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Welcome to YEEES

If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven’t spend a night with a mosquito.”

(African Proverb)

Our project wants to encourage people to contribute to societal change in a variety of ways. Funded by the BMBF and the DAAD we focus on building international and interdisciplinary networks in research and teaching.

Opportunities for applications

Thank you very much for your interest in a YEEES Research Grant stay for Masters and PhDs. Given the current situation around the world travelling and conducting research in the YEEES partner countries is not possible at the moment, therefore we will not be allocating any grants at the moment. However, the YEEES Team is glad to receive your applications and have them ready for our jury’s evaluation as soon as we are able to restart the grants programm. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us hello@yeees-project.org

YEEES Digital Researchers Camp

YEEES-PhD / Postdoc Research Stay

Research Grants for Master Theses

News

YEEES Final Conference! 26. November 2020
Research Stay from Master Grantee Eva Shitaatala – Germany 2018 13. November 2020
Research Stay from Master Grantee Daniela Rössing – Mozambique 2019 27. October 2020
International Research Colloquium on Female Entrepreneurship. Research group hosted by Miriam Gerlach. 19. October 2020
Event by Research Group Smart communities: “Digitalisation solutions for smart communities” on 5th november 2020 16. October 2020
Research Stay from Master Grantee Marie Sophie Röder – South Africa 2019 12. October 2020
YEEES Research Center Digital Colloquium 15. September 2020
Research Stay from Master Grantee Obrukevwe Okuah – Germany 2020 7. September 2020
Research Stay from Master Grantee Lisa Eicke – Namibia 2020 5. August 2020
Research Stay from Master Grantee Matthias Wehe – South Africa 2019/20 29. July 2020

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Today we are happy to present the stay of our form

Today we are happy to present the stay of our former grantee Eva, visiting germany back in 2018 for her research stay. During her stay in Lueneburg, she conducted research on opportunities for waste management in Africa, specifically waste to energy technologies as a potential model for Namibia.

As always a short excerpt from her blog entry:

The realisation of value addition to solid waste birthed the evolution of waste to energy. Waste to energy is an innovative way of converting waste into useful energy and by-products.

Currently, the world is responsible for generating 2.01 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste annually. Due to population increase, the current waste generated is expected to double by 2020. At the same time, it is expected that, waste generation in Africa will tripled amounting to 3.40 billion tonnes.

Despite the technology around for century, it is only practiced in Europe, Asia and America. According to (World Energy Council, 2013)’s market analysis, Europe has the largest and sophisticated market for waste to energy technologies.

Therefore, to understanding opportunities offered by waste to energy technologies in Africa prompt Ms. Eva Ndamono Shitaatala to undertake a study on waste to energy in Namibia.

To read the full entry, please follow the link in our bio:
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#YEEES #yeeesconference #wastemanagement #wastetoeenergy #wastetoenergysolution #researchlife #leuphanauniversity #leuphanauniversität #DAAD

We want to remind you about the the upcoming secon

We want to remind you about the the upcoming second session of the Colloquium on Female Entrepreneurship, held next week on thursday the 12th of November. Researchers, PhD candidates and master students are invited to partake on the Collouqium starting at 14:00 CET.

For this Colloquium apl. Prof.in. Dr Stephanie Birkner from the University of Oldenburg will be speaking about the Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship. After her presentation a discussion will be lead by everybody.

For further information and to register for free, follow the link in our bio:
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#YEEES #femalentrepreneur #femaleentrepreneurship #socialentrepreneurship #femalesocialentrepreneurs #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #researcher #researchlife #businessresearch

Yesterday the research group on Female Entrepreneu

Yesterday the research group on Female Entrepreneurship held their colloquium on female social entrepreneurship and relational networks. 🎓

Coincidantally, one of our previous grantess conducted her research stay focussing on this field. Our former grantee Daniela travelled to #Mozambique back in 2019 for her research stay. During her stay her research focused on small-scale female entrepreneurs in rural areas of Mozambique.

As always, here a short excerpt from her blog entry:

My name is Daniela Rössing and I studied the master's degree course "Intercultural Personnel Development and Communication Management" at the university of Jena. In 2019, I got the opportunity to spend three months in Maxixe (Mozambique) to collect data for my thesis. Additionally, I took part in the project STEP (Student Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion) as research assistant at the local university. Both missions let me dive into the area of entrepreneurial activities – with the focus on African, especially Mozambican, economy and society.

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If you are a researcher, PhD candidate or master student and looking for new research opportunities or input for your own research, we want to remind you of our ongoing researchers camp.

Currently the research groups focus on these topics:

Digitilisation Solutions for Smart Communities
Next event 5th November

Female Entrepreneurship
Next event 12th November

Ecovillages and Resilient Lifestyle
Next event 25th November

For additional information and to sign up, you can look up the previous posts and visit our news and opportunities section on our website.

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For the full entry follow the the link in our bio 👉
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#YEEES #DAAAD #mozambique #femaleentrepreneurs #femalentrepreneurship #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #researcher #researchlife #businessresearch

And here we are again with yet another research co

And here we are again with yet another research colloquium. This time we're happy to invite you to the International Research Colloquium on Female Entrepreneurship.

