African Light Source Foundation
LAAAMP collaborates with the African Light Source Foundation. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 22 April 2020.
The African Light Source (AfLS) Foundation is mandated to drive the progress along the Roadmap towards the establishment of an Advanced Light Source on the African Continent. Many on the continent and beyond had been advocating for a Pan-African light source since the 90's, where a first major milestone was via EBASI in 2000 (ebasi.org, Edward Bouchet-Abdus Salam Institute), at the formation of the African Laser Centre in 2001 (africanlasercentre.net). Early ideas and conversations dating from the turn of century have now led to a rather broad, unified and inclusive grouping, which forms a coherent home of its own and many other projects with the common vision for an Advanced Light Source in Africa. The AfLS was formed in 2015, at the AfLS-1 Conference, generating the Grenoble Resolutions and AfLS Roadmap.