News From the Department

Accompanied by the Head of the Latin America Department, Dr. Thomas Krüggeler, and welcomed by numerous alumni, KAAD President P. Dr. Hans Langendörfer SJ visited Guatemala, KAAD's focus country in Central America, from 18 to 25 October 2022. In addition to numerous conversations at our partner university Rafael Landívar…

The Alumni Seminar („Pueblos Indígenas en Colombia: Las oportunidades de un diálogo intercultural en tiempos de transformación socio-ecológica), which took place from 13 to 15 October at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, dealt with different approaches and perspectives on socio-ecological transformation, including…

The seminar, which was designed as a hybrid event, was attended on site by 17 KAAD alumni and scholarship holders and about ten guests from institutions and programs affiliated with KAAD (Universidad Católica de Santa Fe, Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika-Deutschland, Diplomatura Superior de Ecolologia Integral). Numerous…

At the opening evening of the seminar, Dr. Krüggeler was finally able to personally present the 2020 award winner of the KAAD Foundation Peter Hünermann, Dr. Lauro Sitzmann Penno, his certificate, for which the medical doctor from Paraguay had been waiting for more than a year.