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AFAS Stakeholder Workshop – Nairobi 2022
On 22 and 23 November 2022, our AFAS Stakeholder Workshop was held at the Mövenpick Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop was titled “Co-designing Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces (SPPIs) to Support Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Africa’s Savanna Regions”
Drawing on beyond-classroom observations from the AFAS exchange visit to Germany
AFAS staff and students The African Climate and Environment Centre – Future African Savannas (AFAS) is one of the Global climate and environment centers of
DAAD Open Scholarship Calls
Deadline: December 9, 2022 DAAD has published several calls for in-country/in-region scholarships in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Scholarships are offered for several Master and PhD Programmes
AFAS @ the DAAD Conference “International Scientific Cooperation for the World of Tomorrow: Global Centres for Health and Climate”
From the 6th to 7th of September 2022, AFAS staff members and students attended the exciting DAAD Conference “International Scientific Cooperation for the World of Tomorrow: Global Centres for Health and Climate” in Berlin, Germany.
Meet the students
Ami Léonie Kanga
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire
Anita Myriam Emma Kouassi
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire
Claire Anulisa Adhiambo
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Focus
About us
The African Climate and Environment Center – Future African Savannas (AFAS) commenced in 2021 and is one of the DAAD Global Centres for Climate and Environment. AFAS is a consortium between two African and two German universities and strives for interdisciplinary and international exchange beyond academia by working on the science-policy-practice interface. The thematic focus of the center is nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and biodiversity loss in African savannas.
Our mission
The project initiative stems from the urgent need to develop sound and robust evidence-based and science-backed strategies to preserve and protect the fragile environments of the West and East African savannas against the combined threats of extensive and diverse land use and rapid climate change. AFAS aims to train young African scholars in the interdisciplinary field of climate change adaptation and biodiversity and to transfer scientific findings into practice, while at the same time reducing the climate and environmental footprint of education, research and international cooperation. The project specifically focuses on the potential of nature-based solutions and of cooperation on the science-policy-practice interface.
Global Centres for Climate and Environment as well as for Health and Pandemic Prevention
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