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  Project ROOTDEVPAL organised Summer School in Beirut

  The team members organised in July 2017 the first out of two summer schools, which was held in Beirut. The summer school covered amongs others topics such as the research environments in Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan, as well as conducting feminist research, the question for whom knowledge is produced for and critical knowledge production.

  1 min lesen · 17. Oktober 2017

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  Presentation and publication by scholarship holder Kevin Obiero

  Scholarship holder and PhD student Kevin Obiero presented a paper entitled "Knowledge management and investing in human resource capacity development for aquacultural education and training in Africa" at the Annual International World Aquaculture Conference. The conference took place in Cape Town, South Africa on 28th of June 2017.

  2 min lesen · 10. Oktober 2017

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  STRECAFISH project held a “Women in Aquaculture” training workshop

  The training was organised as part of University-Public / Private Partnership and brought together 23 women stakeholders mostly fish farmers, NGO representatives and government extension officers.

  1 min lesen · 05. Oktober 2017

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  Participation at European Forum Alpbach

  The European Forum Alpbach organises annually an interdisciplinary conference in the Austrian Alps, which provides a platform for scientists, politicians and students of different disciplines coming from all over the world to discuss and exchange ideas. Scholarship holder Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw got a scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation to participate in this year’s forum which took place between the 16th of August and 1st of September 2017 and was dedicated to the topic “Conflict and Cooperation”.

  2 min lesen · 11. September 2017

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  Annual meeting of ACCES project team in Georgia

  The Georgian Technical University (GTU), Tbilisi was the venue for the first annual meeting of the APPEAR project ACCES. The GTU and the BOKU teams, the academic and administrative staff of two universities and public stakeholders came together from 10th to 12th July 2017 having intensive discussions and interactive mutual exchange. The overall objectives of the meeting were reviewing of project progress by the implementation of the current activities and more detailed planning of the forthcoming actions. The project showed a good progress, as most of the scheduled activities for the first project year have already been implemented.

  2 min lesen · 07. September 2017

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  TEMACC project meeting in Linz

  In June 2017, the TEMACC project team met in Linz to take stock of what has already been accomplished and to lay out the tasks of the coming months.

  1 min lesen · 05. September 2017
• Community based rehabilitation workshop in Ethiopia

  In the framework of the APPEAR project INEDIS, the project partners organised a workshop and invited citizens with various disabilities and their relatives from the Gedeo zone in Ethiopia. The training covered five important areas, namely: 1) Human Rights and Disabilities, 2) Social inclusion between PWD (persons with disabilities) and their parents, 3) Reflection on life experience by PWD in relation to their profession, 4) Vocational skill training and 5) Inclusive education for persons with disabilities.

  1 min lesen · 23. August 2017

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  First joint field study within the APPEAR project CapNex

  Students and scientists from the Technical University of Kenya (TU-K), Makerere University and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) visited the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi River Basin (SMMRB) in Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda for a joint scientific expedition.

  2 min lesen · 11. August 2017

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  STRECAFISH Team met for the second annual meeting in Eldoret, Kenya

  Eldoret, “The city of champions”, in western Kenya was the venue for the second annual meeting within the STRECAFISH project. Team members from all of the four partner countries (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Austria) came together in Sirikwa Hotel having a two days intensive conference from June 15th to June 16th, 2017.

  2 min lesen · 02. August 2017

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  The project Building Organic Agriculture in Armenia (BOAA) is off to an excellent start

  BOAA is a higher-education based project developed in cooperation with the International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE) in Yerevan, The Armenian National Agrarian University (ANAU), and The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Through this project it is their intention to be able to support the Armenian organic sector in closing the gap between farmers and science through the education and training of young professionals ready to enter the workforce.

  3 min lesen · 01. August 2017

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  Social Work Conference 2018: Call for abstracts

  The conference will take place from 20th to 22nd of March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda. Abstracts can be submitted until 15th of October 2017.

  2 min lesen · 20. Juli 2017

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  Four Ugandan agricultural scientists within the APPEAR project AER explored Austrian organic farms

  During two weeks in May 2017 a group of four Ugandan agricultural scientists from the Mountains of the Moon University from Western Uganda together with their partners from BOKU (Division of Organic Farming and the Centre for Development Research) went on excursion trough several areas in Austria to discover and experience the differences and similarities in the implementation of the principles of organic farming by organic farmers.

  1 min lesen · 21. Juni 2017