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This Winter School was part of an initiative aimed at advancing mathematical education and collaboration, with a specific focus on fostering ties between diverse groups and promoting mathematical modeling as a tool to address biomedical challenges, especially within the African context. Participants gained valuable skills and experience, contributing to the global effort to enhance mathematical competence and diversity.

It focused on equipping participants, specifically postgraduate students and early-stage researchers, with the vital skills in mathematical modeling and the fundamental mathematical tools essential for advanced study and research. The program also fostered connections between scholars in Mathematical Biology from the participating countries UK, Africa and abroad.

A platform was provided to facilitate interactions and support among the participants, encouraging a collaborative learning environment. Initiating a dialogue on how mathematical modeling can be applied to real-world biomedical and by extension socio-economic-problems in Africa will be a specific area of focus. Furthermore, there was an emphasis on promoting the development of mathematical modeling techniques within African educational institutions.

Additionally, this Winter School fostered the exchange of knowledge across international boundaries and will played a significant role in helping the recruitment or co-supervision of African graduate students by ICMS institutions, thereby working towards improving or building up diversity in Mathematical Science. 

This school was part of a series of events that emerges from the collaboration of three bodies: The 3MC program (Mathematical Modeling Mini-Courses program, Potchefstroom, South Africa), PIMS (Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Canada) and ICMS (International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK).