New partnership in Ghana promotes academic exchange
TU Hamburg and University of Cape Coast sign cooperation agreement
08.10.2024
Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg) and the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which is intended to facilitate student exchanges between the two institutions. As part of the five-year agreement, an exchange on possible joint research projects and innovative teaching methods is also planned. The signing event was part of the current delegation trip through Ghana, headed by Hamburg's Science Senator Katharina Fegebank.
Science Senator Katharina Fegebank: “Solutions for climate change, sustainable strategies and technologies to protect our environment - we can only find all of this together internationally. I am therefore very pleased that the signed agreement on student exchange between TU Hamburg and UCC on our delegation trip will enable new cooperation that will further deepen our ties to Ghana. The personal international exchange of students and researchers can achieve a great deal, regarding both research issues and personal development. The cooperation also underlines the successful development of TU Hamburg's profile “Engineering to face climate change”. Good luck for the upcoming projects!”
Andreas Timm-Giel, President of TU Hamburg: “The University of Cape Coast and TU Hamburg are connected by the pursuit of excellence in teaching and research, but also by major challenges we all face: Climate change does not stop at national borders. True to our motto “Engineering to face climate change”, we are committed to working with our partners to network and train the best minds for a better world and to develop solutions together. The Global South and Ghanaian universities in particular play a central role in this. We are therefore very pleased about this new cooperation.”
UCC Pro Vice-Chancellor Rosemond Boohene and TU President Andreas Timm-Giel signed the agreement in the presence of Senator Fegebank. TU Hamburg facilitates five scholarships for African students as well as travel grants for conferences and research stays at TU Hamburg for scientists from Ghana (the latter in cooperation with the TU Hamburg Foundation).
The Ghanaian capital Accra, which the Hamburg science delegation is also visiting on their current trip, is also home to the Institute for Natural Resources in Africa of the internationally active United Nations University (UNU), to which the recently founded TU Hamburg hub “Engineering to face climate change” is also affiliated. As part of its collaboration with the UNU, TU Hamburg is awarding two further doctoral scholarships to students from the Global South.
In addition to President Timm-Giel, representatives of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), the Bernhard Nocht Institute, the University of Applied Sciences (HAW), the University of Hamburg (UHH), the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the Climate Service Center Germany also accompany the Senator. Together, they visit the West African Science Center for Climate Change (WASCAL) and several leading universities in the country. These include UCC, which was founded in 1962 and today has around 78,000 students in the fields of humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, business and law. UCC is committed to innovative teaching and research and aims to train its graduates to become responsible “agents of change”.
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