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From 9 to 12 October, 25 KAAD scholarship holders met at the Alte Feuerwache Berlin to discuss "Current Challenges for Ethnic Minorities in Asia". Most of the participants came from Asia. However, the group was also enriched by scholarship holders from Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

In our alumni brochure, we present former scholarship holders who are at different points in their careers.

Every year, the "Rome trip" takes KAAD scholarship holders to the sources of the Christian faith and to the centre of the Global Church. Prayers and church services in the catacombs, in Santa Sabina and with the community of Sant' Egidio as well as participation in the audience of Pope Francis are therefore part of the…

Germany is characterised by many contrasts, both in its history and in the present. To explore these, 18 of our scholars travelled to Thuringia from 7 to 11 August 2023 together with our spiritual advisors Fr Professor Thomas Eggensperger OP and Fr Professor Ulrich Engel OP.

The largest KAAD seminar within the Africa Department brings together current and former scholars from three East African countries every year.

From 10 to 11 July 2023, the head of the Africa Department, Dr Marko Kuhn, together with two leaders of the Ethiopian KAAD network KASHA (KAAD Association of Scholars at the Horn of Africa) visited the Eparchy of Adigrat in northern Ethiopia.

This year's seminar of the KASHA (KAAD Association of Scholars from the Horn of Africa) took place in Ethiopia from 6th to 9th of July. The focus was on the discussion about the relationship between ecology and economy with the topic: “Ecology and Economy: Contrastive or Connected? Perspectives on Production, Environment…

Identity and the question of the cultural manifestations of collective identities were the topics of the seminar which was attended by 19 of our scholarship holders from 27 to 30 June 2023 in Augsburg.

Pope Francis attaches great importance to the Church listening to "the people of God" all over the world and gaining strength for renewal from this practice. It was also against this background that 23 scholarship holders (two of them representatives of the Albertus Magnus scholarship programme) reflected on and…