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Empowering Engineering Education: Highlights from HEESeB's Training of Trainers

As part of the Strengthening Capacity of Higher Engineering Education for Sustainable Buildings (HEESeB) project, three Training of Trainers (ToT) courses were successfully held from 30 September to 3 October. These courses focused on key issues for the advancement of education in this field.

1 min read · 23. October 2023
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Digitally Connecting Real and Virtual Environments Devision DEvision | Report of the First Year

DEvision is an initiative aiming at the integration of geospatial online and blended learning modules into curricula of multiple subjects.

3 min read · 17. October 2023
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EcoServ Summer Activities: Sustainable Management of Armenian Aquatic Ecosystem Services

Throughout the summer of 2023, EcoServ project team members were actively involved in several activities to increase capacities and strengthen partnerships.

2 min read · 17. October 2023
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Development Research

SOAA brings together organic stakeholders and the teaching team at Armenian tea company

The APPEAR project SOAA continues cooperation between the organic pioneers in Armenia and the teaching team of the Organic Agriculture Master’s program (OAMP).

2 min read · 16. October 2023
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13th ANIE Conference | Summary report

The 13th ANIE Annual Conference was held in Zanzibar from 4-6 October 2023. The conference centered around the theme Reframing Knowledge Partnerships for Mutual Benefits and Africa’s Needs.

4 min read · 16. October 2023
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Thaddeo Kahigwa Tibasiima completes PhD on sustainable land use for coffee production in Uganda

He defended his PhD in Agriculture from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna in Mai 2023.

7 min read · 09. October 2023
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Higher Education Development Research Researcher

Debre Markos University in Ethiopia awards Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Reinfried Mansberger

Debre Markos University in Ethiopia awarded the first honorary doctorate of Science to Dr. Reinfried Mansberger.

2 min read · 03. October 2023
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Alumni Development Research

Former scholar appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Technical University of Kenya

We are proud to announce that our former scholar Prof. Benedict Mwavu Mutua has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Technical University of Kenya on 25 August 2023.

2 min read · 01. October 2023
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APPEAR scholar Gerald Kwikiriza presents at International Society for Animal Genetics Conference

Gerald Kwikiriza shares his experience of attending an academic conference in South Africa

2 min read · 05. September 2023
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Development Research Researcher

OeAD Country Talk Kenya, 18 September

Join us at the event on 18 September 2023 to learn more about the culture and the higher education system of Kenya and university cooperations.

7 min read · 05. September 2023
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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 read · 31. August 2023
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Heyam Al Najjar completes PhD study on the renewable energy potential in the Gaza Strip

Heyam Al Najjar has defended her PhD at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna in June 2023.

6 min read · 22. August 2023

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