Are you a former DAAD and AvH scholarship holder from Kenya?

Join us for an evening of both professional engagement and networking, but also of celebration of our achievements, successes and challenges we have overcome in the year 2024!

The event will happen on Thursday, 5 December 2024.

What can you expect?

• With a new leadership elected this year, the Kenya DAAD Scholars Association (KDSA) is eager to present to its current – and hopefully new – members how, in concrete terms, they wish to move the organisation forward to the benefit of all. Your input is wanted!
• A match making session for academic and scientific collaborations within East Africa: Meet and engage with five high-profile representatives of research organisations/ universities from the East Africa region who are actively seeking collaborations and will pitch their institutions/projects to you in 5 minutes each. Go home with a contact, a plan and possibly a deadline.
• Learn about current funding opportunities. Steal lessons from one Alumnus who won a highly competitive grant – and win the next one yourself.

Network, network, network during these encounters – and during a cocktail reception afterwards!

As we have limited funds, we are unfortunately not able to invite everyone. Therefore, kindly register your interest to attend via this link  as soon as possible – we will send out individual invitations on a first-come-first-served basis!

We can offer to pay transport expenses and accommodation for one night for a few guests from outside Nairobi; please indicate in the survey where you would be coming from and if you need accommodation.

We are looking forward to finally meeting you again, or for the first time.

TheMuseumsLab 2025 has opened its Call for applications!

TheMuseumsLab is a platform for joint learning, perspective exchange, networking and career building among African and European professionals. Bringing them together to build bridges between individuals, institutions, nations and two continents for an engaged discussion on how museums can confront their past, meet the present needs of society and work towards an equitable future.

For more information on the programme and application requirements and procedure please check: daad.de/go/en/stipa57655437

Application Deadline is 25 November 2024 (11:59 pm CET)

You can get more information on this document.

The Call for the International Deans’ Course for Africa is out. This intensive Training Course is part of the DIES programme (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies), which is jointly coordinated by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German
Rectors’ Conference (HRK) and funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Course Content, Methodology and Schedule

The key objective of the course is to bring together a group of about 30 newly elected deans, vice-deans and heads of departments from universities in the African region and to prepare them for the challenges of holding a dean’s position in a changing higher education landscape. Issues such as strategic faculty management, financial management, quality assurance and leadership will be key parts of this course. A soft skills training and exchange with German university leaders about higher education reforms will be included as well.
The course starts in June 2025 with Part I held on-site in Germany which aims to introduce important new concepts and tools in higher education management. The methodology will be strictly practice oriented and the use of case studies offers a forum to reflect on professional experiences of the course attendees. Thus, active participation will be necessary and the participants are expected to reflect on their respective working environment and to develop a Project Action Plan (PAP) at the end of this first contact phase.

These
PAPs should address individual reform projects which all participants are asked to implement during various stages of the course. The milestones of the PAPs will be further discussed during the intermediate virtual workshop (Part II). Finally, Part III offers the opportunity to assess the progress of the projects and to discuss lessons learnt among the group. Both, Part II and III include additional sessions on relevant higher education management topics.

Part I: ten days seminar in Osnabrück and Berlin, Germany from June 15th to June 28th, 2025
Part II: five days online seminar from November 10th to 14th, 2025
Part III: five days seminar in Ghana from February 9th to 13th, 2026 (tbc)

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This programme aims to deepen knowledge of the German language (general language, technical language) and regional studies.

Who can apply?

• Students in undergraduate (e.g. bachelor’s) and master’s degree programs in all disciplines are eligible to apply.
• Undergraduate students must have completed at least two academic years by the time the scholarship period begins.

What can be funded?

• The programme funds attendance of language, regional studies and technical language courses offered by state or state-recognised German universities and by affiliated language schools.
• Course providers and courses offered can be found on the DAAD website at: www.daad.de/hsk-kursliste.
• The courses are taught exclusively in German.

You can get more information here

The deadline for application is 1 December 2024. 

The In-Country/In-Region scholarship programme aims at fostering strong, internationally oriented higher education systems in Sub-Saharan Africa with the capacity to contribute to sustainable development. To this end, scholarships are granted for postgraduate and doctorate programmes for training of future professionals and managerial staff in developing countries, in particular university teachers.

By training future academic and professional leaders, the programme contributes to the following long-term impacts:

• Qualified professionals’ involvement in the solution of development-related problems in developing countries
• Graduates strengthening education and research in developing countries
• Structural strengthening and regional networking of partner institutions and partner universities

To achieve these long-term impacts, the following outcomes have been formulated as programme objectives:

Programme objective 1: Graduates are qualified to take on responsible positions in or for their region of origin. Supported study courses equip graduates for taking on positions of responsibility in development-related areas in teaching and research.

Programme objective 2: The participation of women and underprivileged groups is reinforced.

Programme objective 3: Organisational, financial and personal capacities of partner institutions are strengthened.

This programme strongly encourages mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans to study in participating host institutions within the Sub-Saharan region.

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The deadline for Application is 21 November 2024