various ongoing activities of the institute, e.g. on-site collection care projects, workshops and conferences, which have expanded my knowledge and endowed me with better decision-making skills. The result and experience of internships is disseminated in the form of presentations at the institute, at the Indian Embassy in Vienna, and then, back in the home country, in association with the Austrian Embassy
expertise from Africa and Europe. The Africa-UniNet has also given Maseno University the opportunity to further collaborate in research activities beyond the network. For the future, he expects that the results of already funded projects can be followed up and, where possible, scaled up to provide tangible, applied solutions to the challenges facing developing countries. Felicia Yieke represents Laikipia
intelligence, data science especially in machine learning where she focuses most on Recommender systems, User rating behaviour, Personalization and Online Social Network Analysis. Based on the promising results of her work, Carine and her supervisor decided to even extend and deepen the topic of her research in her PhD thesis. Although she had to overcome different obstacles, Carine successfully graduated
Programmes (BIPs). Participants presented the BIPs they implemented so far and a session on administrative examples of good practice provided further opportunities for peer learning. In addition, the results of a survey conducted among students who completed a BIP in the academic year 2022/23 on their experiences and perceptions of BIPs were presented. The PLA was organized on the occasion of the launch
director of OeAD, Jacob Calice, mentioned in his welcome speech that the conference shows that the network is “entering a new phase in its evolution”, since there is a “much stronger focus on the results of the projects that have been conducted”. On another level it reflects that the network is working and that collaborations are deepened. The next step is to expand the horizons to increasing funding [...] Meggy Kantert and Christian Anieke from Godfrey Okoye University participants reflected on their own explicit and implicit project expectations, which are influenced by culture as well as expected results, and may change over time. This interactive exercise was an eye-opener for many participants as it became clear that most expectations are not openly stated. Meggy Kantert gave participants concrete
of the interrelations between literature and philosophy. New ideas and new experiences I have gained working on this project, became a good impulse for me to intensify my research and present its results at the conferences as well as at lectures and seminars for my students. In addition, I had the possibility to get acquainted with the Viennese cultural heritage, to attend the most interesting museums
practical aspects of my research but also exposed me to cutting-edge technologies in the field. Which impact did your scholarship in Austria have on your personal and professional development? As a result of these investigations, we have recently published a paper titled „Development and Characterization of Cationic Nanostructured Lipid Carriers as Drug Delivery Systems for miRNA-27a“ in Pharmaceuticals
came back to Innsbruck again in 2016 for 4 months with the Ernst Mach Follow-up Grants to continue the research with a promising Vietnamese medicinal material Dracaena cambodiana. We gained very nice results with the contributions of many experts in different fields and had an outstanding publication. After this project, I had always thought about future cooperation projects with University of Innsbruck
Later, we succeeded in explaining molecular mechanisms of a chemical (DDT) toxicity in oyster and obtained potential proteins to be used as a biomarker for DDT pollution in marine environments. As a result, we have published our research findings in one of the most outstanding scientific journals in the environmental field “Environmental Pollution”. It was my pleasure to work with professional and talented
initial phase, its importance decreases somewhat once there are established patterns of cooperation. Another vital issue in research cooperation between Kenya and Austria is the dissemination of project results. All speakers on the panel unanimously agree that the knowledge that is gathered and generated in projects of all kinds must be fed back into the communities to bridge any gap between the communities [...] to the day-to-day livelihoods of people. Nzula Kitaka also pointed out that communities may be important partners in the research process. Stakeholder participation and the dissemination of project results beyond academia are therefore essential. Finally, it was discussed which target groups should be addressed through funding schemes in higher education cooperation. While the initial focus of cooperation