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27-01-25
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The AgroVal Project focuses on transforming agro-industrial residues through the integration of food, bioproducts, and bioenergy. It aims to utilize agricultural waste within the bioeconomy framework by producing value-added products from sisal and coffee production systems.
Two weeks ago (12–15 August), Sylvie Namwase and Ole Wæver delivered a co-keynote, “University collaborations as agents of equity in a persistently unequal world,” at the SANORD Southern African Nordic Centre conference Knowledge Economies in a Changing World in Aarhus.
Excited to be participating in today’s Media Café at UN City, organized by the Danida Fellowship Centre and hosted by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.
Gestational diabetes is on the rise in Vietnam, affecting 1 in 4 women. Read more
What a wonderful week in Nairobi with our Danida Fellowship Centre project team at Kenya Meteorological Department & University of Nairobi. Read more
We officially launched the project in Hargeisa, Somaliland, bringing together invited ministers, NGOs, partners and collaborators, and other key stakeholders. Read more
Vaccine hesitancy is not a localized issue; it is a critical global health threat. Read more
From idea and imagination to impact. Read more
Two of the AGROVAL PhD students in the line of duty, during their external stay in Denmark. Read more
Thank you to the organiser of ECAS2025 for a fantastic conference!
With a drive for more liveable, healthy, equitable, biodiverse, and resilient cities, the main objective of CONSUS is to facilitate a sustainable transformation of urban blue-green spaces in South Africa together with local communities and government actors.
The workshop focused on the application of AI in education, research, health promotion, diagnosis and treatment. The workshop was part of the VALID 2 Project led by Tine Gammeltoft on gestational diabetes in Vietnam funded by the Danida Fellowship Centre under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
Exciting news: Our Everyday Humanitarianism in Tanzania (EHTZ) policy engagement briefs are now available in Kiswahili!
The project aims to analyse and develop gender-responsive climate change resilience solutions for the hydrological, agricultural, and environmental conditions in the West Nile region of Uganda. It’s a powerful collaboration that brings together multiple disciplines, local insight, and a shared commitment to sustainable water management.
ECAS 2025 in Prague. Sharing insights about water and wastewater challenges in urban Africa, and not least, taking care of valuable friendships and developing collegiality and synergies across research projects.
The Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana – MUWUG – project visits the PRAAD archives in Cape Coast as part of developing our interdisciplinary approach.
Kicking off a greener future for rice farming in Africa! “We have just launched the Danida-funded project “Climate-Resilient and Eco-Friendly Rice for Africa”, says the Team.
On May 14, 2025, the University of Hargeisa, in partnership with the University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet), Roskilde University, the Somaliland Ministry of Health Development, and SORADI, launched the DVSOMA Project at the Ambassador Hotel, Hargeisa. Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark through the Danida Fellowship Centre, this five-year project (2024–2029) is a transformative initiative focused on mitigating climate-sensitive vector borne diseases among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somaliland.
“We are happy to share the latest edition of our newsletter, highlighting key moments from the past year. From our research dissemination event to the Usa River team workshop and other important milestones, the newsletter offers a snapshot of the progress and collaborations shaping our project.”, says the Team.
The Danida Fellowship Centre Alumni Vietnam has been awarded a Networkers Grant for 2025 for a new initiative, “Multi-stakeholder Roundtable on Coastal Plastic Waste and Public Health.”
“JUST TRANSITION is an admirable ambition of renewable energy projects in South Africa. But to what extent is this achieved and how can we improve collaborations to the benefit of communities and investors alike? These are key questions we address”, says Project PI Ulriksen.
On May 28, 2025, the University of Hargeisa proudly hosted the pre-launch event of the “More Women in Research Manifesto” — a bold initiative designed to increase the participation and visibility of women in research and academic leadership across Africa.
ENSET. It is not just a plant. It is livelihood for farmers in Ethiopia, and feeds 20 M people.
The kick-off of 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼-𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 — a five-year project funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and managed by Danida Fellowship Centre, focusing on sustainable groundwater management in Ethiopia.
On 2nd May 2025, Prof. Rewe Thomas (Dr. sci. agri.) from Pwani University was Invited to the 11th Wollo University National Research Conference, Ethiopia, where he delivered a Key Note Address on Innovations for Resilience: Addressing Challenges; Advancing Sustainable Futures, that shared insights of the Agroval Project and it’s Contribution to the Bio-Economy. Read more
The More Women in Research Asia and VALID II Research Project.
A powerful gathering of researchers and practitioners across the region. This workshop also marked the official end of the five-year research journey with the Danida Fellowship Centre-financed CERTIZENS project.
The PEPP II-project, funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and Danida Fellowship Centre, has been a learning experience – in the best and most challenging ways.
The Danish Embassy in Vietnam proudly co-hosted a seminar together with Danida Fellowship Centre on promoting more women in research.
The AgroVal project will develop technologies to valorize the important agricultural crops of coffee and sisal, in Kenya and Tanzania. Read more
More than 60 researchers from different colleges, faculties and institutes of Gulu University (GU), and researchers from the University of Hargeisa, have done a three-day training in grant proposal writing.
