1. Background
The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) is West African inter-governmental organsation funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), multilateral and bilateral partners and its West African member countries. With focus on capacity building, academic and transdisciplinary research, climate and environmental service provision, it cooperates with many agencies and universities in the region and globally to provide, a knowledge platform of excellence for its partners.
WASCAL, under the sponsorship of the Division 722 of BMBF, is pleased to announce application for its Interdisciplinary Master Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) in all fifteen (15) ECOWAS countries namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
The International Master Program in Energy and Green Hydrogen (IMP-EGH) is innovative for the West African region and it is designed to prepare the next generation to address the energy challenges of adaptation and resilience to climate change in West Africa. The program adopting the interdisciplinary approach will allow a better understanding of present-day renewable energy needs in West Africa, in a changing climate and energy transition context for sustainable solutions. The PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR GREEN HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES led by Abdou Moumouni University (UAM) of Niamey in Niger and implemented in collaboration with Julich and Aachen and other renowned African, German, and other international universities and institutions, aims at offering top-ranking students an integrated learning environment to develop skills to be qualified as Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen specialists.