Former MADM Student Installed as President of MaK PhD Fellows

Our former student Gerald Ahabwe, MADM Alumnus of 2009, was installed as President of the Phd Fellows at Makerere University (Pf@Mak) last week. This group was established to "bring together PhD fellows to actively provide each other with mutual academic support, producing timely high quality research through networking, peer reviewing, sharing funding opportunities and timely study completion." Please find more information here.

Congratulations for achieving this responsible position, and best wishes for your work for the PhD community at Makerere University!

No Call for Scholarship applications for the 2023 intake!

There will be no Call for Scholarship applications in the year 2022 for the intake in 2023!

Farewell, Archbishop Desmond Tutu!

The SA-GER CDR is saddened by the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who took part in the opening of our Centre and who holds an honorary doctorate of Ruhr University Bochum.

UWC celebrates "A Life, Legend And Legacy That Will Never Fade". 

MADM student Setonji Ogunbiyi nominated for the "Goal of the Month"

Setonji Obunbiyi, a student of the MA programme in Development Management (MADM) and DAAD scholarship holder, was nominated for the "Goal of the Month" on German TV last Saturday (Tor des Monats, Sportschau, ARD). We are very proud of him and encourage everyone to vote for his goal online (https://www1.sportschau.de/tdm/tdm) until October 23, 2021.

Setonji has longstanding experience in amputee football in his home country Nigeria and even participated in the Amputee World Cup in Mexico in 2018. Since October 2020, directly after starting the MADM in Bochum, he has been playing for Fortuna Düsseldorf and has greatly enjoyed the interactions with his team. Setonji briefly shared some insights on his experience with Fortuna Düsseldorf in the last IEE newsletter edition.

Participation in the DAAD Centres of African Excellence Online Research Fair

On September 28-30, 2021, members of the 12 DAAD Centres of African Excellence, further experts from related institutions as well as colleagues from the DAAD joined an Online Research Fair called 'Past and Future Research for Inclusive and Sustainable Development‘, organized by the Centre for Development Research ZEF, Bonn University, and the DAAD West African Centre for Sustainable Rural Transformation. Colleagues from both partners of the South African-German Centre for Development Research, the University of the Western Cape and the Ruhr-University Bochum, contributed in several sessions.

Overall, roughly 80 participants joined for the exchange and discussions of research and scientific projects taking place at the different Centres in order to explore potential synergies, particularly with a focus on opportunities within the new „Round Table Africa“ initiative of the German Government. Participants enjoyed a rich and inspiring programme with lots of opportunities to get into discussion with colleagues about cross-cutting themes and developed bases for further joint projects.

Collaboration between the African Centers of Excellence and beyond will be further enhanced through the new DIGI-FACE platform. This project, funded by the DAAD, aims at supporting and facilitating networks of higher education teaching, learning, and research on the African continent. The launch of the platform will take place on October 1, 2021.

Britta Niklas, Anne Siebert, and Ruth Knoblich adding research topics to the digital pinboard

The Call for (MA) scholarship applications for the intake 2022 expired!

The Call for scholarship applications for the intake 2022 expired.

Selection Results will be announced until 10th September!

Please don't send any emails asking for the status of your application before this deadline.

Congratulations to DAAD Alumni Dr. Kennedy Alatinga

DAAD Alumni Dr. Kennedy A. Alatinga has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Planning and Land Management at SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Sutides in Wa, Ghana.

SD Dombo University together with UWC among others is as well a partner university in the new European Doctorate Programme "ADAPTED".

Call for Scholarship Applications 2021 for Post Docs and Staff

Post Docs have the opportunity to apply for scholarships at 1) at universities or research institutions in Germany or 2) Sub-Saharan African universities.

(Senior) staff members (holding a PhD) from a Sub-Saharan African university have the opportunity to apply for Staff exchange fellowships.

Read more: Call for Scholarship Applications 2021 for Post Docs and Staff

DAAD Alumni are the 2020 African Region Champions of the WECC

Our DAAD Alumni (Langton Moyo, Melisa Dlamini, Evans Sakyi Boadu and Philip Nyasha Fungurai) are the 2020 African Region Champions of the World Evaluation Case Competition (WECC). In this annual competition targeting Young Emerging Evaluators (YEE) from across the globe, our Alumni were representing South Africa, through the University of the Western Cape, and competed against 16 teams from across the world including Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, India, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Yemen and the United States of America. The African countries that took part in the competition comprised of South Africa, Kenya, Morocco and Cameroon, with students from the International Relations Institute of Cameroon, Daystar University, Maseno University and National Forestry School of Engineering.

As part of the competition, they had to prepare a Program Evaluation Proposal for the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation project on ''How to curb the spread of Human Trafficking in Vietnam during the Covid-19 Pandemic'', targeting Sustainable Development Goal 5, 8 and 16.

Congratulations!

UWC Centres of Excellence training workshop on the new DigiFace digital teaching and learning platform

Ruth Knoblich, DAAD Lecturer in Development Research at UWC reports on the UWC Centres of Excellence training workshop in December 2020:

In the first week of December 2020, the two UWC DAAD Centres of Excellence – the South African-German Centre for Development Research SA-GER CDR and the South African German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice TRANSCRIM – took part in a training workshop on the use of the new DigiFace digital teaching and learning platform. Colleagues from Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, who are managing partners of the DigiFace project, organized and run the training workshop in a venue close to Cape Town.

Read more: UWC Centres of Excellence training workshop on the new DigiFace digital teaching and learning...