Africa

Welcome to the "Africa" region website at Leibniz Universität Hannover. This page will help you navigate through the Africa partnership within Leibniz Universität Hannover and will be updated regularly with details and information on new and existing partnerships.


Projects between Leibniz Universität Hannover and Partner Universities/Institutions

  • Industrial use of bamboos in loadbearing structures

    Project description:
    Industrialization in Europe to replace increasing use of concrete and steel construction. Climate change now demands sustainable and competitive alternatives in the construction sector. The renewal material bamboos is excellently suited in the field of appropriate building technology.

    Contact:
    Prof. Alexander Furche
    Faculty of Architecture and Landscape
    Institute of Design and Construction - Department of Structures
    alexander.furche@iek.uni-hannover.de


    Partner university/institution:

    Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
    Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC)
    PO Box 518
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Website: http://www.eiabc.edu.et/

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    Dr. Heyaw Terefe, Scientific Director

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Student/staff mobility, PhD, study degree development (finished in 2018)

  • Revival of earthen building in Germany

    Project description:
    Industrialization in Europe largely replaced earthen building with the increasing use of concrete and steel construction. Climate change now demands sustainable and competitive alternatives in the construction sector. The building material clay is excellently suited for this purpose.

    Contact:
    Prof. Alexander Furche
    Faculty of Architecture and Landscape
    Institute of Design and Construction - Department of Structures
    alexander.furche@iek.uni-hannover.de


    Partner university/institution:

    Ecole Nationale d'Architecture de Tétouan- Morocco
    AV. Baghdad, Touabel soufla, BP: 4403, 93040, Tétouan
    www.enat.ma

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    M. Hecham El Kharraz

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Excursion, workshops

  • Drivers of Change: Understanding the Process of Complex Technology Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa

    (Research is linked to the projects: (i) Shrubs for Change and (ii) Piloting incentive-based agricultural portfolios for nutrition and resilience in Zambia by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), funded by BMZ)

    Project description:
    The research aims at identifying determinants of the adoption process of complex agroforestry technologies and the analysis of specific incentives regarding the promotion of complex innovations. Further, small-scale farmers’ aspirations and their respective impacts on the adoption behavior will be analyzed.

    Website of the project:
    https://www.iuw.uni-hannover.de/de/forschung/projekte/

    Contact:
    Luzia Deißler
    Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade
    deissler@iuw.uni-hannover.de
    Supervisor: Ulrike Grote, grote@iuw.uni-hannover.de

    Partner university/institution:

    World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
    Nairobi, Kenya
    https://www.worldagroforestry.org

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    Dr. Kai Mausch
    World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Student/staff mobility, PhD, study degree development (finished in 2018)

  • Interrelations between refugee and host relations in rural Zambia: A dynamic agent-based modeling application

    Project description:
    The core goal of the LYIG project is to investigate the interrelations between refugee and host communities in rural Zambia in the context of the rising number of refugee movements and the corresponding challenge to create long-term solutions. The project develops and applies computer-based simulation models for scientific analyses based on collected case study area data.

    Project website:
    https://www.iuw.uni-hannover.de/en/research/projects/research-projects/projects/interrelations-between-refugee-and-host-communities-in-rural-zambia/

    https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/forschung/wiss-nachwuchs/postdocs/bisher-gefoerderte-projekte/

    https://www.uni-hannover.de/de/universitaet/aktuelles/presseinformationen/detail/news/programm-leibniz-young-investigator-grants-foerdert-uebergang-von-der-promotion-zur-professur-1/

    Contact
    Dr. Steven Gronau
    Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade
    gronau@iuw.uni-hannover.de

    Partner university/institution:
    University of Zambia (UNZA), https://www.unza.zm/
    Zambian Ministry of Agriculture, https://www.agriculture.gov.zm/
    Zambian Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, https://www.mfl.gov.zm/
    Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI), https://www.agriculture.gov.zm/?page_id=4821

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    Dr. Beson Chishala, UNZA
    Dr. Pamela Marinda, UNZA
    Stanford Nkhoma, Ministry of Agriculture
    Wages Mambo, Ministry of Agriculture
    Davies Banda, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock
    Dr. Martin Chiona, ZA

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Involvement students (Bachelor, Master) in research
    Cooperation in field research and implementation activities
    Capacity building programs (workshops, summer school, etc.)



  • Impact of wastewater irrigation of vegetables on physiological parameters, susceptibility to soilborne pathogens and soil properties (DFG funded)

    Project description:
    Increasing lack of potable water in several developing countries and more general in arid countries leads to the use of different wastewaters for irrigation of crops, vegetables and fruit trees. This research was initiated to investigate in a short-term assessment the effects of irrigation with wastewater in changing the physicochemical properties of the soil, the composition and the aggressiveness of the pathogens as well as the increasing risk of contaminating vegetable crops with heavy metals ions. This study will be followed by a long-term study carried out in Egypt under the same topic but with wastewater different in nature and origin.

