The Consortium for the Management of Basic and Applied Research in Africa south of Sahara (french: Consortium pour le Management de la Recherche Fondamentale et Appliquée en Afrique au Sud du Sahara) or COMREFAS is an international multidisciplinary institution whose purpose is to structure and enhance the

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and

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in the following

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Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

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Management Science Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

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Public law Public law is the part of law that governs relations between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that are of direct ...

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Private Law Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the ''jus commune'' that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations ( ...

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Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

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Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...

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Social Sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

, * Applied Science and Technology.

History

Created in 2009 by the Network of Universities of Science and Technology of the Countries of Africa south of the Sahara (RUSTA), the COMREFAS is the

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common to all member institutions of the RUSTA (

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, University of Science and Technology of Togo,

University of Science and Technology of Ivory Coast The University of Science and Technology of Ivory Coast (french: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Côte d'Ivoire (UST-CI)) is a private university in West Africa whose headquarters are located in the district of Plateau in Abidjan, the ...

Higher Institute of Technology of Ivory Coast The Higher Institute of Technology of Ivory Coast (french: Institut Supérieur de Technologie de Côte d'Ivoire (IST-CI)) is a private institution of higher education and research whose headquarters is in the district of Plateau in Abidjan, the e ...

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, the economic capital of

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Mission

The COMREFAS's mission is to contribute to the development and enhancement of

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in the countries of

. This is part of a desire to unite the

scientific community The scientific community is a diverse network of interacting scientists. It includes many " sub-communities" working on particular scientific fields, and within particular institutions; interdisciplinary and cross-institutional activities are als ...

around a shared vision, challenging and promising future for African societies. To do this, the COMREFAS promote : * the academic and scientific cooperation, * exchanges with organizations and institutions, * dissemination of knowledge through

scientific meeting An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals an ...

s, * the training of

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, etc.

Components

The COMREFAS consists of five

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: * Research Laboratory in Management of Organizations (LAREGO) * Laboratory of Applied Studies and Research in Public and Private Law (LAREAD) * Laboratory of Experimental Studies in Economics (LAEXSE) * Multidisciplinary Laboratory Experiments in Social Sciences (LAPLESS) * Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory Applied Science and Technologies (LAPRESTA)

References

External links

Official website
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