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Call for applications for small Alumni events in East Africa 2025

Call for applications for small Alumni events in East Africa 2025

DAAD invites former DAAD scholarship holders from East Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia) who are planning small Alumni events scheduled between April and October 2025 to submit their applications for funding.

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Germany is number 2 worldwide for international academics and researchers

Germany is number 2 worldwide for international academics and researchers

Germany is the second most important host country for international academics and researchers after the USA, according to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the publication "Wissenschaft weltoffen" published today. Over 75,000 researchers from all over the world worked in Germany. In addition, 380,000 international students were enrolled at German universities - a new record.

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Internationalisation of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS.International)

Internationalisation of Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS.International)

Universities of applied sciences are highly regarded in Germany and around the world, especially for their practical orientation. Many of these universities wish to enhance their international standing even further. To this end, the DAAD is helping students and researchers at universities of applied sciences carry out study and research visits abroad. It is also supporting universities in their efforts to establish cooperation projects with international partners.

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Networking Forum „EU-Higher Education Cooperation between Germany and Eastern Africa”

‘People to people contacts and networks are at the heart of Erasmus+,’ said the EU Ambassador to Kenya, Henriette Geiger, at the opening of the Erasmus+ Networking Forum “EU-Higher Education Cooperation between Germany and Eastern Africa” on 12 September in Nairobi, Kenya. This is precisely what the 120 or so university representatives from East Africa and Germany who took part in the two-day conference from 12-13 September 2024 have implemented in concrete terms. Many new contacts have been made and project ideas have been exchanged with the aim of establishing new partnerships and launching joint cooperation projects.

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Innovating Education: How Germany’s oldest Distance Learning University makes it work

Innovating Education: How Germany’s oldest Distance Learning University makes it work

In September, the DAAD Regional Office in Nairobi hosted Dr. Rahel Hutgens, Director of the International Office at the FernUniversität in Hagen, for a presentation and dinner with representatives from the Kenyan university sector and beyond. Dr. Hutgens shared insights on the Evolution and Impact of the FernUniversität’s Distance Learning Model. The Distance Learning University in Hagen is Germany’s first and oldest public institution offering studies from the comfort of their students’ homes since 1975. Her talk prompted a lively discussion among almost 40 attendees.

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The English Version of the DAAD Annual Report is now available!

The Annual Report provides information on the main areas of action, key figures and activities of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

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DAAD Global Centres

Nature-Based Solutions for Business in the African Savannas

Upon the invitation of African Climate and Environment Center–Future African Savannas (AFAS), one of the DAAD Global Centres for Climate and Environment hosted at the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA), University of Nairobi, the DAAD participated at a breakfast meeting focussed on Nature-based Solutions for Business.

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DIES Programmes

UNILEAD Eastern Africa 2024: “Strengthening University Leadership and Management”

For two weeks in June 2024, twenty-four middle-level university leaders and managers from different universities in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia participated in UNILEAD Eastern Africa 2024  and were equipped with essential skills and knowledge to enhance their institutions' operations and governance.  The training themed “Strengthening University Leadership and Management” was hosted by Rongo University in partnership with Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, and was the first phase of training, made up of three modules.

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DIES NMT Kenya Hosts Intriguing Workshop on Online Learning in an International Context

DIES NMT Kenya organized the 2nd training workshop, “The Role of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and Virtual Exchanges in promoting Internationalization at Home in Higher Academic Institutions in Kenya”, in June.

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Call for Application

The Call for Application for the Erasmus+ Networking Forum EU-Higher Education Cooperation between Germany and Eastern-Africa is out!

The Erasmus+ National Agency for Higher Education at DAAD and the DAAD Regional Office in Nairobi invite higher education representatives from Germany, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan to take part in Erasmus+ Networking Forum in Nairobi. The application for African higher education representatives is now open!

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