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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.

Within the framework of a so-called “Annual Seminar”, the “KAAD Association of Scholars from the Horn of Africa” (KASHA) meets regularly at various locations in Ethiopia. After the seminar in 2020 had to be cancelled due to corona, the Ethiopian KAAD community, accompanied by Dr. Marko Kuhn, Head of the Africa Department…

From 21st to 26th September 2021, 20 international students mingled with the helpers who support the farms and families affected by the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley (Rhineland-Palatinate). These were KAAD scholars from Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cambodia, Kenya, Lebanon, Palestine, Peru, the…

KAAD scholarship holders experience their host country first (and sometimes almost exclusively) in its urban areas – universities are rarely located in rural regions. Tourist insights, for example during hiking or excursions, are possible, but the actual life on site in the villages usually remains hidden. However, the…

The German Bishops’ Conference has appointed suffragan Dr. Dr. Anton Losinger from the Diocese of Augsburg as the new Bishop’s Commissioner for KAAD at its Autumn Plenary Assembly 2021.

After more than one year of forced break due to corona, it was a special pleasure for all participants to be finally able to hold a local KAAD meeting in presence again. A total of 18 scholarship holders and alumni from 13 nations studying and/or living in Berlin, Potsdam, Cottbus and Frankfurt (Oder) came together in…

KAAD scholars not only hail from from different cultures and religions, but also have different kinds of “religiosity” as their background. The German term “Frömmigkeit” (“piety”) tries to catch what is meant when a concrete religious practice arises between religious attitude and teaching. This often includes cultural…

KAAD publishes its Annual Report 2020