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5th Call for Africa-UniNet Research Cooperation Projects

Proposals for cooperative research projects can be submitted until 17 March 2025 (extended deadline).

1 min read · 28. January 2025
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Mini Symposium: New Genomic Technologies - A Versatile Toolbox for Crop and Livestock Improvement

Invitation to half-day Symposium at BOKU: Monday, 10 February 2025, 14:00 – 18:00 CET

2 min read · 28. January 2025
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Report: Summer School 2024:“Decolonizing Pathways:

The ACTS Summer School 2024, themed “Decolonizing Pathways: Transformational Leadership by Curating Change across Sustainable Science Communication,” took place from 25 August to 1 September in Diani, Kenya.

4 min read · 26. January 2025
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Entwicklungsforschung

Africa-UniNet & KoEF project meeting held at Haramaya University, Ethiopia

Team members of an Africa-UniNet project and a KoEF project held a meeting at Haramaya University from 14-15 November 2024.

2 min read · 15. January 2025
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External Calls and Activities

5th KoEF Call for funding

The 5th KoEF Call for funding is open until 17 March 2025 (extended deadline).

2 min read · 10. December 2024
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Entwicklungsforschung

Storymap: Collaborative Monitoring for Sustainable Development of Lake Tana UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

This is the story about Africa-UniNet Project P049 in which two scientific institutions joined forces with the local population to keep track of the spread of water hyacinth by using an innovative collaborative monitoring approach.

1 min read · 04. December 2024
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External Calls and Activities Stipendium Entwicklungsforschung

Supporting African Science and Tertiary Education (SASTE) Grant - 3. Call open until November 2024

The SASTE grant supports post-docs from Sub Sahara Africa working in the field of Agriculture, Forestry, Water Management, Renewable Energies, Nutritional Science, Human and Veterinary Medicine for a research stay in Austria. In case of strong involvement of Technical Sciences and IT in research projects of the mentioned fields, these areas of research are also eligible for application.

2 min read · 27. November 2024
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Entwicklungsforschung

New Publication: Knowledge and Development V

The book presentes the best texts from the Young Talent Austrian Development Research Award 2023, as well as contributions of the winners of the main prize.

3 min read · 24. November 2024
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23 new Africa-UniNet projects to start in 2024

In the framework of the 4th Africa-UniNet call 23 cooperative research projects between universities and research institutions in Austria and in African countries were accepted for funding.

5 min read · 06. June 2024
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Video about Sonnia Nzilani Musyoka's career and environmental work in Kenya

Former APPEAR scholar Sonnia talks about her motivation to establish an environmental NGO to combat climate change in Kenya and her professional career as Makueni County Minister.

2 min read · 13. May 2024
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Tropentag 2024 at BOKU

Tropentag, the annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development will be taking place at BOKU on 11-13 September 2024.

1 min read · 02. May 2024
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External Calls and Activities

Invitation to University of Saïda (Algeria) "International Staff Mobility Week 2024"

This year, for the second time University of Saïda (Algeria) organises the "International Staff Mobility Week" from May 5 to 9, 2024.

1 min read · 14. March 2024