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Volkswagen Foundation Summer School 2022 for Young African Leaders

Volkswagen Foundation Summer School 2022 for Young African Leaders (Fully Funded)

The VW-summer school series intends to train participants on the knowledge and skills of how landscape ecology can contribute to improve the status of achieving the SDGs and the AU Agenda 2063 objectives. The summer school will entail joint engagement of scientists and practitioners from urban, regional and national planning as well as from governmental institutions who are engaged in socio-ecological system development from multiple perspectives.

Requirements

  1. Be a PhD student, Postdoctoral student or early career scientist from based in Sub Saharan Africa or Germany.
  2. Consistently participate in all planned webinar series
  3. Motivation and interest in Landscape Ecology, Cities and Urban Ecological Resilience
  4. Brief CV (Maximum 2 pages)

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Target group

  • African countries and Germany.
  • The summer school will be a mixture of early career and young scientists as well as established scholars and input providers from practice, such as policy makers/representatives of governmental institutions preparing and implementing environmental policies, planners, actors from business and economy and local knowledge holders.
  • For the young scientists, the focus will be on PhD and postdoctoral students from African and German institutions.

Funding

  • The summer school series are fully funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, which will cover costs for travel, accommodation, Visa and meals physical meeting in Kampala in July 2022.

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Programme Details

  • The 1st summer school will consist of three webinars and a physical meeting which will take place in Uganda in July 2022.
  • The webinars will cover the theoretical underpinning of landscape ecology with a view bringing all the participants to the same level of understanding of landscape ecology and its principles.
  • Webinar 1: May 2022
  • Webinar 2: June 2022
  • Physical meeting (Kampala, Uganda): 18 -24 July 2022 ****Note:

Application Procedure:

  • Applications to participate in the first summer school should be submitted online at vwsummerschool.mak.ac.ug. The application deadline is April 22, 2022.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the VW Summer School 2022

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