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Dear reader,
The DAAD East Africa Newsletter June Edition is out! Please feel free to peruse through to get wind of the latest news, current calls, and their deadlines, as well as the upcoming web seminars. Have a great read!
The DAAD Nairobi Team
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| Portrait of the Month - DAAD Centres of Excellence |
| By establishing centers of excellence, the DAAD supports African universities in improving their educational quality and expanding their research capacities to enable the education of future decision-makers in Africa according to international standards. The DAAD’s Centres of African Excellence program aims to create internationally competitive centers on a sustainable basis, thereby contributing in a publicly visible way to improving the functioning of socially relevant sectors in African countries. We present to you three Centres of Excellence in the Portrait of the month of May: |
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| The DAAD Annual Report 2021 is out! |
The DAAD has granted academic and research funding to more than 134,900 Germans and foreigners in 2021, including European Union (EU) programmes, making it the world’s largest funding organisation of its kind. The DAAD Annual Report 2021 is out! This report provides information about the most important projects, current statistics and an overview of the many different tasks of the DAAD. You can download the report (German Version) here:
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| The DAAD Regional Offices Report 2021 is out! |
We are happy to draw your attention to the reports of the regional offices (including the regional office for Nairobi) for the year 2021! The 19 regional offices of the DAAD are part of a worldwide network abroad. These provide a complex picture of the political, economic, social and, in particular, higher education policy situation in the respective countries.
You can download the report (German version) here:
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| DAAD Nairobi Welcomes 21 New Ph.D. Scholars from East Africa to Germany |
| Twenty-one new DAAD-scholarship holders from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania have the chance to continue their academic careers with a full Ph.D. programme or a year of study in Germany. They have successfully applied to the DAAD, gone through a multi-stage selection process, and are now preparing for their departure. After two pandemic years, the DAAD was again able to personally present the certificates to the scholarship holders and bid them farewell! Read more about this event. |
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CALL FOR APPLICATION for DAAD Programmes |
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Call for ApplicationLeadership for Africa
“Leadership for Africa” offers scholarships for Master studies in Germany to qualified applicants in all fields of study except for medicine1, veterinary medicine, dentistry, law, the arts2 and architecture3. All “Leadership for Africa” scholarship holders benefit from a complementary training programme in good governance, civil society, and career development. The mandatory programme must be completed in addition to the regular studies. This year’s leadership for Africa call is already open (for Kenya, Ethiopia, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda) and the deadline for application is 30 June 2022. |
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Call for ApplicationHelmut-Schmidt-Programme
With the Helmut-Schmidt-Programme, the DAAD offers future leaders master's courses in disciplines that are of special relevance for the social, political, and economic development; prepares them in a practice-oriented course for responsible positions in or for their regions of origin, and contributes to establishing economic and social forms that are democratically oriented and designed to overcome social inequalities. |
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Call for Application Scholarships for Master students from Sub-Saharan Africa fleeing the war in Ukraine
The DAAD has launched a special programme for Sub-Saharan African Master students whose studies are interrupted due to the war against Ukraine to continue and complete their studies in their home country or region.The Scholarship programme for Master students from Sub-Saharan Africa fleeing the war against Ukraine is a subprogramme of the In-Country/In-Region Scholarship programme. It is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and managed by the German Academic Exchange Service. |
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Funding Opportunities and Conferences |
Funding Programmes for Start Ups: develoPPP
Is your start-up pursuing a high impact business model in a developing or emerging economy and has already successfully mastered the formation phase? Then find out now about the opportunities for growth funding through develoPPP Ventures. |
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CfP African Universities: 13-15 September 2022
Conference title: “Negotiating the Fabric of the African University – Beyond Locality and Universalism”
Venue: Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique Conference integrates workshops for doctoral students and early career researchers in the fields of comparative higher education, sociology of science, technology and innovation, research policy, and related disciplines or area studies.
Interested? Please submit a short abstract (300-500 words) through the online application form below.
Application deadline: 25th June, 2022.
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Call for PostDocs
GAIN22 Annual Conference and Talent Fair
Apply now for a Conference Scholarship for the GAIN22 Annual Conference and Talent Fair from September 2-4, 2022, in Bonn!
This year the GAIN22 conference is taking place in Germany for the first time and is primarily, but not exclusively, directed at postdocs from Germany, who are currently active in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
Application Deadline: July 1st, 2022 (Apply NOW: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis!).
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DAAD Offers for Information and Consultancy |
Physical Visiting Hours to begin in July
After closing our offices to physical visits during the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are pleased to inform you that every Wednesday, beginning 6 July 2022, the DAAD Nairobi Office will open its offices for face-to-face consultations from 10 am to 12 pm EAT. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
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Our web seminar calendar still stands, we will be offering our regular web seminars regularly as usual. Register to participate:
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Virtual Visiting Hours: Thursdays 10 am - 11 am EAT
Although we have re-opened our offices for face-to-face consultations, we will continue offering virtual web seminars on Thursdays, from 10 am to 11 am EAT.
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Freie Universität Berlin FUB-ContinuEd: New Online Certificate Courses start in Summer 2022
Join Freie Universität Berlin’s Continuing Education Program to further key competencies, like sustainability, leadership and problem-solving skills. Young professionals and life-long learners will gain practical knowledge to set their CVs apart. Please visit our website or contact info@continued.fu-berlin.de for more information.
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TUM School of Management
TUM Campus Heilbronn
of the Technical University of Munich
In Heilbronn, the renowned TUM offers study programs with a focus on the management of digital change, family businesses and IT. In addition to the management programs of the TUM School of Management, students can obtain a bachelor's degree in Information Engineering by the TUM Department of Informatics. Get to know TUM Campus Heilbronn!
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ESB Business School at Reutlingen University Study truly international in Germany
ESB Business School offers top-ranked undergraduate, graduate and executive programmes in business administration and business engineering (German and/or English), providing a strong network of partner companies and international partner universities all over the world.
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This newsletter has been prepared by:
DAAD Regional Office Nairobi, Madison Insurance House,
3rd floor, Upper Hill Close, P.O. Box 14050
00800 Nairobi
legally represented by Dr. Kai Sicks,
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V.,
Kennedyallee 50, 53175 Bonn
Tel.: +254 (733) 92 99 29
E-Mail: newsletter.nairobi@daad.de
Internet: https://www.daad.or.ke
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Head office:
Bonn (Germany), registered with the Bonn District Court, Commercial Register Court VR 2107
Editorial staff:
Beate Schindler-Kovats, Head of DAAD Branch Office Nairobi
Christine Wandolo, DAAD Nairobi
Liability Notice:
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