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SUMMARY:Summer School: "Making knowledge policy-relevant: The SSH’s role 
 in global sustainable development"
DESCRIPTION:The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulating 
 and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on Afr
 ican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes theoretically\, co
 nceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of reflection on t
 he intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge on the one h
 and and its contribution to general scholarship on the other.\\r\\nThe Bas
 el Summer School 2023 addresses the challenge of policy relevance in the 
 social sciences and humanities (SSH) in general and area studies in parti
 cular by mapping out the differences between basic and applied research. T
 he crucial distinction is between knowledge production geared towards unde
 rstanding problems and knowledge production aiming at identifying solution
 s. The Summer School aims to harness the strengths of basic research in fi
 elds bearing directly on development in Africa to emphasize the need for a
 n actual understanding of the problems to be addressed. Policy relevance s
 hould bear on working out the terms under which good problem definitions c
 an yield policy options. The ultimate goal of the Summer School is to help
  participants develop critical skills enabling them to become researchers 
 who live up to the highest scientific standards and are equipped with the 
 transformative skills to make an impact. 
X-ALT-DESC:<p>The Basel Summer School in African Studies aims at stimulatin
 g and consolidating a new perspective on African Studies with a focus on A
 frican Studies as “area studies”. It addresses themes theoretically\, 
 conceptually and methodologically relevant to the pursuit of reflection on
  the intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge on the one
  hand and its contribution to general scholarship on the other.</p>\n<p>Th
 e Basel Summer School 2023 addresses the challenge of&nbsp\;<strong>policy
  relevance in the social sciences and humanities (SSH)</strong>&nbsp\;in g
 eneral and area studies in particular by mapping out the differences betwe
 en basic and applied research. The crucial distinction is between knowledg
 e production geared towards understanding problems and knowledge productio
 n aiming at identifying solutions. The Summer School aims to harness the s
 trengths of basic research in fields bearing directly on development in Af
 rica to emphasize the need for an actual understanding of the problems to 
 be addressed. Policy relevance should bear on working out the terms under 
 which good problem definitions can yield policy options. The ultimate goal
  of the Summer School is to help participants develop critical skills enab
 ling them to become researchers who live up to the highest scientific stan
 dards and are equipped with the transformative skills to make an impact.&n
 bsp\;</p>
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