Wil je meer te weten komen over de Democratische Republiek Congo (DRC)? Kom dan zeker naar onze Congo Talks!

Op deze avond laat Humasol 3 sprekers aan het woord die je helemaal onderdompelen in de DRC, zowel het heden als verleden.

Met achteraf gratis receptie.

This summer (3-7 July 2023), University of Minnesota, together with UGent/VIB are organizing a “Summer Institute in Plant Breeding” in Ghent, Belgium.

There are six modules available within the course.

SET 1

•     Genomewide Markers in Plant Breeding
•     CRISPRing in Plants
•     Machine Learning Applied to Plant Science

SET 2

•     Genetic Analysis in Understudied Plants
•     The Many Dimensions of Plant Phenotyping
•     Data Bootcamp for Genomic Prediction in Plant Breeding

Members of a PlantB+B partner institution are eligible to benefit from the waiving of the registration.

ALFinMOTION aims to encourage intercultural dialogue actions between the two shores of the Mediterranean through physical mobility projects involving different types of expertise and profiles. 

One of the schemes is on Mobility for Knowledge, where its objective is to create tandems with civil society organizations and research/academic institutions (think tanks, specialized research centers or universities) from different shores of the Mediterranean in order to jointly produce cross-sectoral/cross-border knowledge on relevant aspects of Intercultural Dialogue. 

What does climate racism mean? How can the climate movement be decolonised? What are the intersections between the anti-racism and climate movement and what can they learn from each other?
These questions and many more will be answered in this highly inspiring panel discussion on climate racism.

This Call for Proposals corresponds to the implementation of Specific Objective 1 of the Action ‘Peaceful and Resilient Borderlands’ (ACT-61057). 

The global objective of this call for proposals is to enhance effectiveness of conflict prevention and mitigation, disaster risk reduction and management, and resilience-building in cross-border communities in select border areas in the Horn of Africa.

Een verzwegen leven is een journalistiek opgevat boek dat aan de hand van interviews met nazaten en archiefbronnen een onbekend stuk Belgische geschiedenis bloot legt.

Het is vreemd dat de eigen kinderen van François Kamanda bitter weinig wisten over het leven van hun vader. Daarom is het dan ook lovenswaardig dat Eva Kamanda en Kristof Bohez een lange weg gegaan zijn om een verzwegen leven op een boeiende manier openbaar te maken.

The annual interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical agriculture, natural resource management and rural development (Tropentag) is jointly organised by the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Göttingen, Hohenheim, Kassel-Witzenhausen, ZALF e.V. (all Germany), Ghent University (Belgium), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (Czech Republic), BOKU Vienna (Austria), and the Council for Tropical and Subtropical Research (ATSAF e.V) in co-operation with the GIZ Fund International Agricultural Research (FIA).

Tropentag 2023 invites a debate on competing pathways for food systems transformation, drawing from diverse perspectives, disciplines and methodologies.

This week, AEGIS – Europe’s dynamic association of African Studies – has launched its brand-new website. 

With a completely new interface and many new features, the site provides important updated information about:

• almost 40 AEGIS institutional members;
• 10 thematic Collaborative Research Groups;
• key African Studies events such as the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) and AEGIS PhD Summer School as well as other significant news and opportunities;
• the AEGIS-Brill African Studies book series and a range of other relevant publications;
• and the spectrum of teaching in African Studies across Europe.

Discover more about African Studies in Europe and beyond, and engage with us and each other through the new AEGIS website: https://www.aegis-eu.org/.

Ghent University's Rector and a number of professors will participate in the Belgian Economic Mission to the Republic of Senegal presided by HRH Princess Astrid of Belgium, Representative of His Majesty the King

This will be in the presence of:

HE Hadja LAHBIB, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Federal Cultural Institutions

HE Willy BORSUS, Vice-President of the Walloon Government and Minister of Economy, Foreign Trade, Research and Innovation, New technologies, Agriculture, and Urban and Spatial planning

HE Pascal SMET, State Secretary of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Urbanism and Heritage, European and International Relations, Foreign Trade and Firefighting and Emergency medical Assistance