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Information Center Accra, Edition 10 | June 2013

In this Issue:

• ICT for Africa

• Ghanaians have the most

favourable attitude toward

Germany

• Farewell to the out-going Di-

rector of the DAAD Information

Center Accra: Dr. Heike Edel-

mann-Okinda

Imprint

Publisher:

Deutscher Akademischer Aus-

tauschdienst e.V. (DAAD)

Kennedyallee 50

D-53175 Bonn

Contact:

Tel.: 0302 760342 / 784865

Mail: [email protected]

Web: www.ic.daad.de/accra

Location: Goethe-Institut Accra

(Located next to NAFTI, East Can-

tonments)

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Editor:

Dr.(Mrs.) Edelmann-Okinda

(Director, DAAD IC Accra)

Photos: Gudrun Widlock (P1)

Patrick K. Arthur (P3)

Julia Meindl (P4)

Dear reader,

When you receive this June edition of our

DAAD Ghana Newsletter at the end of the

academic year 2012/2013, you may have

successfully passed your examinations and

start planning for your next academic steps

– or you might even set off in order to con-

tinue your tertiary education in Germany.

We are very pleased that the information

and counseling services we provided over

the recent years contributed to a visible in-

crease in the number of Ghanaians, going

to Germany to further their education, and

to the number of scholarships awarded to

Ghanaians for studying or doing research in

Germany. We are in the same way very

glad to realize a growing interest of German

universities in collaborating with Ghanaian

universities.

After having been to Ghana for the recent

six years, my term has come to an end.

With this last newsletter edition I would like

to thank our numerous Ghanaian and Ger-

man partners at the universities, at the

MoE, the NCTE, the Scholarship Secre-

tariat, just to mention a few, for the very

fruitful collaboration, and last but not least

let me thank you, our highly esteemed read-

ers. Let me finally introduce my successor

to you, the acting director of the DAAD In-

formation Center, Mr. Felix Barnes, who is

well known to you as our programme offi-

cer.

I hope that you will enjoy reading this news-

letter and I wish you all the best for your

future academic and professional aspira-

tions.

Dr. (Mrs.) Heike Edelmann-Okinda

Director, DAAD Information Center Accra

DAAD Alumni meet with Dr. Guido Westerwelle - German Federal for Foreign Affairs

Dr. Guido Westerwelle visited the DAAD In-

formation Center Accra on 27th April 2013 as

part of his four-day trip to Africa, travelling

the countries Ghana, South Africa and Mo-

zambique. Recognizing Africa as the conti-

nent of opportunities, the German Federal

Minister for Foreign Affairs met with the

DAAD Alumni within an inspiring discussion,

that was shaped by a mutual exchange of

ideas relating to educational and economic

cooperation between Ghana and Germany.

We feel honoured by the visit of Dr Guido

Westerwelle and thank all our DAAD Alumni

and Scholarship holders for sharing their

ideas and impressions of the Ghanaian-

German partnership with us.

9 Ghanaians receive DAAD-Government of Ghana scholarship (2nd batch)

The second batch of recipients of the

DAAD—Government of Ghana scholarship

were officially handed their scholarship award

certificates in a small ceremony at the Goethe

-Institut in Accra on Tuesday 23rd of April,

2013.

DAAD Programmes:

• DAAD Public Policy and Good

Governance / Courses with rele-

vance to developing countries • Research grant for doctoral

candidates and young academ-

ics and scientists - New applica-

tion procedure (DAAD-MOVE

portal) • DAAD ‘Welcome to Africa’ fund-

ing programme

• DAAD donates laboratory

equipment to Dept. of Biochem-

istry, Cell and Molecular Biol-

ogy, Univ. of Ghana

DAAD In-Country Events:

• DAAD Alumni meet with Dr.

Guido Westerwelle - German

Federal Minister for Foreign

Minister

• 9 Ghanaians receive DAAD-

Government of Ghana Scholar-

ship (2nd Batch)

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Interested in pursuing a

PhD in Germany?

Make use of the PhD databa-

se:

www.phdgermany.de

Learn more about Re-search-in-Germany

www.research-in-germany.de

Among other things, find out

about Germany’s Research

Landscape, funding opportu-

nities for your research

(mostly for doctoral and post

doc research), research

areas, news and events etc.

