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.
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)…
Upcoming: AFAS Summer School 2024 August 26, 2024 – September 6, 2024 Bonn, Cologne Students from the first Master cohort during the Summer School in
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.
AFAS @ the European Conference on African Studies “African Futures” in Cologne From the 31st of May to the 3rd of June 2023, the ninth
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.
Online-Lecture series: Interactions between Humans and Wildlife Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers 24th – 26th of October 2023 Human life and wildlife converge steadily,
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”
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.
We are happy to welcome our international students to the AFAS Summer School 2022, jointly hosted by ZEF Bonn and GSSC Cologne in Germany!
The Public Lecture Series is a shared cooperation by AFAS and the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) of the University of Cologne. It is arranged
On May 13 2022, AFAS co-organized a side-event on the 15th UNCCD Conference of Parties in Abidjan. Together with the CABES and LANUSYNCON programmes, we
30 November 2021 – 2 December 2021 The first of three planned train-the-trainer workshops was held virtually over the course of 3 days at the
The four PIs of AFAS presented our project and plans during the official online kickoff event of the DAAD Global Climate and Environment Centers, where
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