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Bonn Sciences Night/Bonner Wissenschaftsnacht

ByDr. Marwa Shumo May 21, 2018January 21, 2025

The 11th „Science Night“ of the University of Bonn took place at the Münsterplatz and the Central Building of the University of Bonn. Tailored to the common topic “Cycles”, there were exhibitions, presentations and performances by universities and research institutes of the local area “Bonn-Rhein Sieg”. The event that takes places every other year offers…

A spring full of bug activities

ByDr. Marwa Shumo May 21, 2018January 21, 2025

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland We did experience a long harsh winter this year, but at the end, spring did not skipp us and it did arrive in a full swing. The arrival of spring means being able to walk around our beautiful 200 years old university campus…

About books and cooks: How ZEF’s NutriHAF project developed ways to combat malnutrition by sharing knowledge about agriculture and nutrition in Ethiopia

ByJochen Duerr April 19, 2018January 21, 2025

The question of how to best put science into practice is not new but still subject of public and experts’ debate. In reality it is not that easy to accomplish. An amazingly successful approach to put theory into practice was taken by ZEF’s NutriHAF project, a German-Ethiopian participatory research and capacity building project. It is…

We made it to a list of great blogs on edible insects associated with an article on edible insects & food security for “The Independent”

ByDr. Marwa Shumo March 22, 2018January 21, 2025

University of Cambridge researcher Charlotte LR Payne wrote an article for the independent on edible insects & food security with an accompanying supplementary list on blogs related to edible insects including my ZEF blog section Here is a link to Charlotte LR Payne’s blog http://www.libertyruth.com/blog/an-article-for-the-independent-and-a-list-of-great-blogs

Marwa Shumo featured in EntoNation Magazine

ByDr. Marwa Shumo March 17, 2018January 21, 2025

I was delighted to be featured in one of Ento Nation, USA posts Click here for a full view of the EntoNation post on Marwa Shumo The EntoNation article Some info about Ento Nation: Your online resource for all things Ento. Bringing the benefits of bugs to people and planet. If you love bugs,…

Back in Berlin: International Green Week 2018

ByDr. Marwa Shumo January 31, 2018January 21, 2025

I woke up on the morning to the 14th of November 2017 to a very beautiful and delighting email from the wonderful Anne Borisch, a junior consultant working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (English: German Corporation for International Cooperation ) which is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides…

18th Bonn Science Slam

ByDr. Marwa Shumo January 11, 2018January 21, 2025

2018 started in a fantastic way. You could see the atmosphere we had from the fireworks we enjoyed and that ignited our city’s skyline. Somewhere in December, I was hooked up with the agency in charge of organizing the 18th Bonn Science Slam through my supervisor who encouraged me to go for it. This comes…

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Twelve months – twelve books: My 2018 reading list on cities

ByIrit Eguavoen January 4, 2018January 21, 2025

ZEF researchers read hundreds of academic articles, books, reports and media every year in order to stay up to date about what is going on in their field of study, to collect information and contextualise their empirical data. For those among us who are interested in researching cities I particular – or even reading about…

Farewell to a dancing ’17. Hello to a grand ’18

ByDr. Marwa Shumo December 27, 2017January 21, 2025

Here, we reach that time of the year, when we somehow slow down from within. Winter didn’t arrive that early this year and we were still experiencing autumn like weather at a time it used to be snowing several years ago. Well, that doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all, we still had…

IPIFF International Meeting in Brussels

ByDr. Marwa Shumo December 27, 2017January 21, 2025

Here is an update on my trip to the capital of the European Union Brussels. An attempt to catch the early morning train despite the renovations that are currently taking place in Bonn central train station and a brief stop in Cologne central train station and as you can see, the beginning of the advent…