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. Jutta Papenbrock
    Institut of Botany
    Jutta.Papenbrock@botanik.uni-hannover.de

    Partner university/institution:
    Cairo University, Egypt

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    Prof. Dr. Salama A. Ouf
    saoufeg@yahoo.com
    Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Mobility of both PIs

  • Impact of (eco) tourism on vulnerable ecosystems in the South of Egypt

    Project description:
    The PhD study includes a series of field surveys of dugongs and seagrass meadows inside a lagoon of Gorgonia House Reef and the nearby offshore seagrass beds to study dugongs habitat use, such as distribution, home range and core habitat, feeding behavior in sheltered and exposed areas, influence of the tourism activities on the dugong feeding, utilization of the inshore seagrass habitat as nursery areas for dugong calves, vocal communication and the acoustic recognition. These observations will provide critical information for space-based conservation of the dugong along the coast of the Egyptian Red Sea coast generally and Gorgonia House Reef specifically. Based on these and other data it will be analyzed whether the house reef is safer and cleaner with the activity of tourism under professional management.

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. Jutta Papenbrock
    Institut of Botany
    Jutta.Papenbrock@botanik.uni-hannover.de

    Partner university/institution:
    Abu Ghosoun Community Development Association (AG-CDA)/Gorgonia Beach Resort

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    MSc Amgad El Shaffai:
    aelshaffai@yahoo.com;
    Johannes Girardi:
    jg@gorgoniabeach.net

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    PhD study at the LUH, Faculty of Natural Sciences (Title: Studies on the Dugong's habitat at the house reef of the Gorgonia Beach Resort, Red Sea, Egypt); further development of a concept of ecotourism close to the Wadi El Gemal park in the South of Egypt especially involving plant species (such as Balanites aegyptiaca).

  • UPSCALE (EU H2020) Sustainable agriculture, ecology, ecosystem services, social-ecological systems, climate change, resilience

    Project description:
    Push–pull technology is a strategy for controlling agricultural pests by using repellent ('push') and trap ('pull') crops. The EU-funded UPSCALE project aims to scale up the understanding and applicability of push–pull from individual fields to farm, landscape and regional scales, and from cereal to other crops and cultivation systems. By harnessing the benefits of push–pull technology, UPSCALE will catalyse the design and widespread implementation of climate-smart and environmentally friendly food production in East Africa and beyond.

    Project Website:
    https://upscale-h2020.eu/

    Contact:
    Emily Poppenborg Martin
    Institut of Geobotany
    poppenborg-martin@geobotanik.uni-hannover.de

    Partner university/institution:
    See list on cordis: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/861998

    Type of cooperation activities (student/staff mobility):
    Student co-supervision, collaboration within the project, student exchange (planned)

  • Anglophone African literatures and cultures

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. Jana Gohrisch
    Jana.gohrisch@engsem.uni-hannover.de

    Partner university/institution:
    Department of English
    Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai (Niger State), Nigeria

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    Prof. Sule Emmanuel Egya
    Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Student and staff exchange

  • Extended π-systems based on bidirectional extension of arenes

    Project description:
    Ring opening / cyclization sequences of dicyclobutabenzene derivatives will be used to form oligoacenes. These deserve interest as model componds in medicinal chemistry as well as in materials sciences.

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. Holger Butenchön
    Institut für Organische Chemie
    holger.butenschoen@mbox.oci.uni-hannover.de
    (retirement on 30.09.2021)

    Partner university/institution:
    Cairo University, Egypt
    https://cu.edu.eg/Home

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    Prof. Dr. Ismail Abdelshafy Abdelhamid (Chemistry Department, AvH-Fellow)
    Prof. Dr. Amr Abdelmoniem (Chemistry Department, AvH Fellow, z. Z. als solcher in Hannover)

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Staff mobility based on AvH fellowships and research coopperation.

  • HEAR Africa! Extending life and education opportunities of hearing impaired children in Tanzania

    Themes:
    hearing impairment, capacity building, Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS), epidemiology, risk factors, Speech Language Therapy (SLT), Tanzania, bilateral cooperation

    Project description:
    The aim of the project is to improve the participation and education opportunities of hearing-impaired children in sub-Saharan Africa via implementation of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and SLT services in the partner clinics and by building and expanding qualification structures for capacity building in the field.

    Prtoject website:
    https://www.leibnizlab-communication.uni-hannover.de/en/research/projects/hear-africa/

    https://www.ifs.uni-hannover.de/en/departments/sprach-paedagogik-und-therapie/forschungsprojekte/global-issues-of-slt/

    Contact:
    Prof. Dr. habil. Ulrike Lüdtke (Head of project), ulrike.luedtke@ifs.uni-hannover.de
    Louisa Johanningmeier (project coordinator), louisa.johanningmeier@ifs.uni-hannover.de
    In cooperation with the German Hearing Centre (Deutsches HörZentrum (DHZ)) of the Medical University Hannover (MHH):
    Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr. med. Thomas Lenarz (Director of DHZ)
    Prof. Dr. med. Anke Lesinski-Schiedat
    PD Dr. Angelika Illg

    Partner university/institution:
    Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Daressalam, Tansania https://www.muhas.ac.tz/
    Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), Moshi, Tansania https://www.kcmc.ac.tz/
    Sebastian Kolowa Memorial University (SEKOMU), Lushoto, Tansania https://www.sekomu.ac.tz/

    Name of the researcher based at the partner university/institution in Africa:
    Dr. Enica Richard, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)

    Type of cooperation (student/staff mobility):
    Capacity building in ENT and SLT
    Capacity building in international research
    Curriculum development in undergraduate and postgraduate SLT program