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  • Gorup of people with a big white flag with information on the 28. World Social Work Day on it walking on the streets
    © Elke Stinnig

    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
  • Group of people posing for a picture under a big APPEAR poster
    © Alemayehu Tekelemariam

    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
  • Gorup of people with a big white flag with information on the 28. World Social Work Day on it walking on the streets
    © Elke Stinnig

    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
  • Sara Kaweesa holding up her smart phone and looking into the camera sideways
    © Guibien Cléophas Zerbo
    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
  • Group picture of participants and trainers
    © Elke Stinnig

    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
  • conference programme and book of abstracts
    © PROSOWO

    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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