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Scholars

Linh Doan’s story: The secret behind “The Dance of the universal pieces”

Linh Doan is a passionate pianist, she was born in Vietnam travelled around the world during the last 10 years, and has witnessed racism towards Asians in the field of classical music. Hence she decided to choose pieces for her graduation concert at the University of Melbourne based on these experiences. Linh has a burning desire to deliver a message of her ideal world –a peaceful place with non-violence and non-racism.

4 min read · 11. August 2020
Podcasts Alumni Researcher

AAL_30_Alumni AudioLab with Dean Vuletic

A podcast about popular culture in Eastern Europe and the Eurovision Songcontest

1 min read · 06. August 2020
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Alumni

Former OeAD scholarship holder Oliver Hauser performs research on the environmental and economic imp

Alumnus Oliver Hauser, who studied physics at the University of Innsbruck between 2007 and 2010 and did his PhD in the field of Biology in Harvard, recently took part in the first Online Meeting for OeAD Alumni on July 15th 2020 and spoke about the situation around Covid-19 in the UK.

1 min read · 04. August 2020
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Development Research Researcher

"Welt im Ohr": International development cooperation in the context of the global COVID-19 crisis

"The COVID pandemic is a global crisis that knows no borders. We either defeat it worldwide or not at all", say representatives of civil society. Ö1 Campus Radio, July 31st, 2020, 8-9 p.m. (from: Global Dialogues Women on Air, June 9th, 2020; first broadcast on Orange 94.0, the Free Radio in Vienna

31. July 2020
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Alumni

Connecting OeAD Alumni from all around the world

The first Online Meeting for OeAD Alumni took place on the 15th of July 2020. More than 80 Alumni from all around the world met virtually and shared stories from the professional and personal life in times of Corona.

7 min read · 24. July 2020
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OeAD Researcher

Kick-off of the AEMS and GBS Summer Universities in Vienna

This week the opening of OeAD Housing's Summer Universities of took place in the Vienna University of Technology's Kuppelsaal.

24. July 2020
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Alumni

OeAD Alumnus developes biohydrogel to overcome drought periods in agriculture

Three quarters of the world farmers rely entirely on rain-fed agriculture. Thus, constant droughts are seriously affecting their livelihoods and threatening world food security. The former OeAD scholar Gibson Stephen Nyanhongo and his team at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), developed a biohydrogel which may help to solve the problem.

3 min read · 22. July 2020
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Call Higher Education

The 1st Call of Africa-UniNet will be opened from 1 AUG – 30 SEP 2020

26 African and 14 Austrian member institutions are welcome to apply for research cooperation projects which contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

2 min read · 22. July 2020
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Higher Education

Africa-UniNet has 40 founding members!

We cordially welcome 26 institutions from 12 African countries and 14 Austrian institutions as official founding members of the Austrian-African Research Network.

1 min read · 21. July 2020
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European Programmes Higher Education

Vier neue Erasmus Mundus Joint Master für Österreich

Die Ergebnisse der Antragsrunde 2020 wurden veröffentlicht. Vier österreicheichische Hochschulen sind an den mit jeweils bis zu 4,5 Mio. Euro geförderten Programmen beteiligt.

1 min read · 21. July 2020
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Development Research Researcher

"Welt im Ohr" (World in your Ear): A youth in Ouagadougou

An insight into the West African education system, based on "Ouaga Girls", a film dealing with the education of young girls in Burkina Faso. Ö1 Campus Radio July 17th, 8-9 p.m. (repeat from Nov. 24th, 2017)

17. July 2020
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Press release Higher Education OeAD

Africa-UniNet starts the first call for proposals with 310,000.- euros

We are looking for research projects of 14 Austrian and 25 African universities.

16. July 2020

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