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Transdisciplinarity for sustainable tourism development in Georgia

In Tsagveri community, the first case study course in the framework of the APPEAR project Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caucasus Region | CaucaSusT took place in July 2018.

2 min lesen · 15. Jänner 2019
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Final event of ROOTDEVPAL project in Vienna

The ROOTDEVPAL team is organising this final event / lecture with the title "Development and/as Resistance: Experiences of an APPEAR-project on Palestine", taking place on Wednesday, 16th of January 2019, 4.15-5.45 pm.

1 min lesen · 15. Jänner 2019
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Selecting the best young bulls in a participatory manner

Community-based breeding programmes, as implemented in the LoCaBreed project in Burkina Faso, involve all local stakeholders from designing and planning to the implementation. The aim is to improve local cattle breeds, without inclusion of “exotic” genetic material.

3 min lesen · 14. Jänner 2019
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Entwicklungsforschung Hochschule

Transdisciplinarity for sustainable tourism development in Armenia

In Meghradsor community, the first case study course in the framework of the APPEAR project Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caucasus Region | CaucaSusT took place in June 2018.

1 min lesen · 10. Jänner 2019
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Hochschule Partnerschaften Entwicklungsforschung

Article on inclusive education in oead.news 107/2018

Article in German only! "Inklusive Bildung als Leitziel der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit" ist der Titel des Artikels von Prof. Gottfried Biewer von der Universität Wien, der die circa 10jährige Kooperation der Universität Wien mit äthiopischen Hochschulen im Bereich Inklusion in der Bildung kurz portraitiert.

1 min lesen · 08. Jänner 2019
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Alumni Entwicklungsforschung Forscher/innen

Former North-South Dialogue scholarship holder Basanta Raj Adhikari received Young Affiliates Award

On 29th November, 2018 Dr. Basanta Raj Adhikari has received the "Young Affiliates Award" of the World Academy of Sciences - TWAS in Trieste, Italy. He received this prestigious award for his outstanding contribution in the field of natural science. Basanta Raj Adhikari is an assistant professor and researcher at the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

2 min lesen · 02. Jänner 2019
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activities of scholarship holders

PhD Research on aquaculture systems in Kenya

APPEAR scholarship holder Zipporah Gichana, as part of her doctoral work, presented a paper entitled “Effect of Different Biofilters on Performance of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in a Small-Scale Recirculating Aquaculture System” at the 6th Conference of the Pan African Fish and Fisheries Association, held from 24th to 28th of September 2018 in Malawi. The conference theme was “African fish and fisheries: diversity, conservation, sustainable management and development”.

3 min lesen · 02. Jänner 2019
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Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Film Days 2018

In collaboration with the Vienna-based film festival this human world, APPEAR organised an evening at the Top Kino Vienna. In this event, researchers of the APPEAR project ROOTDEVPAL in Palestine were invited as speakers for the discussion after the movie "The Judge".

2 min lesen · 20. Dezember 2018
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activities of scholarship holders

APPEAR scholar Kevin Obiero was been awarded a certificate for the best talk

Kevin Obiero's talk entitled "Impacts of water level fluctuations on fisheries of Lake Turkana: World's largest permanent desert lake" was presented during the 8th Species in Ancient Lakes (SIAL8) Conference held from 29th July to 3rd August 2018 in Entebbe Uganda.

2 min lesen · 20. Dezember 2018
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activities of scholarship holders

PhD research on participatory approaches to curriculum development in higher education in Armenia

This summer APPEAR scholarship holder Hasmik Hovakimyan started her empirical data collection for her PhD research and helped support the APPEAR project BOAA. She started with getting acquainted with the organic sector and its stakeholders. To do so she held a series of participatory focus groups discussing various themes relevant to the project.

4 min lesen · 20. Dezember 2018
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Vergangene Veranstaltungen Partnerschaften Hochschule

Partnerships between Austria and the South Caucasus: featuring APPEAR and Erasmus+

There are many and various cooperations between Austrian higher education institutions (HEI) and partner institutions in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - this was clearly visible during this forum entitled "Schwerpunktregion Kaukasus: Vertiefung und Good Practice mit Beispielen aus Erasmus+ und APPEAR", which took place during the OeAD and Erasmus+ HEI conference 2018 in November at FH Campus Wien. The following report is in German only.

3 min lesen · 18. Dezember 2018
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activities of scholarship holders

PhD research on Palestinian resistance in the village of Ni'lin

APPEAR Scholarship holder Imad Sayrafi presented his paper entitled "Contextualizing Resistance; Indigenous Narratives and the Progression of an Ongoing Settler Colonialism; The Case of the Palestinian Village of Ni’lin" in the Vienna Anthropology Days Conference on 21st of September, 2018.

2 min lesen · 17. Dezember 2018