Roundtable Africa: Potentials, challenges and opportunities of education and research partnerships

Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 17:00-19:00 Triangel Transfer | Kultur | Raum - Kaiserstraße 93 / Kronenplatz – Raum: Space

Africa is at the beginning of an education and science revolution that can be accelerated through international cooperation. How strong partnerships between Germany and Africa can effectively support this transformation is the focus of our discussion today.

Our roundtable offers experts a unique platform to discuss the immense potential, challenges, and opportunities for building and deepening cooperation. They will give insights into new models for collaboration in the research and education sector which have the goal to support effective and competency-oriented growth of the African education and research sector.

Panellists are:

  • Gudrun Chazotte (Head of Section Scholarship Programmes Africa-ST32, DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service)
  • Dr. Annika Hampel (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, former Head of the Africa Centre, Uni Freiburg)
  • Dr. Zegeye Mamo (Head of Emerging Cities Lab-Addis Ababa – a collaborative research lab between EiABC-AAU and Bauhaus University, Germany)
  • Dr. Chris Funk (Director Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara)
  • Prof. Dr. Ch. Borgemeister (Director of the Center for Development Research-ZEF)

Moderation: Dr. Joerg Helmschrot (Project Coordinator Fast2Africa and WASANet, KIT, Windhoek, Namibia)

 

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This event is part of the eventgroup International Days 2025