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Taiwan-Austria Higher Education Forum 2025

Österreichische Hochschulen, die an einer Kooperation mit Taiwan interessiert sind oder bestehende Partnerschaften vertiefen möchten, haben im Rahmen des Taiwan-Austria Higher Education Forums des OeAD am 29.4.2025 die Möglichkeit zur Vernetzung und zum Austausch.

1 min lesen · 18. Februar 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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GIRT | Report on the 1st project year

The APPEAR project GIRT specifically looks at women’s daily lived experiences in informal settlements in Ethiopia and Mozambique. The project will build capacity in essential transdisciplinary methodologies in the partner universities, which will empower them to function as catalysts of change. In close partnership with local stakeholders, GIRT project partners will co-produce and share new, locally specific knowledge on real world problems and learn how to apply it to improve female informal residents’ living conditions on the ground.

3 min lesen · 31. August 2023
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Clean and prosperous Uganda | CPUg | Report on the 1st project year

CPUg team members have been hard at work trying to make Uganda “cleaner and more prosperous”, as its project title explicitly states. The project is aimed at improving fecal sludge and solid waste management capabilities across the country, with a particular focus on the Imvepi refugee settlement in the northwest part of the country; urban and suburban settings within Wakiso District; and 2-3 selected CDM composting plants throughout the country. The consortium has been working autonomously on its diverse work packages, while collaboration and communication have been pivotal to galvanize efforts in areas where the respective work packages intersect.

2 min lesen · 13. Juni 2023