the university and scientific system.

Jean Rufier and Xavier Alphaize