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Scholars Entwicklungsforschung

Africa-Uninet Project133_Uganda: Enhancing African Catfish Aquaculture in Uganda

Hatchery Propagation, Population Suitability, and Broodstock Management

2 min read · 04. August 2025
© Abdi Mohammed

External Calls and Activities Stipendium Entwicklungsforschung

Supporting African Science and Tertiary Education (SASTE) Grant - 4th Call open until November 2025

The SASTE grant supports high potentials 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 · 26. February 2025
© Dr. Endale

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
© Bahir Dar University/CUAS

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
© OeAD/Studienverlag

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
© Elke Stinnig

activities of scholarship holders Alumni Entwicklungsforschung

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
© OeAD_Nina Zuckerstätter

Alumni Entwicklungsforschung

Former scholar appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Technical University of Kenya

We are proud to announce that our former scholar Prof. Benedict Mwavu Mutua has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Technical University of Kenya on 25 August 2023.

2 min read · 01. October 2023
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Entwicklungsforschung Forscher/innen

OeAD Country Talk Kenya, 18 September

Join us at the event on 18 September 2023 to learn more about the culture and the higher education system of Kenya and university cooperations.

7 min read · 05. September 2023
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Wissenschaftskommunikation Hochschule Entwicklungsforschung

APPEAR in practice_17: From EduLAND to Edu4GEO

Join us at the event on 9 May 2023 at 18:00 at the OeAD. Presentations and discussion followed by networking with food and drinks. Ethiopian and Austrian project partners will present their APPEAR projects on land administration in Ethiopia.

4 min read · 24. March 2023
© Doris Wimmer

Entwicklungsforschung

APPEAR in practice_13: Water, energy and food security in East Africa

Insights into integrated natural resource management with examples from Kenya and Uganda.

3 min read · 14. August 2019