News
June 17, 2011.
is the topic that experts from research, business and non-profit organizations will work on during an international conference at ZEF from June 20-22. It is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation.
» moreJune 07, 2011.
Watch today’s lecture on “Coping with complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity: New approaches towards risk governance” by Prof. Dr. Ortwin Renn via live stream!
If you are not able to attend the lecture in Bonn, you can watch it simultaneously on the Internet.
The lecture is online from 5.15 p.m. onwards.
» moreMay 30, 2011.
Bonn, May 30, 2011. The new international Campus of the Right Livelihood Award in Bonn, which is based at ZEF, has been inaugurated officially. Bonns Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch and the Rector of the University of Bonn, Jürgen Fohrmann welcomed the audience.
» moreMay 09, 2011.
ZEF-alumnus Sayan Chakrabarty of Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet in Bangladesh has been honored with the award for his fundamental research on child labor.
» moreApril 15, 2011.
This workshop on global environmental change and water-related diseases in Central Asia brings together risk managers from different countries, organizations and disciplines to develop a collaborative research and capacity building program on the issue. Read the daily report!
» moreApril 13, 2011.
The research project and competence network Crossroads Asia officially started with a large opening ceremony in the premises of the Parliamentary Association in Berlin on April 7, 2011. About 150 scientists, politicians, journalists and media representatives attended.
» moreApril 07, 2011.
The research program on food security and rural development in developing countries, supported by the Foundation fiat panis via its “Dr. Hermann Eiselen PhD Grant” has started with a series of joint workshops for doctoral students.
» moreMarch 22, 2011.
S. Nana Ato Arthur, a ZEF doctoral student from Ghana, has been a mayor and a minister for years in the same region in Ghana where he conducted his field research recently. Here, on the ZEF homepage, Nana shares his experiences with us and relates on how he managed to conduct research as a former mayor and a current ZEF student.
» moreMarch 02, 2011.
ZEF is involved in organizing this year's Tropentag, taking place in Bonn, October 5-7 2011. The call for papers and the first conference information is now published on www.tropentag.de.
» moreFebruary 17, 2011.
Read the latest edition of our "ZEF news" and learn more about: dryland afforestation for climate change mitigation, options for improving water use efficiency in South Africa, participatory forest management in the Kakamega Forest in Kenya, the social impact of dam building projects in Ethiopia as well as climate change and the media in West Africa.
» moreFebruary 11, 2011.
ZEF-Director Prof. Dr. Solvay Gerke represented ZEF at the network meeting of the DAAD Centres of African Excellence taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, at the end of January, 2011.
» moreFebruary 09, 2011.
A new grant, made available by the Foundation fiat panis in Ulm, Germany, provides doctoral students of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn and of the Food Security Center at the University of Hohenheim with funds amounting to 250 thousand Euros per annum for research on food security and rural development in developing countries.
» moreFebruary 02, 2011.
Doing research in interdisciplinary teams and in cooperation with local stakeholders is an experience in implementation-oriented research that a group of scientists went through in the ZEF/UNESCO Project in Uzbekistan. Read the article on our website about how you can 'follow-the-innovation' and even spread it.
» moreFebruary 02, 2011.
ZEF is going to be a major partner in the Crossroads Asia competence network, to be funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from 2011 to 2014. Crossroads Asia will focus on the area from eastern Iran to western China and from the Aral Sea to northern India.
» moreFebruary 01, 2011.
In the 2010 ‘To Go To Think Tanks’ ranking, ZEF is - for the second year in a row - among the top 5% of all worldwide evaluated Think Tanks (more than 6,000 in 120 countries). ZEF holds position 5 among the Top 10 of Science and Technology Think Tanks and position 14 among the Best University affiliated Think Tank.
» moreFebruary 01, 2011.
An ‘international Consortium of Universities for the Study of Biodiversity
and the Environment’ (iCUBE) was inaugurated in Darussalem, Brunei, on January 29, 2011 by the Minister for Development of Brunei.
» moreJanuary 19, 2011.
Joy Kiiru, ZEF alumna from Kenya, won this year’s “Medal for Research on Development” in the category “Innovative Sources of Development Finances”. The prize was awarded by the Global Development Network (GDN) at its 12th Annual Global Development Conference taking place in Bogotá, Colombia, from January 13-15, 2011.
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