NEWS & UPDATES

PROMOTING CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY IN WEST AFRICA

Ghana, 8 April 2025 H. E. M. Alpha B. Barry, Chair of the WASCAL Ministerial Council, and Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation from the Republic of Guinea has Continue Reading

ALL ABOARD FOR THE THIRD “FLOATING UNIVERSITY”

Master’s students from West Africa to study and research aboard the POLARSTERN The German research vessel POLARSTERN sets sail from the subtropical Mindelo, Cape Verde, on a special expedition. On Continue Reading

INTENSIFYING SUPPORT FOR WOMEN LEADING CLIMATE ACTION IN WEST AFRICA

As we mark International Women’s Day, we are reminded of the profound role women play in shaping our world, including their leadership in addressing climate change. Women are not just Continue Reading

WASCAL DONATES €450,000 CLEANING EQUIPMENT TO SONABEL TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF BURKINA-FASO’s SOLAR POWER PLANT

Burkina Faso’s Zagtouli Solar Power Plant, a flagship project in the country’s energy transition, has received advanced cleaning equipment worth €450,000 from WASCAL under the PV2H project. The equipment was Continue Reading

WHO WE ARE

WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of ten West African countries and Germany.

OUR MISSION

To provide information and knowledge at the local, national, and regional levels to its West African member countries to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change and devise integrated mid and long-term options to build up resilient and productive socio-ecological landscapes. We do this through capacity building and environmental services in West Africa