The Directorate of Research, Publications and Community Services, in collaboration with the School of Graduate Studies (SGS), has officially launched a 4-day training session on Reproductive Health. This initiative is part of Work Package 2 of the Building Stronger Universities 4 (BSU-IV) project, funded by Danida Fellowship Centre.
The AgroVal PhD Students Zonia Mupe and Timothy Musa and the Supervisors, Dr. Flaura kidere and Prof. Rewe Thomas (Dr. sci. agri.) at the Pwani University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Summit, Representing The AgroVal Project among other Stakeholders from Industry, Academia, Government and the Community. Read more
13 million Kenyans face significant challenges in accessing clean water. But it does not have to stay that way. In a new 10 million DKK project, researchers aim to tackle critical groundwater challenges in Turkana County, Kenya, where only 50 % of the population has access to potable water, and where high fluoride levels and salinity threaten drinking water safety.
Last week, the PEPP II research project hosted the PEPP II Conference 2025 in Accra, Ghana, which also brings us to the end of PEPP II.
Two weeks of training, testing and preparing for data collection in Uganda is coming to an end. Read more
This groundbreaking work will explore the intricate dynamics of pastoralism in response to climate change and urbanization, with a focus on markets, land use, and governance domains. Read more. Read more
Today, the Directorate of Research, Publications and Community Services, University of Hargeisa had the pleasure of welcoming the Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC) team for a productive 4-day visit aimed at further strengthening our ongoing collaboration.
How the choice of seed technology—between traditional and improved varieties—impacts crop revenue and the cost of risk in a setting characterized by high uncertainty? Read more
The Team shared the Agroval Project multi-disciplinary approach to Technology development in the areas of Food, Bio-composites and Bioenergy as solutions from Valorization of agroindustrial waste from sisal and coffee industries.
The academic Universities lose too many talented women along the way (leaky pipe syndrome). It’s time to tackle the attrition of women in academia head-on! Read more
A journey down memory lane from early Danida funded research projects headed by Ib Bygbjerg in the 90’ies to our ongoing Danida Fellowship Centre funded PreVBD project. What a privilege to be part of. Read more
For decades ISIM has engaged in malaria research, HIV and reproductive health involving PhD training, staff exchange and research infrastructure establishment with partners on the African Continent. Read more
In Ghana, more than 3 million people live off fishing, but the fish are disappearing and with it the livelihoods of millions of people. This is due to a deadly cocktail of pollution, climate change and overfishing. Listen to this 5-episode “Lyden af Videnskab” season (in Danish) examining how the different ingredients in this deadly cocktail affect the marine environment in the Gulf of Guinea. Torkel Gissel Nielsen is a professor at DTU Aqua, and lead of the Danida-funded “HOTSPOT” research project. Read more
The Danida-funded NbS4Tea project has officially entered its second year. From January 21st to 25th, 2025, a team of Danish and Ugandan researchers gathered at the Rwebitaba Research Station in Fort Portal, Uganda, for the annual workshop. Over four productive days, ongoing research was discussed, new experiments outlined, and current challenges within the project tackled. Read more
With a focus on climate-resilient tea varieties, nature-based intercropping solutions, and versatile irrigation technologies, NbS4Tea aims to tackle climate change impacts on tea yield and quality through innovative research. Read more
As part of the research for the Danida supported project SuSleather (which stands for sustainable leather), Dewan Ahsan and Jan Vang, Professors at Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, sent this update from one of their visits to a tannery outside Dhaka in Bangladesh. Read more
Competition for space is becoming intense in the world’s rapidly urbanizing cities, where basic infrastructure needs outcompete that of green space. With a drive for more liveable, healthy, equitable, biodiverse, and resilient cities, the main objective of CONSUS is to facilitate a sustainable transformation of urban blue-green spaces in South Africa together with local communities and government actors. Read more
This research aims to build resilience to mosquito-borne viral diseases in Zanzibar by preventing hospital-acquired infections through integrated mosquito control and sentinel surveillance in Zanzibar hospitals. Read more
In the equatorial East African region (EA) including Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia, agriculture accounts for 80%, with coffee and sisal as the most important crops with 600 kiloton coffee and 100 kiloton sisal ropes produced annually. The related crop processing generates huge quantities of organic residues that form the bulk of waste products from Agro-processing in the region. The AgroVal project will develop technologies to valorize the important agricultural crops of coffee and sisal. Read more
In Somaliland, the main part of the higher education system consists of four public universities and more than 20 private universities. University of Hargeisa (UoH) – established in 1999 – is the biggest with more than 7,000 registered students. Currently, Danida and the Danida Fellowship Centre is supporting the “Building Stronger Universities (BSU Phase IV (2023-2027)) programme in a partnership between UoH and Danish universities with a view to strengthen collaborative efforts in developing local institutional and research capacity. Read more
Trust in politicians and public institutions is key when it comes to access to drinking water and wastewater. The Danida-funded project “Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana” deals with researching everyday access to drinking water in urban Ghana under conditions of climate change. Read more
Reflecting on the activities of the past two weeks, in partnership with Københavns Universitet – University of Copenhagen and supported by Danida Fellowship Centre through the Building Stronger Universities (BSU-IV) program, UoH focused on transforming key areas of our curriculum and strengthening research capabilities. Read more
