This blog post takes you to the Konso Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Ethiopia. When we started our trip to visit our partner university in Dilla, southern Ethiopia, on July 23, 2024, we had no idea that the largest landslide ever recorded in Ethiopia had just taken place just a few kilometers…
ZEF’s Doctoral Studies Support Program ran a second edition of its Traveling School at the National University of Colombia’s La Paz Campus. ZEF’s German-Colombian Doctoral Studies Support Program (DSSP) and the West African Center for Sustainable Rural Transformation (WAC-SRT) recently concluded the second edition of the DSSP Traveling School, solidifying their collaborative efforts with the…
A delegation of the bilateral ZEF-led project Doctoral Studies Support Program (DSSP) paid a visit to their partners in Argentina from March 18-25, 2024. DSSP is based at ZEF and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of their SDG Graduate School Program. First stop was the conference “The challenges of the…
On November 2, 2023 the One Health and Urban Transformation Graduate School at ZEF organized a (hybrid) One Health Research Symposium in commemoration of the annual World One Health Day (celebrated on November 3). This year’s symposium centered on “Blue Health,” emphasizing the significance of urban water systems and their impact on health and well-being….
The land she grows: from land access to changing practices for more gender justice. This is the second part about the event Women’s Land Rights and Gender Transformative Practices organized by the ZEF Gender Group and the Feminist Land Platform with panelists from Africa, Asia and Latin America in June 2023. This blog takes stock…
The ZEF-Gender Group and the Feminist Land Platform As scholars, we often become part of activist movements within the realms of high-level education. This can be through, for example, writing evidence-based articles show-casing social-economic or environmental injustices, signing protest letters, or, indeed, blogs. But what about talking and discussing with activists about how we could…
Part 3: Berlin excursion: Museum stop (July 21) Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF. From July 18-22, the five doctoral researchers María Camila Montalvo, Diego Quijano, Maria Marcela Lozano, Pablo González and Michael Weidemann, accompanied by ZEF-researchers Carolina Tóbon…
Part 2: Berlin excursion. Berlin stops 1-4 Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF. Impressions, insights and take-aways From July 18-22, the five doctoral researchers María Camila Montalvo Senior, Diego Quijano, Maria Marcela Lozano, Pablo González and Michael Weidemann, accompanied…
Part 1: Impressions from our stay in Bonn Five doctoral researchers from the Doctoral Studies Support Program reflect on their 2023 Summer School in Germany (June-July 2023) organized by ZEF. At ZEF, the five researchers, all based in South America, namely María Camila Montalvo Senior, Diego Quijano, Maria Marcela Lozano, Pablo González and Michael Weidemann,…
BLOG 5-6. June 23-24, 2023. Returning to and wrapping up in Tokyo. The faculty and students of ZEF (University of Bonn), IPADS and GSSP-GLI (both institutes are part of the University of Tokyo, more info below*) participating in this excursion together represented 17 nationalities. As our excursion in Japan draws to a close, we gathered…
