Humboldt Africa Network (HumAN)
Over the past decade, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has been building cooperations with institutions of higher education on the African continent. From the 1970s onward, Humboldt was involved in a long-term and system-change resistant cooperation with Sudan in archeology which has recently taken on new and fascinating life as a result of political change. The long-term cooperation with Syria, on the other hand, has of course been suspended. These days Humboldt cooperates mainly with sub-Saharan universities.
Cooperation partners are
University of Nairobi, Kenia |
Karatina University, Kenia |
University Eduardo Montlane, Mozambique |
University of Namibia, Namibia |
University of Lagos, Nigeria |
University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal |
University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
University of Pretoria, South Africa |
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
University of Lomé, Togo |
Makerere University, Uganda |
Humboldt scholars are convinced that working with scholars at universities in developing and BRICS states is an important part of scholarly exchange. Scientists and students from the African continent enrich research and teaching at HU with their ideas and initiatives; HU scientists and students contribute to scholarship in African states; they all put scientific inquiry in the center of their endeavors. Differences and impulses created in different higher education landscapes generate unexpected perspectives, new questions and results. Solving those transdisciplinary problems is what is most important.
Cooperation is focused on the following field:
- Law
- History, Social and Cultural Sciences
- Agricultural sciences
- Geography
- Teacher Training
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Theology
In order to make the quality of cooperation more visible and to more firmly integrate teaching into scientific endeavor, Humboldt-Universität has decided to start a summer school HUB in Capetown in July 2020 which will from now on be a yearly highlight for shared research and training with partners from the African continent. Three parallel scientific workshops will be followed by three summer schools for advanced students and Ph.D. candidates from Germany and from African states. For 2020 the following topics will be set up:
2020 sind folgende Themen vorgesehen:
- Precarity, Welfare, and Labor Rights after WWII (based on the ongoing re:work project at HU - http://rework.hu-berlin.de/aktuelles.html)
- Between Cosmology and Community: Religion and Sustainable Development
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Societies in Transition: Teaching and Learning in Turbulent Times
All summerschools will work with digital components both before they start and during the summerschool.