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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.

02. October 2018
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SUSFISH-plus team meeting in Austria

How can information sharing between scientists, government officials and stakeholders in the water and fisheries management in Burkina Faso be further improved? This question was in the focus of the SUSFISH consortium meeting in Vienna in September 2018.

2 min read · 01. October 2018
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Paper presentation at the Species in Ancient Lakes Conference in Uganda

APPEAR scholarship holder Esayas Alemayehu Negash, as part of his doctoral work, presented a paper entitled “Morphological variations among native populations of the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.1758) in East Africa” at the Species in Ancient Lakes (SIAL) Conference in Entebbe, Uganda.

2 min read · 24. September 2018
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SEA4cities stakeholder workshop in Senegal

The project Sustainable Energy Access for Sustainable Cities (SEA4cities) convenes national stakeholders to an information and exchange workshop scheduled on Tuesday, 25th of September 2018 at 9am at Ecole Superieure Polytechnique de Dakar.

2 min read · 24. September 2018
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Paper presentation at a conference by APPEAR scholarship holder: Species in Ancient Lakes in Uganda

Scholarship holder Papius Dias Tibihika, as part of his doctoral work, presented a paper entitled “East African freshwater fish impasse: Molecular genetic diversity and differentiation of the anthropogenically threatened Oreochromis niloticus inferred from microsatellite genotyping” which took place in Entebbe. The conference (SIAL 8) was jointly organized by the Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda (MUST) and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (JLU) in Entebbe, Uganda from 29th of July to 3rd of August 2018 at Laico Lake Victoria.

2 min read · 13. September 2018
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Partnerships Development Research

APPEAR presents TEMACC-Ethiopia

In this short video clip Dr. Rahel Bekele, national project coordinator of Addis Ababa University, presents the objectives of the project.

3 min read · 11. September 2018
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APPEAR supports climate protection projects

In order to ensure an environmentally sustainable programme APPEAR makes use of the carbon offsetting system provided by the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) and implemented by the Centre for Global Change and Sustainability. With this contribution climate protection projects - selected by an advisory board and accompanied by research and development - are financed.

1 min read · 10. September 2018
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How to implement transdisciplinarity in teaching? Experiences from Armenia and Georgia

APPEAR scholar Tigran Keryan from Armenia participated in the Pilot Transdisciplinary Case Study Courses in Armenia and Georgia in June-July 2018. These field courses, which involved Master, Bachelor and PhD students and teachers from the Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU) and Tbilisi State University (TSU) were the main outcomes of cooperation, trainings and experience exchange of the Caucasian universities with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) and IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems. The goal of the courses was to use case study teaching format and to implement transdisciplinarity in teaching (TD) and interdepartmental cooperation in partner universities.

2 min read · 07. September 2018
Summer School report - Rooting Research in the Palestinian Context II

In July, the second summer school of the APPEAR project Rooting Research in the Palestinian Context II took place at the University of Vienna. Continuing the discussions of the first summer school in Beirut in 2017, the participants further engaged with the overall question of what it means to change perspectives of knowledge production in/on Palestine and Palestinian communities in their different localities.

1 min read · 30. August 2018
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Sharing ideas on philosophy and approaches of organic agriculture

This past May five guests from Armenia were invited to BOKU within the scope of ''Building Organic Agriculture in Armenia'' (BOAA) project.

3 min read · 26. July 2018
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Dr Yinager Dessie becomes Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia

The former OeAD scholarship holder Yinager Dessie presumes the renowned position as Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia.

2 min read · 25. July 2018
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The first conference dedicated to Young African Scientists in Europe (YASE)

“Build your skills, create networks and search for opportunities” was the key message at the final plenary session of the Young African Scientists in Europe (YASE) conference.

3 min read · 25. July 2018