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activities of scholarship holders

Geographic information systems for sustainable development

APPEAR scholar Sheilon Lopez acquired skills and knowledge in this regard at the Geoservices-4-Sustainability Summer School in Germany.

3 min lesen · 14. Dezember 2018
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Good news from Burundi

Social work in Burundi is a relatively young profession that faces the challenges of dealing with the complex problems of a post-conflict society. In 2016, a team from Hope Africa University joined the PROSOWO project in order to promote social work in their own context.

1 min lesen · 14. Dezember 2018
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Round table in Tbilisi on promoting innovative educational programmes

On 24th of October 2018 the Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences hosted a round table with the core team of the APPEAR project "Academic Cooperation for Environmental Education" (ACCES)” between GTU, Georgia and BOKU, Austria.

2 min lesen · 12. Dezember 2018
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Gone fishin' - Video on SUSFISH-plus project

A video by master student Jaime Caballer Revenga illustrates the approach that the international student team under the supervision of project leader Andreas Melcher, BOKU Vienna, Idrissa Kaboré, Mano Komandan and Jaqueline Sow took.

1 min lesen · 10. Dezember 2018
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Call for Abstracts – International Symposium Egerton University 27th – 28th February 2019

The APPEAR project SCARA is hosting an international symposium on ICT and Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture.

1 min lesen · 10. Dezember 2018
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Vergangene Veranstaltungen

APPEAR in practice_11: The art of mastering e-learning

"We tend to forget that it is not that ‘e’ but the ‘human’ that is learning when we discuss the opportunities of digital learning", stated one of the speakers during the APPEAR in practice event on 28th of November. However, using these new technologies requires skills, knowledge and of course the respective infrastructure. Based on the lessons learnt from the SCARA project the societal impact of new technologies, accessibility to and adoption of new technologies were discussed.

8 min lesen · 04. Dezember 2018
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Veranstaltungsdokumentation Partnerschaften Entwicklungsforschung

Austausch und Vernetzung laufender APPEAR-Projekte

Mittwoch vergangener Woche, am 28.11., fand im OeAD-Haus ein weiteres APPEAR-Projektleiter/innen-Treffen statt. APPEAR ist das Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development.

2 min lesen · 03. Dezember 2018
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Exchange visit to the Center for Students with Disability at Addis Ababa University

In the framework of the second annual meeting of the INEDIS project, Lukas Ertl from Barrierefrei Studieren at the University of Vienna visited Addis Ababa University. Besides participating at the annual meeting and getting to discuss with the project partners from three Ethiopian universities, he also spent some days at the Center for Students with Disabilities at Addis Ababa University. He was shown the equipment and provisions for Students with Disabilities and had the opportunity to exchange with representatives from the Center on the situation of Students.

1 min lesen · 03. Dezember 2018
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The second SEA4cities webinar...

...successfully gathered participants from three countries on discussing the local dimension in energy governance. The webinar started with an overview of SEA4cities facts followed by a Wiki Energy presented by the project coordinator, as a contribution to understanding of some energy related concepts that would appear later in the presentation.

7 min lesen · 27. November 2018
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Entwicklungsforschung Veranstaltungsart

APPEAR in practice_11: The art of mastering e-learning

Challenges and opportunities, examples from Kenya, Austria and Namibia. Presentations and discussion on 28th of November at 6pm at OeAD.

4 min lesen · 12. November 2018
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activities of scholarship holders

Paper presentation on “Life Experience of Street Children in the City of Kigali”

Charles Rutikanga, current APPEAR scholar and PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, participated at the International Conference on Child Protection in Africa. He presented his PhD research topic on “Lives in Adversity: Life Experience of Street Children in the City of Kigali”.

3 min lesen · 09. November 2018
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Film Days 2018 - Cooperation with this human world film festival

On the 7th of December the movie The Judge will be screened at the Top Kino in Vienna. The movie explores the story of Judge Kohloud is the first female judge to be appointed to a sharia court in the Middle East. The film shows the challenges she faces in a deeply patriarchal society.

1 min lesen · 09. November 2018