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- 2018 | Africa | Irit Eguavoen | Urban | Water
Twelve months – twelve books: My 2018 reading list on cities
ZEF researchers read hundreds of academic articles, books, reports and media every year in order to stay up to date about what is going on in their field of study, to collect information and contextualise their empirical data. For those among us who are interested in researching cities I particular – or even reading about…
It is official now: IPADS and ZEF on the move!
The cooperation on paper becomes real. With the recent signing of two Memoranda of Understanding between the University of Tokyo and the University of Bonn on the one hand and the MoU between ZEF and IPADS on the other, the “strategic international partnership” between the institutions in Japan and Germany has become official. This has…
- 2015 | Africa | Field research | Marwa Shumo | Researchers
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
They say “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. That is what this experience is all about. My colleagues here tell me that It didn’t take me so much time to settle in and that it doesn’t seem that I am missing out on anything I left behind. That is not true. Yes I do…
- 2019 | Capacity building | Climate Change | Europe | Global | Irit Eguavoen | Science Communication | Urban | ZEF/Bonn
Contribution to the 2nd Global Climate Strike in Bonn by “Scientists for Future” Climate action now! Because it is not enough to know.
Yesterday somebody told me on the bus that he was uncertain whether climate change was really that bad; he under the impression that scientist had not even succeeded in agreeing to the relevant numbers as yet. Fair enough! Instead of hiding behind model simulations and endless case studies we, the scientists need to do a better job getting the message across
- 2018 | BiomassWeb | Capacity building | Climate Change | Community outreach | Edible Insects | Edible Insects | Food Security | Global | Information | Marwa Shumo | Science Communication | STRIVE | Urban | ZEF/Bonn
Bonn Sciences Night/Bonner Wissenschaftsnacht
The 11th „Science Night“ of the University of Bonn took place at the Münsterplatz and the Central Building of the University of Bonn. Tailored to the common topic “Cycles”, there were exhibitions, presentations and performances by universities and research institutes of the local area “Bonn-Rhein Sieg”. The event that takes places every other year offers…
- 2018 | Capacity building | Community outreach | Conference | Edible Insects | Europe | Food Security | Global | Information | Marwa Shumo | Science Communication | Urban | ZEF/Bonn
Back in Berlin: International Green Week 2018
I woke up on the morning to the 14th of November 2017 to a very beautiful and delighting email from the wonderful Anne Borisch, a junior consultant working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (English: German Corporation for International Cooperation ) which is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides…
