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The plans for this conference have been on since 2020, but because of the pandemic situation in Zimbabwe and elsewhere, it could not take place 2020, neither in 2021. From July 21 to 24, 2022, finally, 85 participants met at the venue, Arrupe Jesuit University (AJU) in Harare. Participants from the staff and students of…

From 7 to 10 June 2022, 13 KAAD scholarship holders and one Cusanuswerk scholar met in Bonn to discuss the topic "Space and Sustainability: On the Compatibility of Space Research and Social-Ecological Transformation" under the direction of Dr. Thomas Krüggeler. Fr. Prof. Dr. Thomas Eggensperger accompanied the group…

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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.

When people from different continents, countries and creeds come together to learn new things and pray, it becomes an interesting and valuable experience. Even the COVID pandemic, which has left its mark on the soul of each of us, could not affect this experience.

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.