Events Overview
Events

AFAS Knowledge Exchange, Engagement & Dissemination Week 2025: Strengthening Collaborative Research in Nairobi

The AFAS Knowledge Exchange, Engagement & Dissemination week took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 13–17 October 2025. During this week, the AFAS team from the University of Cologne, the University of Bonn, and Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny convened at the University of Nairobi (UoN). The event provided an exciting platform for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and engagement among partners, fellows, and stakeholders.

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Call for Applications -AFAS Master’s Programme (2026 Intake)

The African Climate and Environment Centre – Future African Savannas (AFAS) is now accepting applications for fully funded Master’s fellowships!

AFAS supports highly motivated graduates who are interested in addressing climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development in African savannas through Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and science–policy–practice interfaces.

🎓 18 fully funded fellowships available
📍 Study locations:
University of Nairobi (Kenya)
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Côte d’Ivoire)
🔎 Thematic focus areas: Water | Agriculture | Energy | One Health | Biodiversity

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Open Postdoctoral and PhD Opportunities -African Climate and Environment Centre – Future African Savannas (AFAS)

The African Climate and Environment Centre – Future African Savannas (AFAS) invites applications for two (2) Postdoctoral Researcher positions and one (1) PhD position hosted at our partner institutions in East and West Africa.

AFAS is a DAAD-funded Centre of Excellence working across African and European universities to generate evidence-based solutions for climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable management of African savanna ecosystems.

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AFAS Summer School 2024

The AFAS Summer School convened from the 26th of August to the 6th of September, bringing together 23 AFAS-fellows from East and West Africa along with 3 fellows from Colombia and South Africa from another DAAD Global Center, the Transnational Centre for Just Transitions in Energy, Climate & Sustainability (TRAJECTS)…

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Workshops

Exploring Profitable Nature-Based Solutions: AFAS Stakeholder Workshops 2023 in Abidjan and Nairobi

The AFAS team gathered for the second edition of stakeholder workshops on November 28 at the Hôtel Famille Mondiale in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and on December 14 at the Mövenpick Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshops had the theme “Achieving Profitable Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity Conservation.” They aimed to bring together stakeholders from science, policy, and practice to explore avenues for making Nature-based Solutions (NbS) not only profitable but also financially sustainable.

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Interdisciplinary workshop on Interactions between Humans and Wildlife

Human life and wildlife converge steadily, resulting, among others, in new pathogen spillovers. The drivers for increasing human-animal interactions and its resultant pathogen spillovers are climate change, hunting, trading animals, and keeping animals as livestock or pets. Land use changes lead to an increasing encroachment of agriculture, including crop cultivation, in forests, savannas, and other biodiverse natural habitats. To prevent pathogen spillovers – or, at least, be prepared for future spillovers – activities of both humans and wildlife have to be considered.

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Workshops

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”

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