| Newsletter DAAD East Africa • 12/2022 |
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Dear DAAD partners, alumni, friends, and scholars,
As the year 2022 ends, we would like to send you season‘s greetings, with many thanks for the good cooperation and active exchange this year. In 2022, the DAAD Regional Office Nairobi carried out its work in almost its usual form, and some new partnerships and initiatives were launched: The new host institutions from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania for the In-Country / In-Region Scholarship Programme were selected and announced, and they will be hosting Masters and Ph.D. scholars for the following three years.
The DAAD signed a new memorandum of understanding with the Inter-University Council of East Africa (IUCEA). The Leadership for Africa Programme was successfully advertised for the third time and attracted almost 800 applicants. Events with presence could be held again, such as participation in European education fairs in Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda, dinner talks, Research-in-Germany events, network meetings, personal meetings, information days, and visiting hours on studying and researching in Germany.
Business trips within the region to places like Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kampala, and Kigali, as well as to universities like Taita Taveta, DeKUT, Makerere, Moi, and Embu, were also possible. We are indeed grateful that you were part of us this year and look forward to an even more productive and fruitful 2023. Till then, we wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year!
Director DAAD Regional Office Nairobi
Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, South-Sudan, Ethiopia
and the entire DAAD Nairobi Team
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The new Ambassador for Kenya, Sebastian Groth, visited the DAAD Regional Office in Nairobi on November 16, 2022, and got insights into the DAAD’s work, tasks, and premises.
Ambassador Groth started his diplomatic career as a cultural attaché in Kenya twenty years ago. He knows the area well and talked to the staff at the regional office about his thoughts and experiences.
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The European Commission and the African Union Commission hosted a stakeholder dialogue on the AU-EU Innovation Agenda in Nairobi on November 23 and 24, 2022. The event was the culmination of a stakeholder dialogue launched in February this year, which aimed to gather feedback and input from stakeholders and organisations on the draft AU-EU Innovation Agenda. Stakeholder dialogues drive the Africa-EU Partnership between African and European counterparts at various levels. It culminates in the AU-EU Summits, held every three years, to set the priorities for the following years.
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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) will receive around 31 million euros more in basic funding for the coming year than the original draft budget. The budget increase is the result of last week's adjustment meeting of the budget committee for the federal budget.
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From November 12 to November 20, 2022, a delegation of the Parliamentary Group on Eastern Africa of the German Bundestag, led by the Chairperson, Kordula Schulz-Asche (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), visited schools, universities, and projects in Kenya. The visit focused on international exchange and the partnership between Germany and Kenya. We are pleased that the members of parliament Manfred Todtenhausen (FDP), Erwin Rüddel (CDU/CSU), Steffen Janich (AfD), and Cornelia Möhring (DIE LINKE) also sought talks with DAAD funding recipients, alumni and partners in Kenya.
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DAAD welcomes the position paper concerning the immigration of skilled workers
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International exchange students are increasingly important in recruiting qualified employees in Germany. Therefore the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) welcomes the position paper concerning the new Skilled Immigration Act, which the Federal Government passed on 30 November 2022.
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CALL for APPLICATION for DAAD Programmes |
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Call for Application
More DAAD funding for the academic year 2023/2024
We are pleased to inform you that applications to the following programmes have now been reopened:
* Research fellowships - Short-term fellowships
* Research stays
* Working stays for artistic subjects and architecture
* Re-invitations
Please key in your country of origin to see if your country is eligible:
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Call for Proposals
The Erasmus+ Call for Proposals is out; Deadlines fast approaching!
The European Commission launched the call for proposals under the Erasmus+ call for 2023. This call for proposals covers the following actions of the Erasmus+ Programme:
Key Action 1 - Learning mobility of individuals
Key Action 2 - Cooperation among organisations and institutions
Key Action 3 - Support to policy development and cooperation
Jean Monnet actions are also included. Read more for application details and deadlines below.
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Call for Proposals
Horizon Europe calls for proposal: Deadlines soon!
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation.
It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.With calls for proposals, the Commission selects, on a competitive basis, organisations or natural persons to implement projects co- financed by EU because these projects contribute to EU policy aims.
Here you will find the open and upcoming calls for proposal under Horizon Europe.
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CALL for APPLICATION from OTHER ORGANISATIONS |
Call for Application
The current round of applications for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s International Climate Protection Fellowship is open until 1 February 2023. The foundation is seeking young leaders and postdocs from non-European emerging economies and developing countries who want to go to Germany for up to 24 months to work together with a German host on a project they have chosen themselves.
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DAAD OFFERS for INFORMATION AND CONSULTANCY |
We continue to offer our bi-weekly web seminars. The last web seminar for the year, a University presentation by StU Hildesheim, will take place on 14 December 2022.
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The research and innovation community platform: Horizon Europe Info Days |
Are you willing to find out more about the funding opportunities offered in the different Horizon Cluster Areas?
Horizon Europe has organized a series of online info days. Click on the event you are interested in to participate. |
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Closing Dates December 2022 - January 2023 |
The DAAD Nairobi Office remains closed for the Christmas season, from 26th December 2022 to 2nd January 2023, resuming on 3rd January 2023. |
Face to Face Consultations |
Our offices are open for face-to-face consultations every Wednesday from 10 am to 12 pm EAT. We are located at Madison Insurance House 3rd Floor, Upper Hill Close, Community Area. Please wear your masks when you come. * Please note that this coming Wednesday, 14 December 2022, we will not be hosting any face to face visiting hour.
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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.
Please note that for 2022, the last virtual visiting hour will take place on 15 December 2022.
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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
Fax: +49 228 882-444
E-Mail: newsletter.nairobi@daad.de
Internet: https://www.daad-kenya.org |
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Editorial staff:
Beate Schindler-Kovats, Head of DAAD Branch Office Nairobi
Christine Wandolo, DAAD Nairobi
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