The second ACCESS Summer School in 2024 will take place in Tunisia this October. In preliminary to this event, ACCESS Tunisia is excited to announce the corresponding Call for Papers to this event. The conference will be held from the 1st to 5th of October under the theme “Graduate Unemployment in Africa: Towards a Shift in Paradigm”.

Specific fields of interest for conference papers will be the following:

• Theme 1: The impact of education on economic growth: economic growth, wealth creation and individual well-being.
• Theme 2: The paradigm shift in African higher education systems: from massification of university systems to quality training.
• Theme 3 Demographic, economic, political, urban, etc. transition and characterization of paradoxical unemployment in African countries.
• Theme 4: academic training, university intermediation, international migration and recruitment strategies of national and international firms for higher education graduates.
• Theme 5: Entrepreneurship and graduate unemployment.
• Theme 6: Graduate unemployment and regional issues in African countries.
• Theme 7: Graduate unemployment and social movements, particularly after the Arab Spring.
• Theme 8: Matching quality training and employability in African university systems.
• Theme 9: Policies to promote employability in African countries.
• Theme10: Emerging sectors and employability: smart cities, green and circular economy, blue economy, NTIC, AI.