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APPEAR III - new programme phase starts in December 2020

OeAD is pleased to announce that the successful APPEAR programme will continue. The Austrian Development Agency has commissioned the OeAD to implement the third phase, starting on the 1st of December 2020. The programme will run for another 7 years, until November 2027. The revision of the programme design and preparations for the next call have already started.

3 min read · 31. December 2020
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Video online: OeAD Scholars Talk with Lela Khartishvili

In this OeAD Scholars Talk Lela Khartishvili from Georgia presented her PhD research on community-based tourism development in the mountain regions of Georgia and Armenia.

1 min read · 18. December 2020
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Former and current scholars contribute to SUSFISHBook on Sustainable Fisheries in Burkina Faso

After 10 years of SUSFISH, the project team has put together a book summarizing key findings, insights and results, rounding off a successful partnership.

2 min read · 16. December 2020
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Podcast of Alumni Talks with Prof. Dr. Belachew Gebrewold

The talk focused on scholarships to promote academic partnerships, economic cooperation as well as mutual political and cultural understanding which benefit both the countries of origin and Austria.

1 min read · 15. December 2020
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APPEAR scholarship holder won Inge Dirmhirn Prize 2019

Ayelech Kidie Mengesha was recently awarded the “Inge Dirmhirn Prize 2019’’ for her master's thesis: "Impact of rural land certification on household's decision to plant trees and women's rights to trees: in the case of Gozamen District in East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia”.

2 min read · 10. December 2020
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Hafte Mebrahten Tesfay finishes PhD study on agroforestry in Ethiopia

The research of our APPEAR scholar focused on ecosystem services of indigenous agroforestry systems in the southeastern Rift Valley, Ethiopia. He successfully defended his PhD at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna in early December 2020.

2 min read · 09. December 2020
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APPEAR cooperation with the international human rights film festival – December 6th and 8th, 2020

Traditionally December is the time for cooperation with the Vienna-based film festival this human world. This year the screening of the movies will be online as will be the discussion afterwards with APPEAR project partners, guests and the movie directors.

2 min read · 01. December 2020
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“I shall not give up” – The story of a PhD student and her life after

APPEAR scholar Esther Mukooza from Uganda completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Vienna and is currently working with Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Kingdom of Eswatini in Southern Africa. She tells us about her professional journey after her studies in Austria and explains why one should focus on the goal and not the in-between.

5 min read · 01. December 2020
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APPEAR scholar Abebaw Andarge Gedefaw recently published two articles

The findings of his PhD research are an important contribution to meet the objectives of the EduLAND2 project in particular and in general, to support sustainable land development in Ethiopia.

4 min read · 24. November 2020
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Summary at the end of the programme phase: More than 24,000 euros spent on climate protection

For more than five years APPEAR has been actively engaged in fighting climate change by supporting climate protection projects of the BOKU Competence Center for Climate Neutrality. During this period more than 24,000 euros have been spent on different initiatives in Uganda, Ethiopia, Nepal and Costa Rica.

2 min read · 20. November 2020
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Developing Women’s and Gender Studies in Gaza

The Islamic University in Gaza (IUG) and the research area Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz (Uni Graz) worked together on developing the infrastructure necessary for establishing the discipline of women’s and gender studies in Gaza.

3 min read · 17. November 2020
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Indigenous social work practice in Africa: Telling our practice stories amid COVID-19 Interventions

APPEAR scholarship holder Charles Rutikanga participated in this online event and talked about the indigenous models of problem solving that are built on the Rwandan history and culture.

4 min read · 16. November 2020

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