NetCDA

European Academic Network for Capacity Development in Climate Change Adaptations
in Africa

About NetCDA

The BMBF-funded project NetCDA aims to strengthen academic education on climate change adaptation strategies in Africa. The project is run by nine German partners in a project consortium in close collaboration with the graduate school programme of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL).  

Since 2010, WASCAL is dedicated to capacity development and strengthening the research infrastructure related to climate change. The academic education of young professionals in association with the German counterparts is a pivotal component of their work.

Over the next two years, the collaboration project NetCDA aims to:

  1. support WASCAL doctoral students in continuing and successfully completing their research work, including the supervision by German partners and research visits at the German partner institutions for up to six months
  2. strengthen the implementation of a German network of WASCAL graduate schools
  3. initiate an academic network that unites climate change researchers from Europe and Africa who are active in education.

Interested in learning more about NetCDA, the consortium, and our West African partners? Then please have a look at our About section. You will find the latest news about our activities in our “News” section.

News Blog

Four ERASMUS+ Students from Africa Join the EAGLE Master Programme at the University of Würzburg During the Winter Term

This winter semester, the University of Würzburg had the pleasure of welcoming two students from each of its esteemed African partner universities—North-West University in South Africa and Koforidua Technical University in Ghana—through the ERASMUS+ KA171 program....

Last Year’s WASCAL Guest Scientists at the University of Würzburg Prepare to Defend Their Theses

The WASCAL guest scientists who visited the University of Würzburg last year are currently preparing to defend their doctoral theses. In this context, the university is actively participating in the preparatory seminars at the WASCAL graduate schools. The University...

Effect of Aquatic Plants on Water Quality in the Lower Volta Basin, Ghana – a presentation by Dr. Linda Appiah Boamah

On January 22, 2025, the Earth Observation Research Cluster in Würzburg welcomed Dr. Linda Appiah Boamah from the Technical University of Koforidua, Ghana. She presented her research on the “Effect of Aquatic Plants on Water Quality of the Lower Volta Basin, Ghana"....

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