edition was dedicated to the country Armenia, which in recent years established closer ties with Austria through development cooperation but also in the field of higher education. As an innovation and a result of the adoption of digital technologies during the pandemic, the Country Talk was for the first time also live steamed on the OeAD YouTube Channel. The event began with welcome remarks by Gerhard Volz [...] project was facing challenges such as rigid university regulations, but in the end and despite the relatively short time period, the project was a success. A new follow up APPEAR project based on the results started in early 2022: Strengthening Organic Agriculture in Armenia: Participatory Higher Education and Knowledge Exchange for Development. Finally, another APPEAR project related to Armenia, Tran
to the operation of the hub and are based on already available tools and expertise; finally, as a result, will produce digital toolkits, each toolkit showcasing the respective hub’s area of operation and enabling the adoption of the hub based service model by further ESCs. The hub activities and results will be widely disseminated, with the prospect of the established cross-border hubs remaining operational
al management and conservation. Although inundation and flooding may sometime have di-rect environmental benefits, it can however, on the extreme-end can result in to adverse environ-mental degradation through loss of infrastructure. The results will support frameworks for sustain-able restoration and further conservation of the damaged ecosystem and provide better guidance on easements to mitigate [...] Rift Valley Lakes of Kenya led to the expan-sion of Lake Bogoria, Lake Naivasha, Lake Baringo and Lake Nakuru by about 26%, 58%, 61%, 72% respectively. The consequent inundations from the expansions resulted into loss of productive agricul-tural lands often used for pasture and subsistent farming by the local rural communities. In some cases, the surrounding social infrastructure such as schools, dispensaries [...] ongoing postgraduate students at Kenyan institutions. Representative flood risk maps for localised applications will be devel-oped and provided to the relevant water managers in the study regions. Other results from the study will be disseminated through presentations and joint publications. The study will also provide a con-sistent database and new insights of the space-time Lake water level fluctuations
Of the 50 European Universities now funded there is one Austrian higher education institution in every third alliance. On 3 July 2023 the European Commission published the results of the fourth call for application for European University Alliances ( EUI ). A total of 30 alliances were selected in the 2023 call. 23 of these selected EUIs had already been funded under the second call 2020. The conditions
fourth submission deadline for the summer semester 2022 has been opened. The positive development of the regional labour market in the sector of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has resulted in an increasing demand for skilled professionals. The University of Klagenfurt is responding to this demand by training highly qualified specialists in the ICT sector and awarding the University
Edidiong Akang awarded Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship, as a result of Africa-UniNet cooperation with Medical University of Vienna. For a long time, I have been dreaming of doing research to improve the reproductive health of men. When Dr. Mark Wossidlo and I received an Africa-UniNet grant for a project , I became more confident as a researcher, more graduate students
the winter semester 2022 has been opened. Deadline is the 13 March 2022. The positive development of the regional labour market in the sector of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has resulted in an increasing demand for skilled professionals. The University of Klagenfurt is responding to this demand by training highly qualified specialists in the ICT sector and awarding the University
seniors Would senior citizens like to get involved in science and research? Are they interested in this topic at all? Although no figures are available from Austria for this population group, the results of the survey on the scientific attitudes of the EU population (Eurobarometer, 2021) provide an initial indication: although more than half of people over 55 think that science is so complicated that
University of Klagenfurt (AAU) in the winter semester 2024/25 has opened. The application deadline is 4 February 2024. The positive development of the regional labour market in the ICT sector has resulted in an increasing demand for skilled professionals. With its degree programmes in the field of technical sciences, the University of Klagenfurt makes a significant contribution to the training of highly
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