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After a long period of corona-induced abstinence (the last trip to Kenya took place at the beginning of 2020), there is now hope again for a personal reunion with our Kenyan project partners. Starting next Monday, 12 of them will be able to attend the final workshop of the DAAD-funded project ProUniEdu-WeK in person for weiterlesen…

On Friday, there was an exciting one-day conference on cooperation between Africa and Europe in the field of higher education cooperation, which fitted perfectly with our project and where our poster on practice-oriented higher education in Western Kenya attracted many interested participants. So it may happen that our network is extended by cooperation partners from weiterlesen…

…Laura, that you managed to write a post here during the eventful time of our German-Kenyan workshop and the scholarship stays of Kenyan lecturers in the past 4 weeks! The rest of us were obviously unable to do so, although (or perhaps because) it was an exciting and inspiring time: First of all, the workshop weiterlesen…

I have a rather small role in the Kenya exchange programme, but nevertheless I would like to share my experience with you. My first meeting with the Kenyans was very positive and inspiring. I got to know the Kenyans when they entered the university for the first time on Monday morning. The problem soon arose weiterlesen…

Sitting in Berlin, I look outside my window and the gloomy weather with the dry trees stare back. I cannot help but remember and long for the beautiful green trees and the lush grass I had for a constant view last week. I was quite fortunate to be given a wonderful opportunity professionally and personally weiterlesen…

After leaving MMUST at around 1 pm on Friday, we drove to the Kakamega National Forest Reserve – a protected rainforest. After an initial short stretch along a village road, we turned off into the thicket. Here we got a really good impression of a jungle. In addition, we were somewhat protected from the scorching weiterlesen…

Tag 4 Thursday was time for professional discussions in the individual disciplines. We all had our small groups with whom we hotly discussed the planned projects. So I don’t have much text or photos here. Only this much: The water filtration project of Prof. Malessa and Sona Awasthi was practically underpinned by a visit to weiterlesen…

Now we are all here, again a bit north of the equator ;-). After a long flight to Nairobi with a “reunification” of the group at Nairobi airport and a pleasant night there, we flew in the morning to Kisumu at Lake Victoria. There, phone cards were purchased, money exchanged and we studied the local weiterlesen…

The first two days of work with the colleagues at Masinde Muliro’s University of Science and Technology (MMUST) are over and it’s time for a first interim report. Day 1 Yesterday we were greeted with all honor and great cordiality. After our start in the International Office, we had an appointment with the Chancellor of weiterlesen…

I am sitting with Jan in the coffee shop 😉 of the nice old-style Silver Springs hotel, which is located in a quite green part of the Kenyan capital and has been hosting us for the last 4 nights. With espresso and chef salad, we let pass (part of) the intense time that has passed weiterlesen…

Here, a website for the DAAD-funded project ProUniEdu-WeK (Practice-oriented University Education in Western Kenya) is being developed, in which a network for the promotion of practice-oriented education at Kenyan universities is to be set up. Main actors are the Technical University of Brandenburg (THB), the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal (HMS) and the Masinde Muliro weiterlesen…