AIMS-Cameroon is being launched as part of the AIMS Next Einstein Initiative, a coordinated programme to launch 15 AIMS centres across the continent. This ambitious plan has won support from the Governments of Ghana, Senegal, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Canada, and international companies such as Google, recently winning the Project 10^100 competition, selected as one of 5 winners out of 150000 entries as well as RIM the makers of Blackberry.
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) fundado en Cape Town, Sudáfrica en 2003 é un centro de formación-investigación que provee de coñecementos matemáticos avanzados ao alumnado máis capacitado do continente. Desenvolvido en colaboración con varias Univ.de África, proporciona un innovador programa de formación, nun ambiente internacional con curso de conferenciantes que proveñen das mellores facultades de Matemáticas do mundo enteiro.