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  Film screening "Revolution with bare hands", May 2016

  This documentary commemorates the national uprising of October 2014 in Burkina Faso, which led to the overthrow of the president Blaise Compaoré. Different protagonists of the uprising are interviewed and symbolic places during the events were visited. The film was screened in the OeAD on 12 May 2016. In the following discussion Idrissa Kabore and Komandan Mano shared their experiences of the political struggle in Burkina Faso.

  1 min read · 27. November 2016
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  Presentation at the African Utility Week, 17-19 May 2016

  The African Utility Week is the largest conference and trade exhibition for African power and water utility professionals and offers a unique networking opportunity for engineers, stakeholders and solution providers in the water and energy sector alike. It is held annually in Cape Town South Africa. Pauline made a presentation in the water and energy sectors, was part of a panel discussion on improving efficiencies in drinking water utilities by integrating water and energy planning.

  1 min read · 27. November 2016

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  Speaker at OeAD AlumniTalks | Kevin Nyongesa, March 2016

  Kevin Nyongesa was invited to act as a speaker for the yearly OeAD AlumniTalks. The title of his presentation was "How to build up successful partnerships".

  1 min read · 25. November 2016
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  Education for Sustainable Development - Article in the OeAD news, October 2015

  The OeAD news, published by the OeAD, is a non-scientific quarterly print journal on (higher) education and internationalisation for the general public in Austria. On the occasion of the European Year for Development the edition in October 2015 focused on development and education. As a researcher in the UN global initiative - Sustainable Energy for All - Yillia was requested to comment on education for sustainable development.

  1 min read · 24. November 2016

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  Winner of the Inge Dirmhirn Prize

  The BOKU has awarded the Inge Dirmhirn Prize to Lemlem Aregu Behailu, a former APPEAR scholarship holder from Ethiopia.

  1 min read · 22. November 2016
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  6th National Science and Mathematics, Research and Innovation Award of Ethiopia

  The 6th National Science and Mathematics, Research and Innovation Award of Ethiopia was awarded to Tesfaye Getachew Mengistu and his team at the Debre Berhan Agricultural Research Center.

  1 min read · 20. November 2016

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  APPEAR - Publication | Contribution by Kalkidan Obse

  2 min read · 18. November 2016
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  APPEAR - Publication | Contribution by Wossen Argaw Tegegn

  Creating transdisciplinary and transnational spaces of mutual learning and participative research is the interest of APPEAR. The programme has established 17 academic partnerships with institutions across Latin America, Africa and Asia since its inception in 2009. The recent APPEAR publication describes these examples of participative and transcultural knowledge production.

  2 min read · 14. November 2016
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  Article in the Journal of Environmental Hazard

  APPEAR grant holder from Uganda has recently published two articles.

  2 min read · 10. November 2016

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  Book publication: Fire Management in Forests and National Parks of Kenya

  1 min read · 04. November 2016
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  Ö1 Campusradio - Connecting the World? Zugang, Gendergap und Chancen in „ICT4SDG“

  Radio broadcast about the topic of access to and possibilities of ICT4SDG, as well as the gender gap in ICT-related development interventions.

  2 min read · 28. October 2016
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  Ö1 Campusradio - 300 Jahre „Nachhaltigkeit“: Die Lösung für globale Probleme?

  Radio broadcast about the question concerning sustainability and whether it can be perceived as the solution to global challenges.

  2 min read · 08. July 2016