My #Sciencehero is Evelyn Cheesman | Falling Walls Fragments
http://www.fallingwallsfragments.com/2016/11/24/my-sciencehero-is-evelyn-cheesman/
The importance of education in breaking the walls of gender inequality | Falling Walls Fragments
http://www.fallingwallsfragments.com/2017/02/28/the-importance-of-education-in-breaking-the-walls-of-gender-inequality/
2017 | Africa | Capacity building | Global | Information | Marwa Shumo
From Cologne to Kenya: Interview with alumna Marwa Shumo
http://www.portal.uni-koeln.de/index.php?id=12395%3F&L=1
2017 | Africa | Field research | Food Security | Global | Marwa Shumo | Researchers
Farewell to a SWEET 16
Every life but a minute in time, But each of equal importance. Cindy Cheney Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life. Do not be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Steve Jobs Here I am, never did I ever think…
The Falling Walls Experience
Here I am, for the third time in a year in a city I adore very much… BERLIN 😀 Since 2010,I have visited Berlin at least once a year, and every time I return I spend a wonderful time that lets Berlin invites me for an even more interesting event. I arrived in Berlin early…
2016 | Africa | Field research | Food Security | Marwa Shumo
Back in Nairobi :-D
Here is a quick recap on the soon coming to an end summer 🙂 My summer that started in Germany was quite busy and active. A very interesting event that I visited was the University 10th annual Science Nights that aims to showcase various and different scientific disciplines studied and researched by the university different…
2016 | Asia | Catherine Reynolds | Science Policy | ZEF/Bonn
Summary: An Uneducation in the Release of the Unexpected
Talk by ZEF-Senior Researcher Epifania Amoo-Adare about an explanatory guide that discusses post-disciplinary perspectives for (un)thinking current modes of research. Epifania Amoo-Adare has been following a figuration of processes related to knowledge generation and unlearning, since she joined the research project Crossroads Asia in 2013. Amoo-Adare’s journey has been, in her words, both systematic and…
Will bugs save our life: A conference on the importance of edible insects in East Africa
Sunday, late at night, Marwa finally returned to her Kenyan home after a wonderful experience in Berlin. Monday morning and just few hours later, she got up and exchanged the winter clothes in her suitcase with summer ones. She was exhausted, yet excited, sleepy but rather spent the night sleepless. As she walked out of…
Cherry blossoms in Tokyo
The weather was cold in Japan. It was rainy most of the days. However, we were lucky enough to see some cherry trees blossoming. Their magical pinky colour attracts people from all around who pose in front of them for pictures or gather at nights to eat and drink beer underneath them. We as tourists…
“Science and policy advice are closely interlinked.” About fishery, the impact of Fukushima and changing consumption and lifestyle patterns in Japan
Interview with Professor Nobuyuki Yagi, who is Associate Professor of Resource Economics and Marine Policy at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Before joining the University of Tokyo in 2008, he had worked for the Fisheries Agency of the Government of Japan. From 1999 to 2002 he was First Secretary at…