The activities of the academic Divisions of the ICMCS are carried out within the context of the Centre’s SIX CARDINAL PROGRAMS. These are the following cross-cutting programs:

• Capacity Building and Lifelong Learning: through cutting-edge training,  research and development activities; courses, conferences, workshops and exhibitions; concrete applications;  partnerships; mathematical and computer literacy; institutional management capacity building;  staff development;  and the award of small grants and  prizes to young scientists as ways of promoting quality research activities and rewarding excellence.

• International Cooperation and Visiting Scientists: through networking; internship; exchange/linkage; lectureships; research visits; sabbaticals; short-term visits; assistantships; and fellowships 

• Science, technology, engineering, mathematics and ICT (STEMICT) innovation: encompassing all aspects of teaching, research, student supervision, mentoring, advising, counseling, curricular and pedagogical innovation in various programmes of STEMICT education at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels of training in African tertiary education institutions. 

• Industrial, Business, Medicine and Engineering Applications: through the concrete and sustained applications of the mathematical sciences, computer sciences and information technology to development issues; identification and tackling of hot topics from the industry, business and engineering; and joint research activities with the industry, business and engineering.

• Gender Equity and Affirmative Action: through enhancing female participation and affirmative action in training, research and consultancy activities; lifelong learning for women and disadvantaged groups in the mathematical and computer sciences; and role-modeling by women experts in the mathematical and computer sciences at all levels of education.