A meeting of researchers and teachers from Ghent University (Faculty of Bioscience Engineering) and Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (Université de Liège) was held in Ghent (Belgium) on Thursday 6 July as part of the UGENT-LIEGE Alliance for Yangambi. During the meeting, Dr Raoul Sambieni presented the opportunities offered to the UGENT-ULIEGE Alliance for Yangambi by the Central Africa platform of the University of Liège.

Discussions focused in particular on the roadmap for the Alliance's future joint actions. The ULIEGE and UGENT Alliance for Yangambi aims to strengthen cooperation between the two institutions in the DRC in general and in the Yangambi landscape.

Professor Baudouin Michel, Director of ERAIFT and Rector of IFA-Yangambi, will be attending the 5th African Union-European Union Ministerial Conference on Agriculture 2023 at the FAO in Rome on Friday 30 June as an invited expert. Together with Professor Roger Ntoto of the University of Kinshasa and Ms Julie Tshilombo, Professor Baudouin Michel coordinated the drafting of the " Profile of the food system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (FAO-CIRAD funded by the EU https://www.fao.org/3/cb8157fr/cb8157fr.pdf )” and has been a member of the "Expert" for the "Task Force for Rural Africa" DG AGRI.