DAAD Higher Education Forum on Capacity Building and Development Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has invited seventy eight (78) former DAAD scholars from Sub-Saharan Africa to Germany to participate in three summerschools at
the University of Magdeburg,
Summer school for African Networks in the field of Technology and Development
the University of Bochum,
Summer school on Peace and Development
the University of Giessen,
At the end the participants of the three summer schools come together for a Higher Education Forum on Capacity Building and Development Research in Subsahran Africa at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn.
The DAAD Higher Education Forum on Capacity Building and Development Research in Sub-Saharan Africa, organized by ZEF aims to discuss the notion of 'development' by looking at the theory and practice of development assistance, particularly German development assistance. Thirty or forty years of development aid/collaboration/assistance have not been able to avoid the dismal situation many people in the 'developing world' face today. The need to have the type of Millennium Development Goals as we now have testifies to this. Why is it that development assistance, with so many laudable objectives, with so much expertise invested in it, with so much money spent on it, does not deliver what it is expected to deliver? Or is this not the right way to phrase the problem? How has this issue been addressed in the German context by the different actors involved in development assistance?
The four days are meant to be a lively exchange between 78 DAAD alumni from Sub-Saharan Africa and 35 ZEF PhD students from 20 countries around the world and the speakers from BMZ, DAAD, GTZ, DIE-GDI and ZEF. The objective is that participants develop their own views on development assistance and articulate these in discussions.
is an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented institute. By covering three main research areas, which are interrelated through interdisciplinary research projects, ZEF offers a broad and integrated perspective on development. ZEF works on crosscutting themes of central importance for the developing world, since development is rarely constrained by a single problem within a single discipline. The research programs build on the methods and analytical styles of the disciplinary research areas and link and integrate knowledge and capacities from different ZEF's departments. ZEF's major three research areas are: Political and Cultural Change; Economic and Technological Change; Ecology and Natural Resources Management.
ZEF's main strategic goals are to increase interdisciplinary cooperation and to achieve greater thematic coherence by way of crosscutting projects. To maintain research quality, guiding criteria for ZEF's research are research excellence, strategic relevance, thematic coherence, and efficiency. In order to maximize its impact, ZEF maintains an ongoing dialogue with representatives from politics, business, and NGOs through national and international conferences and workshops. ZEF attaches high importance to the scientific training and capacity building, in particular, of up-and-coming researchers from developing and transforming economies. Since 1999, ZEF maintains the three years International Doctoral Studies Program.
Coordinator
Dr. Günther Manske,
Walter-Flex-Str. 3,
53113 Bonn.
Tel: +49 228 / 73-17 94
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