The Chair of Sociology of Diversity of the Technical University of Munich under Full Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Wacker received high-ranking attendance. On Thursday, May 9 and Monday May 13, a delegation from Kenya was a guest.
Prof. Dr. Marianne W. Maghenda is Dean of the School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Science at the Taita Taveta University (TTU) (Mariwenyi, Kenya), Prof. Dr. Maarifa A. Mwakumanya, is Dean of the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Pwani University (PU) (Kilifi, Kenya), Prof. Dr. Halimu Shauri is Dean of the Department of Social Sciences at the PU. "The three deans have been co-operative partners for many years. With both universities, the TUM holds a Memorandum of Understanding. Over the past years, we were also able to repeatedly win Prof. Shauri as a guest professor at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences," explains Prof. Wacker.
Scientific exchange & request for a summer school
The subject of the one-day meeting was a scientific exchange concerning the growing global research efforts on the topics of 'Global Health' and 'One Health'. After two successful conferences held in Kenya in the years 2018 and 2019, a mutual request for a summer-school meeting was worked out under the central idea of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Members of the TUM Graduate School, together with East Africa scientists, could thereby discuss questions about the topics of 'sustainability' and the 'quality of the water supply' from the perspective of both the TUM as well as the young Kenyan scientists, and could experience local laboratories and organizations for environmental concerns as well as for research on site.
In addition, the coordination of further common activities took place in the fields of research, qualification, and in social as well as cultural communication.
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E-mail: Elisabeth.Wacker(at)tum.de
Text: Dr. Fabian Kautz
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