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This virtual KAAD seminar focused on the question of what education can contribute to common orientation and responsible action in times of global upheaval.

How do international doctoral candidates experience the research landscape in Germany? Which structures support, which challenge and which relationships characterize academic work?

Dr Mirjam Rossa, Head of the Latin America Department at KAAD, intensified the exchange with universities and alumni in Argentina and Uruguay in a spirit of shared responsibility.

On the occasion of her birthday, we remember Dr Maria Alberta Lücker, who laid the foundation for KAAD with courage and foresight.

At the heart of the universal church, our scholars encountered the history of faith – and each other.

At the seminar of the East African KAAD Alumni Association in July 2025 in Mwanza, Tanzania, economic, legal and ecological interdependencies in the region were analyzed and discussed.

Fundamental questions dominated the KAAD Spiritual Days, which took place in July at the Benedictine monastery in Beuron: Who can I trust? What sustains me when certainties disappear? Where is my place in a world that seems to be falling apart at the seams?

From July 17 to 20, 2025, the seminar of the Ghanaian KAAD network KASWA took place at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) under the title "Recycling – Circular Economy for a Sustainable Future in Ghana". It was part of a multi-day networking trip by Dr Marko Kuhn, which also included talks…

In July 2025, Professor Klaus Fleischer, a long-standing member of the KAAD Academic Council, passed away at the age of 86.

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