Back in Berlin: International Green Week 2018
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Back in Berlin: International Green Week 2018

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

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
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18th Bonn Science Slam

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

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…

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

ByIrit Eguavoen

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

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

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
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IPIFF International Meeting in Brussels

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

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…

Getting it done! Getting over the PhD blues
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Getting it done! Getting over the PhD blues

ByDr. Marwa Shumo

  There has been a lot of discussions in academia recently about research studies that focused on the mental hygiene of PhD students and the amount of pressure they undergo that can easily develop into what is known as the PhD blues. I love what I am doing, I love my flies, I adore my…

Postcard from Paris/ Rive Gauche: Urban renewal and controversies about the Right to the City in the South
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Postcard from Paris/ Rive Gauche: Urban renewal and controversies about the Right to the City in the South

ByIrit Eguavoen

The quarter Rive Gauche (literally: left bank) between the Seine River and the Avenue de France has undergone urban renewal since 1995. One of the objective was to create better connections between the city and the river by extending the main roads to the banks, as well as by building waterfront promenades and rehabilitate old…

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Protected: Reflecting on the past, explaining the present and thinking about the future: Snippets from the Migration With (out) Boundaries Conference (6-7 October 2017)

ByMercy Mashingaidze

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Contribution to COP 23: Different stakes in environmental activism against coal. Perspectives from Germany and Bangladesh
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Contribution to COP 23: Different stakes in environmental activism against coal. Perspectives from Germany and Bangladesh

ByIrit Eguavoen

[aesop_parallax img=”https://blog.zef.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/comp_P1030585.jpg” parallaxbg=”fixed” captionposition=”bottom-left” lightbox=”off” floater=”on” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”none” overlay_revealfx=”off”] About 20,000 people demonstrated in Bonn for the so-called Kohleausstieg (stepping away from using coal for energy generation) on 4th November 2017. Participants came from Germany and many other countries in order to request COP 23 delegates and politicians to end fossil fuel energy generation and…

Yazd and water. Foto by Irit Eguavoen
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Postcard from Yazd in Iran: Knowledge hub on qanats, water reservoirs, wind catchers and cloud seeding

ByIrit Eguavoen

The Iranian oasis town Yazd is known as the capital of wind catchers. Its surrounding province has around 500,000 inhabitants. The ancient city was built in around 3000 BC and has many historic clay buildings built in narrow streets and an amazing, century-old water system. In 2017, it was declared a UNESCO heritage site. UNESCO…