DAAD Scholarship

www.funding-guide.de

Search for DAAD funded

programmes as well as

scholarships from other

German scholarship award-

ing Institutions.

DAAD, Information Center Accra, Edition 10 | June, 2013

DAAD Scholarship for Courses with Relevance to Develo-ping Countries

Please visit www.daad.de/

development and go to

‘Information for Students and

Alumni’ - click on Postgradu-

ate Information and then

Postgraduate courses.

Please note, applications are

made one year prior to com-

mencement of scholarship.

ences and education, media studies, eco-

nomics and business administration. De-

tails of this programme are also available

on the scholarship section of the DAAD

Accra website.

For further information email:

[email protected].

Research grant for doctoral can-didates and young academics and scientists - New online appli-cation procedure (DAAD-MOVE portal)

The German Academic Exchange Service

will from August, 2013 introduce an new

application portal known as the DAAD-

MOVE online application portal. This portal

will for now be used by applicants for

DAAD research grants (short term grant

i.e. 1-6 months and long term research

grant i.e more than six months extendable

up to a year).

The link to the portal will be available

through the Scholarship Database of the

main DAAD Homepage. From there, appli-

cants will be redirected to the DAAD-

MOVE application portal where applicants

will complete a mandatory application. Ap-

plicants will also upload relevant applica-

tion documents onto the portal. After this

mandatory application procedure, appli-

cants will have to print out and sign a con-

firmation of the completed application

which will be submitted along with other

relevant documents to the DAAD Informa-

tion Center, DAAD regional office or the

German Embassy.

For more information about applying for a

DAAD research grant (short term or long

term), kindly send an email enquiry to

[email protected]

DAAD ‘Welcome to Africa’ fund-ing programme

'Welcome to Africa' is the name of the

DAAD university cooperation programme

funded by the German Federal Ministry of

Alumniportal Deutsch-land

www.alumniportal-deutschland.org

As a Germany trained alumnus/

alumna, you are welcome to join

other Germany trained colleagues

through this online community.

Find jobs, follow-up on Blogs, join

subject related groups etc.

Also present at the handing over ceremony

were Mr. Prince Asante, Assistant Director at

the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Mrs.

Isolde Rausch, Development Cooperation

Attaché, Embassy of the Federal Republic of

Germany and Dr. Heike Edelmann-Okinda,

Director, DAAD Information Center Accra.

The DAAD-Government of Ghana scholar-

ship is a very good avenue making it possi-

ble for many more young Ghanaians to pur-

sue their doctorate in Germany. You can

make enquiries concerning this scholarship

opportunity at the Ghana Scholarship Secre-

tariat or the DAAD Information Center Accra.

DAAD Public Policy and Good Governance / Courses with rele-vance to developing countries - 31st July, 2013

The deadline for the above named DAAD

programmes is fast approaching.

Public Policy and Good Governance includes

Masters degree programmes in the fields of

public policy, public policy and management,

governance and development, politics

among others. Details of courses available,

the application procedure and requirements

are available on the scholarship section of

the DAAD Accra website (www.ic.daad.de/

accra).

Courses with relevance to developing coun-

tries also includes fields like development co

-operation, engineering and related sciences,

regional planning, public health, agricultural

and forest sciences, environmental sciences,

veterinary medicine, social and political sci-

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Education and Research. Students, graduates and

young researchers from Germany are hosted for study

and research stays at African Universities. The objective

of this initiative is to strengthen scientific exchange in

both directions by developing joint projects. In the

course of their stay, German academics are being intro-

duced to African research topics in order to strengthen

cross-country collaboration.

The programme also aims at creating sustainable re-

search structures at African Universities by expanding

their research and training capacities. However,

‘Welcome to Africa’ shall not replace other programmes

in the field of individual and co-operational funding.

In 2013 – the first year of the three-year 'Welcome to

Africa' programme – 11 out of 80 applicants have re-

ceived funding.

The DAAD Information Center Accra wishes to bring

this information to the notice of Ghanaian universities

and to encourage them to contact their German part-

ners to apply for funding for collaborative research.

