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Hochschule Neubrandenburg visits Partner University in Minna, Nigeria

by NetCDA | April 20, 2026 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

In October 2025, Elke Mertens and Ralf Löwner from the NetCDA partner Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences visited their partner university, the Federal University of Technology Minna. The visit took place from October 19 to November 1, 2025, and focused on...

New Open Access Paper on Climate Change and Food Production in Africa

by NetCDA | March 13, 2026 | Activities | 0 Comments

Frequency of prominent climate hazards causing losses and damages in food production as reported in the literature, by African regions (Filho et al. 2026). A new open-access publication first-authored by a NETCDA member from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences...

New publication by WASCAL PhD student

by NetCDA | February 16, 2026 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

The open access paper “Reforming African Universities for Climate Action” has been published in Sustainability Science and was co-authored by a NetCDA/WASCAL doctoral student. The study analyzes how African universities are responding to climate change, focusing on...

NetCDA at KNUST: Applied Remote Sensing Training with WASCAL PhD Candidates

by NetCDA | January 30, 2026 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

The NetCDA team is back at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, contributing to the WASCAL Graduate School on Climate Change and Land Use. Over two intensive weeks, NetCDA colleagues Dr. Michael Thiel and Lilly Schell...

Open Call: Knowledge Transfer Grants to Support Sustainable Food Systems in Africa & Europe

by NetCDA | January 24, 2026 | News, Upcoming events | 0 Comments

The STREAMING initiative (funded by Horizon Europe) has launched an open call for Knowledge Transfer Grants aimed at supporting digital training solutions that help translate research into practical skills for stakeholders across Africa and Europe. Up to 11 projects...

Successful NETCDA Meeting in Lomé, Togo

by NetCDA | January 8, 2026 | Activities, News | 0 Comments

From 9–11 December 2025, the NETCDA network convened at the WASCAL Centre in Lomé, Togo for a productive and forward-looking meeting. Representatives from the German partner universities and African partner institutions joined the discussions, alongside a...

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...

Experiencing rural Würzburg – NetCDA on a cultural exchange

Feb 29, 2024 | Activities

This week, the NetCDA team from the University of Würzburg went with their guest graduate students from West Africa on a small trip to some rural areas of Würzburg. Cultural exchange is an important component for our students – for some, it is their first visit to...

New guest researcher at the University of Würzburg: Ousmane Badji

Feb 23, 2024 | Graduate guest researchers, News

We are delighted to welcome Ousmane Badji, our newest guest scientist from Senegal, at the Earth Observation Research Cluster at the University of Würzburg. Ousmane arrived in January 2024 and will stay at the University of Würzburg until the 15th of May, 2024....

Start of NetCDA

Feb 9, 2024 | Activities

Since the beginning of the year, the the consortium of the new BMBF-funded project “NetCDA: European Academic Network for Capacity Development in Climate Change Adaptations in Africa” has taken up its work, which aims at strengthening cademic education on climate...

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