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KASSA-Seminar „Digital Transformation and AI: Beyond Efficiency Gains, What Is Our Human Purpose?”

From January 23rd to 29th, 2024, the head of the KAAD Africa Department, Dr Marko Kuhn, visited our focus country Zimbabwe, to take part in the seminar of the KAAD Association of Scholars from Southern Africa and to meet our Partner Committee.


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Newsletter No. 29

Here you will find current news from KAAD!


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KAAD seminar: "Rethinking masculinity"

From 11 to 14 December, KAAD organized a unique seminar under the direction of Dr Anselm Feldmann: the representatives of our Education Commission had decided that this event was exclusively for men.


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KAAD-Seminar: „Decolonizing and Contextualizing Education in African Countries“

The colonial era dates back sixty years in most African countries but has powerful repercussions to date not only on infrastructure and economic structures but also in people's minds.


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Visit to our partner country Ghana

From 20th to 29th of November, Miriam Rossmerkel, KAAD Africa Department Officer, travelled to Ghana, where, in addition to network meetings in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, the main destination of the trip was the annual seminar of the KAAD Association of Scholars in West Africa (KASWA).


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Reintegration workshop in virtual space

On 27 and 28 November, fifty current and former KAAD scholarship holders discussed the issues of return to and reintegration in their home country after their period of study in Germany.


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Meetings of KAAD network in Guatemala

The focus of the trip of our Head of the Latin America Department, Dr Thomas Krüggeler, was his attendance at an event on the challenges of socio-educational work in Guatemala and Central America.


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KAAD seminar: "Automation and artificial intelligence as a challenge and an opportunity"

On 10 November 2023, 19 scholarship holders explored the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence under the direction of Markus Leimbach.


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Award of the Hermann Weber Scholarship 2023

In 2023, KAAD awards the Hermann Weber Scholarship donated by alumnus Helmuth Gallego to Willis Awandu from Kenya, who is doing his doctorate in the field of water technology at the University of Darmstadt.


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Seminar abroad in Bogor, Indonesia, "Ibu Kota Nusantara: The future most modern and green capital of the world?"

In cooperation with our KAAD alumni in Indonesia and the KMKI alumni organisation KONTAK, a seminar was organised in Bogor, Indonesia, from 20 to 22 October 2023. The seminar focused on the plans for the new capital of Indonesia, Ibu Kota Nusantara.


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