Fifty-Nine students from 15 West African countries who benefitted from the WASCAL fully funded scholarship in the international master’s programme in energy and green hydrogen are currently going through a series of orientations in the Federal Republic of Germany as they begin their four-month practical work and thesis completion at Julich, RWTH Aachen University and Continue Reading
BERLIN: The Federal Minister of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF), Madam Bettina Stark Watzinger, has lauded the many successes chalked by West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted and Use (WASCAL and the Southern Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), through the partnership of BMBF over Continue Reading
WASCAL, in partnership with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, (BMBF), has officially launched the Project “Optimizing Solar PV for Green Hydrogen Production in West Africa (PV2H)”, coupled with the BIO2H and bioenergy feasibility studies in Burkina Faso, as part of strategies to contribute to the promotion of the development of green hydrogen Continue Reading
60 “MASTERS” FOR GREEN HYDROGEN FROM WEST AFRICA
With the “International Master’ s Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen” (IMP-EGH), Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University want to qualify students in West African countries for the future topic of “green hydrogen”. After a kick-off last October in Niamey/Niger, the official starting signal on the German side has now been given in Jülich. The Continue Reading
The hybrid Symposium on “Capacity Development and Research in West Africa – WASCAL and its German Partners” successfully showed the great achievements of WASCAL and its Graduate Programme. The first day of the hybrid Symposium included very critically exciting presentations of the vision and excellent development of WASCAL by Dr. Karsten Hess from the BMBF Continue Reading
A kick-off meeting between the University of Applied Sciences at Mittweida, Germany and WASCAL to commence a cooperation has been held. The delegation from the University of Applied Sciences at Mittweida was led by Prof. Ramona Kusche, WASCAL was led by the Executive Director, Dr. Moumini Savadogo, Dr. Gabin Ananou from the Project Management Agency Continue Reading
At the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Ministerial Conference held on July 22nd in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the foundation stone was laid for a new building of the WASCAL climate Competence centre. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) set up the West African Competence Centre Continue Reading