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  Successful kickoff-meeting of project on peacebuilding and conflict transformation

  APPEAR-funded Partnership between Haramaya University and the University of Innsbruck. A report by Adham Hamed.

  5 min read · 28. February 2018

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  © Elke Stinnig

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  Volunteering at the Open Learning Initiative Courses for Refugees – OLIve

  The University of Vienna is offering free academic courses for individuals with refugee or asylum seeking status in Austria or another country of the European Economic Area (EEA) who have an interest in pursuing university studies.

  1 min read · 12. February 2018

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  APPEAR on air - peace studies at University of Innsbruck and Haramaya University

  Dr. Gutema I. Keno, project coordinator of the APPEAR project HU-UIBK Partnership for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (PSICPCT) and his project team from Haramaya University in Ethiopia were interviewed by FREIRAD - Freies Radio Innsbruck.

  1 min read · 06. February 2018
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  Partnerschaftlich und auf Augenhöhe!?

  Gleichberechtigung in Partnerschaften im Kontext von Forschungskooperationen zwischen Österreich, Armenien, Georgien und Äthiopien sowie im Umfeld von mehrjährigen Auslandseinsätzen

  2 min read · 06. February 2018

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  Lecture on gender and human rights at the Medical University of Vienna by APPEAR scholarship holder

  Having a lot of experiences in human rights APPEAR scholarship holder Elshaday Kifle Woldeyesus was invited in the winter semester 2017 to speak in a lecture series on "International Health and Humanitarian Work" at the Medical University of Vienna.

  2 min read · 02. February 2018

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  Participation in Winter School 2018 "Science meets Practice"

  In January 2018 Tigran Keryan from Armenia participated in the Transdisciplinarity Lab (TdLab) Winter School 2018 "Science meets Practice" organized by ETH Zurich which took place in Wislikofen, Switzerland. The goal of the TdLab Winter School "Science meets Practice" is to offer scientists the knowledge and experience to generate and cultivate a fruitful dialogue with people outside of academia.

  1 min read · 01. February 2018
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  Fisch gegen Hunger

  Welt im Ohr stellt in dieser Sendung die Frage, ob nachhaltige Fischerei Ostafrikas Nahrungsmittelknappheit lösen kann.

  2 min read · 24. January 2018

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  Project meetings, workshops and public lecture of SHE-GE project

  The SHE_GE project (Strengthening Higher Education Capacities in Palestine for Gender Equality) has just finished their first project exchange visit that took place at the University of Graz. Project coordinator Prof. Dr. Sanaa Abou-Dagga from the IUG (Islamic University Gaza) travelled to Graz to present the project within the university and at a public lecture.

  1 min read · 12. January 2018

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  Project coordinator Rahel Bekele Teklegiorgis as role model for female leadership

  Rahel Bekele Teklegiorgis is the principal investigator and leader of the APPEAR project entitled "Technology Enabled Maternal and Child Health Care (TEMACC-Ethiopia)". In 2016 she took the initiative and gathered a team of experts around her. Together they succesfully submitted a project application within the framework of APPEAR.

  1 min read · 21. December 2017

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  © Elke Stinnig

  Past Events

  Workshop "How to become an active agent for human rights" - recap and photo gallery

  How to become an active agent for human rights is a crucial question at a time where authoritarian leaders and governments get into power all over the world. In order to defend human rights it is important to have a sound knowledge of this concept. Therefore, our workshop started with an introduction by Jens Kessler and Julia Streimelweger from Amnesty International Austria who presented the general concept of human rights, the history of the human rights movement, and major (international) legal frameworks on human rights.

  6 min read · 21. December 2017

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  APPEAR on air - Ö1 Dimensionen with STRECAFISH project

  Team members from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) were invited to the radio broadcast "Dimensionen", a well-known broadcast that focuses on scientific questions and presents the results of applied research. In this edition, the focus was around aquaculture in East Africa, the topic of the APPEAR project STRECAFISH.

  1 min read · 18. December 2017

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  PhD candidate Sony Baral from Nepal participated at IUFRO 125th Anniversary Conference

  In September 2017 Sony Baral had participated in the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Conference in Freiburg, Germany. She got full sponsorship by the IUFRO to present a paper related to her first research objective “Effect of Harvesting in Forest Stand Condition: A case from Nepal.” Furthermore, the presented paper has been further improved and in the process of submission. IUFRO is an international network which promotes global cooperation in forest-related research.

  1 min read · 13. December 2017