Le Président de la République, Chef de l’Etat, SEM Mohamed Bazoum a reçu hier après-midi une délégation conduite par l’ambassadeur de la République fédérale d’Allemagne auprès du Niger, SE Hermann Nicolai. Cette délégation comprennant entre autres le Commissaire pour l’innovation et l’hydrogène vert et le ministre en charge de l’Enseignement Supérieur est venue présenter au Continue Reading
WORKSHOP: WASCAL AND PIK TO VALIDATE A STUDY ON CLIMATE RISK ANALYSIS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN BURKINA FASO The negative impacts of Climate change on human being are getting more and more alarming, leading decision makers to request for more comprehensive and adapted solutions to the negative and unpredictable effects Continue Reading
WASCAL, with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has awarded full scholarship in International Master’s Programme in Energy and Green Hydrogen to 60 students from all 15 West African countries. Speaking at the official launch in Niamey, Niger which brought together government officials, diplomatic corps and the academic community together, Continue Reading
WASCAL-Cabo Verde is delighted to announce to all the partners, students, and collaborators the endorsement as Decade Project in the framework of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, specifically in the Early Career Ocean Professionals Programme (ECOP). This recognition triggers our responsibility and commitment to the West African Science Service Centre 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
Developing Resilience to Climate Change and Achieving Food Security in West Africa: Follow up Action from the UN Food Systems Summit.
Co-Organized by West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) and IFPRI
The University of Rostock (UR) and the West African Service Center for Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) seek to apply portions of their budgetary allocation under the waste to energy as a sustainable solution for Ghana project (In Gyankobaa, Kumasi) to procure the following items. Notice is hereby served for all interested vendors/parties to put in Continue Reading
The University of Rostock (UR) wishes to apply a portion of its budgetary allocation under the waste to energy as a sustainable solution for Ghana project to procure the following equipment according to the lots Below for its pilot waste to energy power plant at Gyankobaa in the Ashanti Region of Ghana; Lot 1. Plastic Continue Reading
By Suleiman Aisha Abba Many people do not know what climate change is, either due to ignorance, false assumption or deliberate misinformation, which has led to a series of myths about climate change. In this article, we tackle the subject from a different viewpoint, discussing what climate change is, its causes, and, its effects on Continue Reading
Vegetation Mapping Using Google Earth Engine 19th – 20th October 2021 AgRAIN – Remote Sensing Workshop AgRAIN is a research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to develop adaption strategies for agriculture to climate change in Burkina Faso. Part of the project is a hands-on remote sensing training workshop to Continue Reading
The University of Rostock (UR), the overall coordinator and WASCAL (the Ghanaian Coordinator) oversee the day-to-day activities of WASTE-TO-ENERGY project, a BMBF funded project in collaboration with Project Management Jülich (PTJ). The University of Rostock wishes to apply a portion of its budgetary allocation under the waste to energy as a sustainable solution for Ghana Continue Reading