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DAAD Ghana Newsletter, June 2019

For us at the DAAD, connecting people to facilitate new networks and consolidate existing ones is one of our main tasks.

DAAD Regional meeting in Africa

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, June 2019

Under the heading “Africa in Transition – changing (with) the German language” 26 DAAD lecturers from countries in Easter, Southern, Western, and Central Africa as well as colleagues from the DAAD headquarters in Bonn met in Addis Ababa from 20th till 25th May.

DAAD Ghana Alumni

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, June 2019

In a bid to promote international scientific cooperation, supporting future leaders who are in a position to contribute to solving global challenges, the DAAD offers alumni/former scholars the opportunity to organize events that contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ghanaian German Postgraduate Training

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, June 2019

Ten scholars from the fields of Bioscience, Environmental science, Computer science, Engineering and other subject areas we selected to begin their doctoral training in Germany from October, 2019.

Ghana Job Fair 2019

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, June 2019

The Ghana Job Fair, organized by the Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (GGC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR), is a platform to bring together employers and job seekers for the purpose of recruitment.

Falling Walls Lab Ghana 2019

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, June 2019

The 4th edition of the Falling Walls LAB Ghana took place on 17th may, 2019 at the conference room of the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Legon.

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Navigating women’s careers

DIES-Workshop

The DAAD information centre in Accra organised a workshop on “Navigating Women’s Careers in Higher Education” to help tackle the problems that women's careers are still impacted by limited access to higher education and science.

Editorial

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, February 2019

A new year is always a good time to start with clean slates and make some improvements. We are doing the same by introducing our updated newsletter format.

Erasmus+ Networking Forum

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, February 2019

The DAAD’s National Agency for EU Higher Education Cooperation invited selected higher education representatives from Germany to network with their colleagues in Ghana and find partner institutions in the framework of the Erasmus+ capacity building programme.

PhD Proposal Writing Workshop

DAAD Ghana Newsletter, February 2019

The DAAD Information Centre Accra has over the years been organizing annual PhD Proposal Writing Workshop. This is a great avenue to advice and support prospective PhD candidates fine-tune their proposals for a successful doctoral programme application.

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