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Scholarship OeAD Alumni

Welcome & Alumni Talk

The OeAD welcome event for incoming scholarship holders took place on October 25th, 2018 in the OeAD House in Vienna.

1 min read · 31. October 2018
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Alumni Scholarship Studies

Video online: Talk with alumni from Ethiopia

More than 70 scholarship holders from Ethiopia have studied in Austria since the start of the APPEAR programme in 2009. In this video they talk about their experiences.

31. October 2018
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Alumni Development Research

Video online: Some questions to Ethiopian Alumni

More than 70 students from Ethiopia have studied in Austria within the APPEAR programme since its inception at the end of 2009. Before that, scholarships were awarded in the framework of the North-South-Dialogue scholarship programme.

1 min read · 30. October 2018
Podcasts Alumni

AAL_18_Alumni AudioLab with Raymond Ouedraogo

Raymond Ouedraogo has dedicated his career to fishing and water in Burkina Faso. Remarkable, because Burkina Faso is actually an arid landlocked country in West Africa.

2 min read · 30. October 2018
Podcasts Alumni

AAL_17_Alumni AudioLab with Rahel Bekele

Rahel Bekele has been working with information and communication technologies for more than 30 years, especially in the health sector. Among other things on questions like how the maternal and infant mortality in the rural Ethiopia can be lowered with help from an App.

2 min read · 28. September 2018
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Scholarship Topics Incoming ...

Former Ernst Mach scholarship holder Randa Natras participates at the European Forum Alpbach 2018

The former OeAD scholarship holder Randa Natras was awarded a scholarship to participate at the European Forum Alpbach (EFA) held from 15 to 21 August 2018. The engineer of Geodesy from the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina previously had been awarded an Ernst Mach Grant under which she conducted her research project “Regional Ionosphere Modelling over Bosnia and Herzegovina using Global Navigation Satellite Systems” at the Vienna University of Technology from November 2017 to July 2018.

1 min read · 21. September 2018
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Alumni Higher Education Researcher

Austrian Alumni Session held in Beijing

The Austrian Alumni Session aims to establish a platform where Chinese citizens who had learning, research or work experience in Austria and Austrian citizens who currently study in or work with China can build connections with each other.

1 min read · 18. September 2018
Podcasts Alumni

AAL_16_Alumni AudioLab with Vardan Elbakyan

Vardan Elbakyan deals as an astrophysicist with calculations of the universe, in particular with the emergence of new stars.

1 min read · 31. August 2018
Alumni Podcasts

AAL15_Alumni AudioLab with Jernej Kosi

Jernej Kosi is conducting research on Slovenian refugees in the First World War, who had to endure in catastrophic refugee camps in the Austrian hinterland. They were warned much too late.

1 min read · 02. August 2018
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Development Research Alumni

Dr. Yinager Dessie becomes Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia

The former OeAD scholarship holder Dr. Yinager Dessie was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia.

25. July 2018
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Alumni Development Research

Dr.Paul Yillia, former North-South Dialogue Scholarship holder, received Utility Week Industry Award

On May 16th, 2018 Dr. Paul Yillia, a former North-South Dialog Scholarship holder, received the prestigious African Utility Week Industry Award in Cape Town. He received special recognition for his outstanding analytical work on water resource management and planning. The African Utility Week is the most important conference for energy and water specialists in Africa.

3 min read · 19. June 2018
Alumni Podcasts

AAL_13_Alumni AudioLab with Rovidad

Microcredit and microfinance are commonly considered to be an adequate method for poverty reduction, also in Pakistan. But research on a macro level is missing. Rovidad is now researching this as part of his PhD at the University of Vienna.

1 min read · 05. June 2018