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      Virtual Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium: Networks for a post-Covid era

      What role will science play as a catalyser for progress in the post-Covid-19 era? What research topics will drive our work? These are the questions that will be examined by top researchers from the African network at the Humboldt Foundation’s Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium being held on 30 and 31 March 2022. Here, we present four outstanding individuals and their work.

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    • Voices of the participants

      What drives young scientists to want to communicate with the public? What do they hope to achieve at the "Communicating Science" Summer School? Here, Humboldtians talk about their research and their goals for the joint workshop.

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      Voices of the participants
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      Water treatment: a global challenge – many local solutions

      Water is a valuable resource and is becoming ever scarcer. For years, the Potsdam chemist, Andreas Taubert, has been cooperating with colleagues from Nigeria on water treatment methods. Currently, Dr Gloria Ugwuja is working in Potsdam on a Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Fellowship. The story of a collaboration that is sustainable in many respects.

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      Ways out of the crisis

      With creativity and autonomy, sustainable education can succeed.

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    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      We Need Fearless Universities

      A conversation with Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation, on recruiting research luminaries and the benefits they bring German universities.

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      We Need Fearless Universities
    • We had absolutely no prospects

      Jeff Wilkesmann had to leave his home country Venezuela in 2017. His university was closed after a military intervention. Time and again, professors in the country disappeared. Thanks to a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, he was able to continue his work at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.

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      We had absolutely no prospects
    • We had absolutely no prospects

      Jeff Wilkesmann had to leave his home country Venezuela in 2017. His university was closed after a military intervention. Time and again, professors in the country disappeared. Thanks to a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, he was able to continue his work at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.

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      We had absolutely no prospects