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APPEAR in practice_8 recap and photo gallery

APPEAR in practice_8 was dedicated to the water-energy-food security Nexus in Uganda and Kenya. This event was organised in cooperation with the Natural History Museum Vienna.

3 min read · 15. May 2018
Inauguration of Women Studies Center at Islamic University of Gaza

Around 100 participants took part at the opening of the first Women Studies Center at IUG. This event was published and shared by several local newspapers.

1 min read · 07. May 2018
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Visit of Laxenburg and IIASA with scholarship holders, 4 May 2018

Nature walk, sightseeing and Austria’s most famous research institution were combined in this excursion for scholarship holders.

2 min read · 07. May 2018
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TEMACC project meeting in Ethiopia

In April 2018, the TEMACC project team met again in Ethiopia to discuss the project progress and to test the software prototypes in Butajira.

1 min read · 03. May 2018
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Past Events

APPEAR in practice_9: Organic agriculture in action

This event presents experiences on organic agriculture in higher education and research from APPEAR projects in Armenia and Uganda.

5 min read · 01. May 2018
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Inspirational social work conference in Rwanda great success

From the 19th to 22nd of March 2018, one of the biggest international social work conferences on the African continent took place in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, the Land of a Thousand Hills. Under the theme “Professional Social Work and Sustainable Development in Africa”, 500 researchers, educators, practitioners, policy-makers and students came together in order to discuss key challenges of African societies in the 21st century, to deliberate on the role of social work, and to establish national, regional and international networks. The delegates came from 25 countries in Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

2 min read · 27. March 2018
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Innovative teaching methods in higher education

The trend of integrating new information and communications technology into all facets of higher education is continuously expanding. There are different e-learning tools nowadays available; one of the most popular is Moodle. Such tools offer university stakeholders (management, academic staff and students) great opportunities for efficient knowledge transfer and skills, but the practical application under different environments (universities and countries) remains rather challenging.

2 min read · 26. March 2018
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Workshop on Inclusion in Education of Persons with Disabilities in Higher Education

Addis Ababa University (AAU) has recently embarked on different disability related initiatives in order to help students with disabilities succeed in their education. As one of its core activities, the AAU team of the APPEAR project INEDIS has conducted a baseline survey on the status of the inclusion of students with disabilities in the teaching learning as well as services provision in six colleges of the University. Thus, this workshop was organized to share and deliberate on the findings of the baseline research conducted about the status of inclusion of students with disabilities in the six colleges of AAU. In order to make the workshop more comprehensive two other studies conducted by other researchers in AAU about students with disabilities and their experiences were invited and presented.

1 min read · 22. March 2018
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International Social Work Conference in Kigali

The conference is taking place from the 19th to the 22nd of March 2018 in Kigali / Ruanda. It is organised in the framework of the APPEAR project PROSOWO | Professional Social Work in East Africa - Towards Sustainable Impact.

1 min read · 21. March 2018
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activities of scholarship holders

Popularizing scientific results

“It is important to popularize scientific results so that people make informed connections to what is stake in the hope that this can eventually be reflected in the choices they make at all levels.” says APPEAR scholarship holder Sara Kaweesa. Short videos go a long way in doing that. Sara is the narrator of three short videos about conservation agriculture, a topic she is currently working on for her doctoral thesis. Sara stresses that her role as narrator gave her the opportunity to learn more about this topic as well as do something that fits her natural inclination, which is speaking.

2 min read · 05. March 2018
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Workshop “My life in Austria: Transforming social skills into intercultural competence”

“The visitor is the king” is a proverb from Burkina Faso but also used in many other countries. It refers to cultural values in the respective society. Culture can be defined as a way of life that a group of people shares and it builds on the behaviours, beliefs and values that they accept. The objectives of this workshop that was organised for APPEAR scholarship holders were 1) to understand the impact of culture on one’s identity 2) to strengthen awareness for cultural differences and similarities and 3) to develop skills in order to handle intercultural challenges and communication.

4 min read · 05. March 2018
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Social Work Conference 2018

Final programme and book of abstracts for international social work conference in Rwanda now available

1 min read · 05. March 2018

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