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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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

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  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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  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