DAAD donates laboratory equipment to De-partment of Biochemisty, Cell and Molecu-lar Biology, University of Ghana

On 24th May, 2013, The deputy Ambassador of the Fed-

eral Republic of Germany, Mr. Thomas Wimmer, pre-

sented a certificate of donation to Dr. Patrick Kobina

Arthur, the applicant for the donation and an Alumnus of

University of Göttingen, Germany. Dr. Arthur is currently

a faculty member of the Department of Biochemistry,

Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana.

This donation was made possible through the

"equipment grants for higher education and comparable

scientific and research institutions in developing coun-

tries" funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Co-

operation and Development (BMZ).

The DAAD award of the equipment grant is towards

a project titled: "Isolation of Novel Antibiotics

against Multi-drug Resistant Staphylococcus

aureus". The specific set of equipment was pur-

chased and shipped from Germany. These in-

cluded a Class II biosafety cabinet, a rotary evapo-

rator as well as plate and shaking incubators.

The application process was strongly supported by

Dr. med. F. Schaumburg and Prof. Dr. med. K.

Becker from the Institute of Medical Microbiology of

the University of Münster in Germany and the head

of department and Dean of the Faculty of Science,

University of Ghana. This equipment donation,

which has been duly received and installed since

20th of February 2013, is key to building capacity

for infectious disease research in Ghana.

For further information about on equipment grants

from the DAAD, email [email protected].

ICT for Africa

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

and the German Federal Ministry of Education and

Research (BMBF) are currently funding the devel-

opment of joint study programmes between Ger-

man and African universities in the field of applied

information and communication technology (ICT)

with specialisations in environmental management,

health management and business computer sci-

ence.

The objectives of this funding programme include

the implementation of ICT Master degree courses,

the training of ICT professionals in sub-Saharan

Africa and also to enhance networking between

scientists in Germany and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Within this funding programme, three projects will

be funded for two years with up to € 150,000 per

project per year. The beneficiary of this pro-

gramme in Ghana is the Accra Institute for Environ-

mental and Sanitation Studies at the University of

Ghana. This is under the project title Environ-

mental Management Information Systems for the

Sub-Saharan region. Other institutions involved

with this project are the University of Oldenburg,

Germany, University of Dar Es Salaam as well as

the Universidade Pedagogica, Mozambique.

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Ghanaians have the most favourable attitude toward Germany

According to a survey of the BBC, Germany has been rated the most popular country in the world. 26,000 people from

25 countries were surveyed internationally to rate 16 countries and the European Union on whether their influence in the

world was "mainly positive" or "mainly negative". Germany received 59% of positive votes and is therefore perceived

most positively in comparison to the other countries. Germany's popularity might be a result of diligent diplomacy. Ger-

man development aid is supporting many developing countries and a number of German delegations have left positive

impressions abroad. Ghanaians have the most favourable attitude toward Germany, with 84% approving. GlobeScan

and PIPA conducted the survey for the British broadcaster BBC.

Farewell to Dr. Heike Edelmann-Okinda Written by Felix Barnes (Programme Officer, DAAD IC Accra)

Dr. Edelmann-Okinda began her tour of duty in October, 2007, taking over from Dr. Har-

old Olk. Her term of office saw the realization of the Center of Excellence at the Univer-

sity of Ghana with reference to doctoral studies in Public Health and Development Stud-

ies. Since October 2011, the selection process for the new DAAD-Government of

Ghana scholarship programme was initiated. This year, a new call for applicants for the

third phase of the programme is already in the pipeline. These scholarship packages

have afforded many more Ghanaian young men and women the opportunity of doing a

doctorate degree in Germany and Ghana with a prestigious scholarship.

The DAAD Information Center Accra and the entire tertiary education landscape of Ghana is immensely grateful to Dr.

Heike Edelmann-Okinda, who through her tireless efforts, worked to see the realization of such programmes among oth-

ers. On behalf of all the Ghanaian partners of the DAAD Information Center Accra, I say a big THANK YOU to Dr. Heike

Edelmann-Okinda. You have indeed promoted Germany as a study and research destination in Ghana. We wish you

success in all your future endeavours. ‘Ye ma wo mo!’

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