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Join our session at EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna!

by NetCDA | October 23, 2025 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

We are pleased to announce the session ITS4.33/CLO.19: “Strengthening African-European Partnerships for Global Change Research: From Scientific Capacity to Practical Solutions” at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2026, taking place in Vienna, Austria from 3–8 May...

Rostock researchers support field work in Côte d’Ivoire

by NetCDA | October 17, 2025 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

We are happy to share that the NetCDA team from the University of Rostock has recently returned from an inspiring 10-day mission to Côte d'Ivoire. The main objective of this visit was to accompany a doctoral student's final fieldwork on inselbergs around Korhogo,...

Annual NetCDA Meeting 2025 in Würzburg

by NetCDA | October 16, 2025 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

14–15 October 2025 This year’s NetCDA Annual Meeting took place in Würzburg, bringing together the German partner universities for two days of exchange, reflection, and planning. The meeting provided an opportunity to look back on the supervision and experiences with...

NetCDA Members in Ghana: Training and Capacity Building on Remote Sensing

by NetCDA | September 30, 2025 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

In September 2025, NetCDA members Dr. Michael Thiel and Dr. Insa Otte traveled to Kumasi, Ghana, to deliver the first test-run of the MSc module Remote Sensing for Biodiversity Conservation, developed under the EOcap4Africa project. Hosted by the Kwame Nkrumah...

New study on invasive species in Rwanda by NetCDA Member

by NetCDA | September 23, 2025 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

A new publication by NetCDA members Lilly Schell and Dr. Insa Otte (also EOCap4Africa project) was just published in the Journal Frontiers in Plant Science. Their study, “Synergistic use of satellite, legacy, and in situ data to predict spatio-temporal patterns of the...

New study on the conservation of biodiversity in West Africa by NetCDA member

by NetCDA | September 22, 2025 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

A new study, led by Dr. Insa Otte, NetCDA and EOCap4Africa project member at the University of Würzburg, on the conflict between biodiversity conservation in protected areas and agricultural development in West Africa has been published in the journal Natur und...

Succesful MSc Theseis Defense by Jean de Dieu Tuyizere

by NetCDA | September 19, 2025 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

We are pleased to share that Jean de Dieu Tuyizere, MSc student at the University of Würzburg, has successfully defended his thesis entitled: “Utilizing deep learning and Earth Observation data to predict land cover changes in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda.” The...

Call for Applications – WASCAL-GERICS School 2025 in Ouagadougou //Appel à candidatures – École WASCAL-GERICS 2025 à Ouagadougou

by NetCDA | July 31, 2025 | News, Upcoming events | 0 Comments

For more details about the 2025 WASCAL-GERICS School and its modules, please see the flyer below. (La version française se trouve ci-dessous.)

New Open Access Publication on Climate Change Education and Malaria

by NetCDA | July 21, 2025 | uncategorized | 0 Comments

We’re pleased to share a new open-access publication by NetCDA members in the Journal Critical Public Health: “Climate change, education, and malaria at African universities: a scoping review to assess education provision on the effects of climate change on malaria in...

Congratulations to Dr. Afua Amponsah Amankwah on her succesful PhD Defense

by NetCDA | July 21, 2025 | uncategorized | 0 Comments

We are pleased to share that Dr. Afua Amponsah Amankwah successfully defended her PhD thesis on 27th June 2025. Dr. Amankwah was a scholar in the WASCAL Doctoral Programme on Climate Change and Biodiversity at Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Abidjan, Côte...