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TEMACC project meeting in Linz

In June 2017, the TEMACC project team met in Linz to take stock of what has already been accomplished and to lay out the tasks of the coming months.

1 min read · 05. September 2017
Community based rehabilitation workshop in Ethiopia

In the framework of the APPEAR project INEDIS, the project partners organised a workshop and invited citizens with various disabilities and their relatives from the Gedeo zone in Ethiopia. The training covered five important areas, namely: 1) Human Rights and Disabilities, 2) Social inclusion between PWD (persons with disabilities) and their parents, 3) Reflection on life experience by PWD in relation to their profession, 4) Vocational skill training and 5) Inclusive education for persons with disabilities.

1 min read · 23. August 2017
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First joint field study within the APPEAR project CapNex

Students and scientists from the Technical University of Kenya (TU-K), Makerere University and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) visited the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi River Basin (SMMRB) in Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda for a joint scientific expedition.

2 min read · 11. August 2017
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STRECAFISH Team met for the second annual meeting in Eldoret, Kenya

Eldoret, “The city of champions”, in western Kenya was the venue for the second annual meeting within the STRECAFISH project. Team members from all of the four partner countries (Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Austria) came together in Sirikwa Hotel having a two days intensive conference from June 15th to June 16th, 2017.

2 min read · 02. August 2017
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The project Building Organic Agriculture in Armenia (BOAA) is off to an excellent start

BOAA is a higher-education based project developed in cooperation with the International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE) in Yerevan, The Armenian National Agrarian University (ANAU), and The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Through this project it is their intention to be able to support the Armenian organic sector in closing the gap between farmers and science through the education and training of young professionals ready to enter the workforce.

3 min read · 01. August 2017
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Social Work Conference 2018: Call for abstracts

The conference will take place from 20th to 22nd of March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda. Abstracts can be submitted until 15th of October 2017.

2 min read · 20. July 2017
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Four Ugandan agricultural scientists within the APPEAR project AER explored Austrian organic farms

During two weeks in May 2017 a group of four Ugandan agricultural scientists from the Mountains of the Moon University from Western Uganda together with their partners from BOKU (Division of Organic Farming and the Centre for Development Research) went on excursion trough several areas in Austria to discover and experience the differences and similarities in the implementation of the principles of organic farming by organic farmers.

1 min read · 21. June 2017
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SUSFISH-plus project partners took part in the launching ceremony for Lake Bam restoration project

Former scholarship holder and national project coordinator of APPEAR project SUSFISH-plus met the President of Burkina Faso and presented the APPEAR project.

2 min read · 21. June 2017
New article on ROOTDEVPAL project in journal frauen*solidarität

Team member Klaudia Rottenschlager has published an article in the latest issue of the Austrian journal frauen*solidarität.

1 min read · 16. June 2017
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activities of scholarship holders

Publication from scholar Kevin Obiero in "Bulletin of Animal Health and Production in Africa"

This journal's special Edition is focused on Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources. Kevin Obiero together with colleagues from Austria and Africa published an article on knowledge management and investing in human capacity development that can be accessed online.

2 min read · 16. June 2017
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activities of scholarship holders

ie.talk on “Rooting Development in the Palestinian Context: Research in War and Conflict Zones”

Scholarship holder Imad Sayrafi participated in the ie.talk on the 24th of May at the University Vienna.

1 min read · 16. June 2017
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Past Events

APPEAR in practice_7 recap and photo gallery

APPEAR in practice_7 was dedicated to sustainable fish management in Burkina Faso. This event was organised in cooperation with the Museum of Natural History Vienna.

4 min read · 22. May 2017

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