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  Panel Discussion - World Food Day 2016

  Scholarship holder Sara Kaweesa participated in a panel discussion to mark the world food day event organised by Ökosoziales Forum in Vienna.

  1 min read · 06. February 2017
• Project partner Helmut Krieger talks about project ROOTDEVPAL

  In this video Helmut Krieger shortly introduces the project Rooting Development in the Palestinian Context | ROOTDEVPAL and talks about the main pillars of the project, the need to consider the Palestinian diaspora in developmental and academic efforts and many more aspects of their project.

  1 min read · 11. January 2017

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  Film Days 2016 | participation of PROSOWO project

  In cooperation with the "this human world" film festival APPEAR screened the documentary "Unforgiven: Rwanda”. The film presented the process of forgiveness and reconciliation 20 years after the genocide in Rwanda and was followed by a discussion with our current scholarship holder Charles Rutikanga from the University of Rwanda and Helmut Spitzer from the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.

  2 min read · 29. December 2016
• APPEAR project PEEB organised international conference

  The International Engineering Conference IEC6 on Energy Efficient Buildings was organised by the PEEB project. More than 800 participants attended the conference. A comprehensive documentation of the conference has been compiled.

  1 min read · 28. December 2016

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  Kick-off in Georgia - APPEAR project ACCES

  The first meeting of the capacity building project Academic Collaboration for (Building) Capacity in Environmental Studies | ACCES, a partnership between Georgian Technical University (GTU) and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna was hosted by the GTU in Tbilisi, Georgia from the 26th to 30th September 2016.

  2 min read · 14. December 2016

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  Film Days 2016

  This year the film days "Wissen.Schafft.Entwicklung." were organised as a cooperation with two established film festivals in Vienna, namely the VIII. Central American Film Festival and the this human world Festival. In the framework of the cooperation with the this human world Festival the project partners from the APPEAR PROSOWO were invited to participate at the discussion.

  3 min read · 12. December 2016

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  Participation in the conference Tropentag 2016, Vienna

  This year the Tropentag, a development-oriented and interdisciplinary conference, addressing issues such as resource management, environment, agriculture and poverty alleviation worldwide, was held in Vienna on 18-21 September 2016. Sara Kaweesa played a very active role in this conference.

  1 min read · 02. December 2016

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  Workshop on Europass, Euraxess & the Higher Education System

  OeAD organised a workshop on Europass, Euraxess & the Higher Education System on 17 June 2016. Some participants were interviewed after the event and shared their views on the biggest differences in student life when comparing their home country and Austria or the meaning of “being mobile in Higher Education”.

  1 min read · 30. November 2016

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  Participation in Summer School, Vienna, July 2016

  The summer school “Key Challenges in rural development: Bringing economics, management and social sciences into practice” took place in Vienna. Over the course of 2 months, Sony actively and successfully participated in the course programmes consisting of lectures, a field excursion, case study and practical work on development projects for rural communities.

  2 min read · 29. November 2016

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  Participation in Summer School, Vienna, July 2016

  The summer school “Key Challenges in rural development: Bringing economics, management and social sciences into practice” took place in Vienna. Over the course of 2 months, Kevin actively and successfully participated in the course programmes consisting of lectures, a field excursion, case study and practical work on development projects for rural communities.

  2 min read · 28. November 2016

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  Film screening "Revolution with bare hands", May 2016

  This documentary commemorates the national uprising of October 2014 in Burkina Faso, which led to the overthrow of the president Blaise Compaoré. Different protagonists of the uprising are interviewed and symbolic places during the events were visited. The film was screened in the OeAD on 12 May 2016. In the following discussion Idrissa Kabore and Komandan Mano shared their experiences of the political struggle in Burkina Faso.

  1 min read · 27. November 2016
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  Presentation at the African Utility Week, 17-19 May 2016

  The African Utility Week is the largest conference and trade exhibition for African power and water utility professionals and offers a unique networking opportunity for engineers, stakeholders and solution providers in the water and energy sector alike. It is held annually in Cape Town South Africa. Pauline made a presentation in the water and energy sectors, was part of a panel discussion on improving efficiencies in drinking water utilities by integrating water and energy planning.

  1 min read · 27. November 2016