EIMAS Closing Event

Opening Session

• H.E. Ambassador Dr Salah S. Hammad, Head of the African Governance Architecture and the African Peace and Security Architecture (AGA-APSA) Secretariat, African Union Commission
• Mirjam Straßer, EIMAS Coordinator, University of Bayreuth
• Karin Stanghed, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the African Union
• Odunola Alexander Oladeji, EIMAS Alumnus & EMA Programme Representative
• Prof. Dr Amélia Polónia, EIMAS Dean, University of Porto
• Dr Anne-Marie Meyer, EIMAS Dean, Bordeaux Montaigne University
• Dr Franz Kogelmann, EIMAS Dean, University of Bayreuth
     

11:30 - 12:30

Keynote: The Importance and Potential of International Alumni Networks

Prof. Dr Masresha Fetene, Co-President of the InterAcademyPartnership (IAP) and Founding Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS)

moderated by Miguel Filipe Silva, EIMAS Lecturer in History, Political and International Studies, University of Porto
   

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch Break

   
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14:30 - 16:00

Interactive Session: Steps after EIMAS - What Are the Graduates Doing Now?
   

moderated by Dr Helmut Blumbach, Former Director, Regional Office for Africa, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) & Member of the EIMAS Advisory Board
   

16:00 - 17:00

Guided Tour through the AUC Headquarters

19:00

Keynote & Round Table: African Studies in the Past, Present, and Future
   

Dr Thando Njovane, Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University

moderated by Prof. Dr Serawit Bekele Debele, EIMAS Gender & Diversity Representative and Alumna of the University of Bayreuth

Discussants:
   

• Dr Franz Kogelmann, EIMAS Dean, University of Bayreuth
• Prof. Dr Amélia Polónia, EIMAS Dean, University of Porto
• Tirsit Yetbarek Seme, Head of the Somaliland Centre for African Studies (SCAS)
     

Poster Exhibition: EIMAS MA Projects

with coffee
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10:45 - 12:45

Short Presentations of EIMAS Master Theses

moderated by Dr Mulugeta Bezabih Mekonnen, Chairman of the Center for Population Studies, College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University and Alumnus of the University of Bayreuth
   

12:45 - 14:45

Lunch Break
   
   

14:45 - 16:15

Round Table: African Joint (Research) Projects in International and Interdisciplinary Academic Networks
   

moderated by Meliha Nihan Çakır & Oluwayemisi Ojo, EIMAS Alumni

Discussants:
   

• Dr Sabrina Maurus, Scientific Coordination Office Bavaria-Africa, Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR)
• Dr Constance Perrin-Joly, Director, French Center for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE)
• Yenesew Alene Belew, Co-Ambassador Ethiopia, African Students and Alumni Forum (ASAF)
• Girma Teshome, DAAD Information Point Addis Ababa, German Academic Exchange Service
        

16:15 - 17:00

Poster Exhibition: EIMAS MA Projects

with coffee
   

Discussion: Interculturality in EIMAS: Challenges and Conquests

moderated by Alice Ribeiro, EIMAS Gender & Diversity Representative, University of Porto
   

Azmari Night at Fendika Cultural Center
(self-paid)

Presentations of Current PhD / Research Projects of EIMASters
   

moderated by Dr Dereje Feyissa Dori, Associate Professor, College of Social Sciences, Addis Ababa University
   

Forum: International (Alumni) Institutions

with coffee
   

11:15 - 12:45

Interactive Session: African Climate, Peace and Security within the UN-AU-EU Partnership
   

moderated by Yosr Khedr, EIMAS Alumna

Discussants:
      

• H.E. Ambassador Dr Salah S. Hammad, Head of the African Governance Architecture and the African Peace and Security Architecture (AGA-APSA) Secretariat, African Union Commission
• Evidence Tendai Kasinganeti, Climate Change, Peace and Security Advisor, United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU)
        

12:45 - 14:45

Lunch Break
   
   

14:45 - 16:45

Round Table: EIMAS Graduates and the Global Job Market

moderated by Fatima Elmardiya Ahmed & Dalitso Bruno Tobias Tembo, EIMAS Alumni

Discussants:

• Vava Angwenyi, Founder & Chief Coffaholic, Vava Coffee Ltd., Kenya & Member of the EIMAS Advisory Board
• Dr Biruk Shewadeg, Research Consultant, Amani Africa
• Dr Angelika Eder, Director, Goethe-Institut Addis Ababa
• Dr Tobias Thiel, Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) African Union
• Dr Mekdelawit Yeshitila, Head, Bavarian Office for Africa
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18:00

Networking Event & Dinner at The Social Addis / Selo Craft Tella
(EIMAS members & invited guests only)

Welcome at Goethe-Institut

   
Dr Angelika Eder, Director, Goethe-Institut Addis Ababa
   

World Café: The First Steps towards an EIMAS Alumni Network

Moderators:
   

• Yenesew Alene Belew, Co-Ambassador Ethiopia, African Students and Alumni Forum (ASAF)
• Dr Claudia Gebauer, Coordinator, afriZert, University of Bayreuth
• Dr Thando Njovane, Scholar, Rhodes University
• Tirsit Yetbarek Seme, Head of the Somaliland Centre for African Studies (SCAS)
• Dr Amanuel Tadesse, Head of Solutions Mapping, Ethiopian Accelerator Lab, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Girma Teshome, DAAD Information Point Addis Ababa, German Academic Exchange Service
     
  

12:15 - 14:15

Lunch Break & Poster Exhibition: EIMASters’ Individual Projects
   
   

14:15 - 14:45

Presentations of the Results
   
   

14:45 - 15:15

Next Steps of the EIMAS Alumni Network
   
   

15:15 - 15:30

Comfort Break
   
   

15:30 - 17:00

Closing Session
   
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17:30 - 20:30

Networking Event at the German Embassy

Discovering Addis Ababa: City Tour with EIMAS Alumni & Members
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with Abdifatah Mohamed Abdi, Saba Abraha Tsegaye & Dr Serawit Bekele Debele