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  Elshaday Kifle Woldeyesus - Involvement in human rights events

  Elshaday Kifle Woldeyesus started her doctoral studies at the University of Graz in October 2017. She works at the Center for Human Rights at the Addis Ababa University and holds a master’s degree from the United Nations mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Having a lot of experiences in human rights Elshaday was invited as speaker for two events in this regard.

  2 min read · 12. December 2017

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  'Professional Social Work in East Africa' extended to Eastern Congo

  The project PROSOWO II is targeted towards strengthening social work education and practice in countries of the East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda). In neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where poverty and violence is widespread, there is dire need for social work services, too. But there is no single social work training institution in the entire region, nor are there sufficient qualified social work professionals. The few social workers don't have a professional association and only very limited influence on social development and policies.

  1 min read · 23. November 2017

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  APPEAR strengthens human rights education

  Human Rights Education at universities and in civil society – examples from the University of Graz, Addis Ababa University and Amnesty International Austria was the topic of the APPEAR workshop that was organised in the course of the 7th Austrian Development Conference in November 2017 at University of Graz.

  4 min read · 22. November 2017
• New article on PROSOWO (Promotion of Professional Social Work in East Africa) published

  Helmut Spitzer is a Professor of Social Work at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria. He is the coordinator of the projects PROSOWO I and II whose objective is to strengthen social work education and practice in East Africa. Recently he has written an article with the title "Social work in East Africa: A mzungu perspective", that was published in the journal International Social Work, a scholarly peer reviewed journal.

  1 min read · 22. November 2017

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  “Tropical Agro-ecosystems Conference” from 13th to 16th of December 2017, on Ssese Islands, Uganda

  In the second week of December 2017 the team of the APPEAR Project Strengthening of Higher Education, Research and Community Outreach in Agro-Ecology in the Rwenzori Region in Western Uganda | AER will participate in the “Tropical Agro-ecosystems Conference” which will take place on the Ssese Islands in Lake Victora, Kalangala District, Uganda. The aim of the conference is to exchange knowledge, strengthen the agroecological network and to foster agroecological policy implementation in tropical areas.

  1 min read · 16. November 2017

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  On knowledge, the mobile phone and agriculture

  "Farmers have to be involved in the generation of knowledge, so that their traditional knowledge and specific demands can be considered". SCARA in the OeAD.news 104 (in German)

  14. November 2017
• "If you cannot be found on the internet, you are invisible"

  Doris Bauer on Open Access as an opportunity for researchers from the "global South" to participate in the global knowledge discourse, published in OeAD.news 104 (in German)

  14. November 2017

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  AAPLHRE project participates at Film days 2017

  In this event, researchers of the APPEAR project AAPLHRE in Ethiopia that focuses on human rights education will give additional input on current land use rights and land grabbing, developments and drawbacks in this regard. They are invited as speakers for the discussion after the movie "Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas".

  2 min read · 13. November 2017

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  International Social Work Conference - organised by PROSOWO II project

  Members of the Conference Organizing Committee met in Rwanda to take concrete action for the 2018 social work conference in Kigali, Rwanda. So far, almost 300 delegates have already registered for this event coinciding with World Social Work Day 2018.

  1 min read · 09. November 2017

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  SUSFISH-plus kick-off meeting

  The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna was the venue for the kick-off meeting within the SUSFISH-plus project. Burkinabe delegates (Raymond Ouedraogo, Moumini Savadogo, Patrice Toe, Adama Oueda) came together with all Austrian SUSFISH-pus key scientists for an intensive five days meeting from 8th to 12th of May 2017.

  2 min read · 30. October 2017

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  activities of scholarship holders

  Participation at European Forum Alpbach

  The European Forum Alpbach organises annually an interdisciplinary conference in the Austrian Alps, which provides a platform for scientists, politicians and students of different disciplines coming from all over the world to discuss and exchange ideas. Scholarship holder Girum Kinfemichael Gebremariam got a scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation to participate in this year’s forum which took place between the 16th of August and 1st of September 2017. Read the reflection of Girum Kinfemichael Gebremariam on this year’s topic Conflict and Cooperation.

  4 min read · 25. October 2017

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  Project ROOTDEVPAL organised Summer School in Beirut

  The team members organised in July 2017 the first out of two summer schools, which was held in Beirut. The summer school covered amongs others topics such as the research environments in Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan, as well as conducting feminist research, the question for whom knowledge is produced for and critical knowledge production.

  1 min read · 17. October 2017