The African School of NeuroImmunology, AFSNI 2025

The African School of NeuroImmunology, AFSNI, one of the schools organized by ISNI through the Global Schools of Neuroimmunology, has started on April 12^th 2025 in Rabat, Morrocco, hosted by the Mohammed V University. It will last until April 16^th 2025. This is not the first AFSNI co-branded school. However this is the first time ISNI has been able to provide partial economical support this school. African international schools in neuroscience are mostly supported by the International Brain Research Organization, IBRO, of which ISNI is a partner. It is different organizing schools in Africa as compared to other continents. The most relevant difference is that schools need to provide complete support for students: travel, accommodation, food. Air tickets, especially, are extremely expensive for students from sub-Saharan Africa. As a practical consequence, most students are from the hosting country. Also this time we have 8 students from Morocco. But, thanks also to the money provided by ISNI, we also host 3 students from Ghana, 2 from Nigeria, 1 from Tunisia, 1 from Kenya, 1 from Cameroon. We had to select these 16 students from over hundred applications. For these students this is not only a unique opportunity for education, but an opportunity for networking, meet professors, learn about opportunities abroad, start new collaborations. Many alumni of our previous schools have changed their professional trajectories thanks to this opportunity, at the point that there will be an ISNI-Neuroimmunology symposium at the next Society of Neuroscience of Africa (SONA) in Marrakech, right at the end of this school, where the speakers have been all selected from former students of our schools. The whole credit for these activities goes to Prof. Willias Masocha, co-Director of AFSNI, originally from Zimbabwe and now teaching in Kuwait, and Prof. Nouria Lakhdar-Ghazal from Morocco, who both relentlessly work to make this happen. #WeAreNeuroimmunology all over the world, also in Africa.