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Group
| Aktuelles, Seminare

Local KAAD meeting in Berlin on 9.7.2021

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…


Mosaik
| Aktuelles, Seminare

„Religion und Piety in an Intercultural Perspective“ – KAAD Online-Seminar 13. – 14.05.2021

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…


Annual Report 2020
| Aktuelles

Annual Report 2020

KAAD publishes its Annual Report 2020


Newsletter 24
| Newsletter, Aktuelles

Newsletter No. 24

Here you will find current news from KAAD!


Webinar Cultural Heritage
| Aktuelles, Seminare, Veranstaltungen

“Between Crisis and Hope: Reconstructing Cultural Heritage in the Middle East” Webseminar 10.12.2020

The material cultural heritage in the countries of the Middle East is exposed to a constant danger from crises and wars. Many of our scholarship holders, alumni and partners are involved in the care, preservation or reconstruction of architectural monuments in their fields of study or in their professions.


Group
| Afrika, Aktuelles, Seminare, Veranstaltungen

“African Identity: Home, Belonging and Togetherness” – KAAD Africa Seminar in Weingarten, 30.11. – 03.12.2020

The question of identity(ies) and their meaning is of great importance for KAAD and its world-wide community. This time the topic was discussed with a focus on Africa and under the impression of the worrying events in Ethiopia (“Tigray conflict”). The particular danger of identity issues lies in tendencies of…


Programm
| Nahost, Seminare

KAAD Networking Meeting Syria (Web Seminar)

KAAD has been supporting students from Syria in their studies in Germany for 60 years – and since there have been defined partner countries in KAAD, a special focus of support and exchange has been on Syria. However, the situation since 2011 has presented our Syrian networks with a special challenge: KAAD alumni in Syria…


KAAD
| Seminare

KAAD’s Introductory Seminar as online event “KAAD as an intercultural and global church community”, November 20, 2020

The Introductory Seminar – originally planned in Haus Venusberg for all newly arrived scholars and as small replacement for the, in 2020, cancelled Annual Convention – could not take place as a face-to-face event due to the corona pandemic. In order to offer particularly the new scholars an opportunity to get to know…


Poster
| Asien, Aktuelles, Seminare

„The Global Covid-19 Pandemic: Mental Health Insights from Palestine” – International Web Seminar – October 16th, 2020

On the occasion of the World Mental Health Day on October, 10th 2020, the KAAD Alumni Association in Palestine and the KAAD office in Bonn organised a web seminar dealing with the current pandemic’s impact on mental health in Palestine.


Plenum
| Osteuropa, Aktuelles, Seminare

Impact of Russian Primacy and Striving for Power on Central and Eastern European Countries

From 4th to 7th September 2020, 13 KAAD scholars and the Albertus Magnus Scholarship Programme from five different countries were able to meet at the „Alten Feuerwache“ in Berlin to take part in the Eastern European regional seminar of KAAD. Due to the restrictions imposed by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, only a limited…