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Event Summary: 15th S-DHG Forum 2025

Around 60 participants from funding agencies and organisations across Europe and around the world came together for the 15th S-DHG Forum 2025 – the Forum of the Cooperation for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Group (S-DHG), which took place in November 2025 at OeAD in Vienna. The meeting focused on a central challenge: how to communicate the value of higher education cooperation with the Global South during a time of increasing global uncertainty, shrinking budgets, and shifting political priorities.

3 min lesen · 04. Dezember 2025
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Report on the kick-off meeting of REVITAL-MU-ADU

In July 2025, Mekelle University, in partnership with Adigrat University and international collaborators, inaugurated the REVITAL-MU-ADU Project under the theme “Revitalizing Mekelle and Adigrat Universities’ Academic Capacity Post-Conflict: Introducing Peri-Urban Agroforestry for Climate Resilience, Forest Restoration, and Women’s Livelihood Enhancement.”

2 min lesen · 18. September 2025
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BioGold | Report on the 1st project year

The project aims to combine biosorption and chemical remediation techniques to treat contaminated wastewater and tailings, and rehabilitate contaminated soils, thereby safeguarding vulnerable ecosystems around artisanal gold mining (ASGM) areas in Uganda. The biochar composites will be developed from locally available biomass to make them suitable for remediation of the soils for agricultural purposes.

2 min lesen · 06. August 2025
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GIRT | Report on the 3rd project year

GIRT’s third project year was dedicated to analysing the qualitative research phase in Ethiopia and Mozambique. Once interviewing was completed at all four study sites, a preliminary assessment of the data was conducted. Altogether, more than 400 interviews with female and male residents in informal settlements and slums had been conducted by researchers, as well as PhD students and research associates affiliated with the project. In a joint effort, the project team conceived a master plan for transcribing, translating and coding all interviews.

3 min lesen · 05. August 2025
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COVIOCRIM | Report on the 1st project year

The project Countering Violent Crime against Women and Girls in Georgia (COVIOCRIM) aims at building a professional network of “first responders” in order to effectively and sustainably address the challenges of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Georgia. The project will implement interactive and interdisciplinary training programmes, expand academic qualification opportunities, and establish a Legal Clinic in Tbilisi to provide victims of VAWG with accessible and immediate support. The first year focused on conducting regional training sessions across Georgia in the cities of Batumi, Zugdidi, Borjomi, Telawi, Gori, and Tbilisi.

2 min lesen · 26. Juni 2025
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Clean and prosperous Uganda | CPUg | Report on the 3rd project year

At the end of the third year of the project, the project team can present many outputs, both in research and in teaching. All participating institutions - TU Wien, Makerere University, Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Uganda Red Cross Society, report significant results.

4 min lesen · 19. Mai 2025
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Higher Education for resilient resources in refugee–host areas | AMUTI | Report on 2nd project year

Over the past year, the AMUTI project has made remarkable progress in strengthening research capacity, enhancing institutional collaboration, and deepening community engagement between Austrian and Ugandan partners. As part of the APPEAR Programme, AMUTI brings together Muni University, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna and PALM Corps to advance transdisciplinary research and co-creation of knowledge in refugee and host community settings.

3 min lesen · 09. Mai 2025
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Edu4GEO2 | Report on the 2nd project year

The second year of the project was characterised by the reopening of universities in the Amhara region following the outbreak of conflict. This enabled the launch of the Geomatics Master's programme. Courses were delivered using a team-teaching approach, with Austrian lecturers teaching online via Zoom and Ethiopian colleagues providing on-site support. Initial community services were provided for land administration experts and local farmers. Equipment for DMU and BDU teaching and learning activities has been ordered and will be used in future.

2 min lesen · 08. Mai 2025
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GIRT | Report on the 2nd project year

The everyday lives of women in informal settlements in Ethiopia and Mozambique are the focus of the research project "Strengthening Research and Educational Competences of HEIs for Gender sensitive Urban (InfoRmal Settlement) Transformation" (GIRT). Using transdisciplinary methods, a participatory process is to be developed with local stakeholders in four selected cities to improve the living conditions of women. At the same time, the project will address how transformative, knowledge-led cooperation between societies and science is possible in the context of the Global South.

3 min lesen · 08. Oktober 2024
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Edu4GEO2 | Report on the 1st project year

Major achievements in the first year included the development and approval of a new MSc Geomatics curriculum for DMU, the initiation of PhD projects for Ethiopian students funded by APPEAR scholarships, and the awarding of an honorary doctorate to Reinfried Mansberger for his contributions to academic cooperation in Ethiopia.

3 min lesen · 10. Juli 2024
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Clean and prosperous Uganda | CPUg | Report on the 2nd project year

Another busy project year on the books for APPEAR project, “Clean and Prosperous Uganda – Fecal Sludge and Solid Waste Management for Improved Livelihoods”. Where to start?

3 min lesen · 05. Juni 2024
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Higher Education for resilient resources in refugee–host areas | AMUTI | Report on 1st project year

The AMUTI project stands as a beacon of hope and progress, dedicated to enhancing multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary capacities for sustainable natural resource management in Ugandan refugee-host communities.

3 min lesen · 05. Juni 2024

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