The last years have seen a development from using gender as a variable and comparing women with a 'male norm', towards using gender s a lens and applying feminist and gender theories to analyze this conflunce. Thereforde, the colloquium is aimed at broadening and further develop insights and knlowdge in this field.

Researchers, master students and PhD candidates are welcome to join the event by following the link in our bio.
@yeeesproject

The colloquium will be held in three sessison on the following dates, focusing on:

Female Social Entrpreneurship and Relational Networks
26th October 2020, 14:00 CET

Promotion of Female Entrepreneurship
12th November 2020, 14:00 CET

Female (Social) Entrepreneurs and their experiences
12th January 2021, 14:00 CET

#YEEES #femalentrepreneur #femaleentrepreneurship #socialentrepreneurship #femalesocialentrepreneurs #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #researcher #researchlife #businessresearch

Exactly one month ago we anounced the start of the

Exactly one month ago we anounced the start of the YEEES Researchers Camp, a series of digital meetings on a variety of research topics. As you probably noticed, we shared invitations of the different colloquia on our social media channels.

Today we're happy to invite interested researchers, master- and PhD students to the second colloquium on Ecovillages and Resilient Lifestyles, which will be held on the 21th of October 16:00 CET in collaboration with the Global Ecovillage Network (@ecovillage).

Dr. Rebeca Roysen will be the speaker on the topic Ecovillages as sustainability "classrooms". Addtionally, Dr. Daniel Greenberg, a GEN regional representitive and author, will also be participating.

If you want to participate on the upcoming second event or follow up events, please fill out the form following the link in our bio.
@yeeesproject

#YEEES #sustainableresearch #globalecovillagenetwork #ecolise #resilientlifestyle #sustainablecommunities #sustainableeducation #sustainablelifstyle #sustainablelifestyles #nelsonmandelauniversity #leuphana #leuphanauniversität #univechta #unioldenburg #universityofnamibia

For the upcoming month, the #YEEES invites interes

For the upcoming month, the #YEEES invites interested researchers and students to participate in the research colloquium on digitalisation solutions for #smartcommunities. The colloquium is organized by the #NelsonMandelaUniversity, a partner university of YEEES. During the event the following topics will be presented:

The role of ICT in empowering the disadvantaged presented by Prof. Wallace Chigona

Value and Decision Making in Smart Communities presented by Ms. Anthea van der Hoogen and Dr. Ife Fashoro

Tools for Analysing Social Media Data for Smart Health and Smart Services presented by Mr. Obrukevwe Okuah

After the presentations questions can be asked during a Q&A session.

The Colloquium will be held on the 5th November 11:00 – 13:00 (SAT/CAT). If you are interested to participate, you can register by writing to: Brenda.scholtz@mandela.ac.za

#nelsonmandelauniversity #ictsolutons #smartcommunity #cybersecurity #informationtechnologystudents #informationtechnology #communicationtechnology #informationandcommunicationtechnology #socialmediadata

It has been a while since we last introduced you i

It has been a while since we last introduced you into the research of our grantees.
While this series of posts is slowly reaching its end, we still have interesting stays left to show you.

For this week we're happy to give you some insights into the research of Marie Röder in #capetownsouthafrica, who took a closer look into what actually drives social entrepreneurs.

Making profit for a purpose, being a conscious businessperson, leveraging economic activities to achieve greater good for the broader society – high hopes and expectations are attached to social entrepreneurship. This is especially the case where governments struggle to effectively tackle socio-economic problems and where NGOs lack the necessary funds to expand their activities. From upcycling and urban greening to innovative educational programmes and sustainable tourism ventures, the causes supported by social entrepreneurs and the business models they adopt are manifold. But what sparks the idea of setting up a social enterprise and how do aspiring founders of social businesses put their aim into practice? What kind of resources do they need and on whose support can they rely?

My time as a YEEES Master Scholar started with all these questions in mind. It is evident that such an issue can hardly be approached in a quantitative way, based on numbers and statistics. It requires the stories of those people who went through the social entrepreneurial journey themselves and having conversations with them.

As always, for the full entry you can follow the link in our bio 👉
@yeeesproject

#YEEES #daad #southafrica #socialentrepreneurship #socialentrepreneurs #capetownentrepreneurs

Last week a variety of resarchers and students hel

Last week a variety of resarchers and students held the first research center meeting. Today we want to inform you about one of the groups that have formed, doing research on "Different ways in which people have been impacted by, and responded to the #COVID19 lockdown regulations."

The first workshop will be on the 6th October from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST/GMT+2.
To present their research and practical work on how the lockdown has been handled, we are very happy to have Prof. Andre Calitz, Prof Jean Greyling, Nomsa Tsotetsi and Cornelius Greyling as speakers.

If you are interested to participate, you can join up until the 5th of October following the link in our bio.

#YEEES #nelsonmandelauniversity #universidadpedagógica #univechta #leuphanauniversität #unioldenburg #sustainableresearch #research #researcher #coding #learncoding #covidlockdown2020 #covidlockdown

We are happy to inform you about our upcoming YEEE

We are happy to inform you about our upcoming YEEES Research Center Colloquium.

On the 28th of September from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, researchers, PhD- and master students will have the chance to get new input for their own research ideas. At the YEEES Research Center Colloquium you will get involved in one of our research groups, acquire new input for your research question and/or papers, build a network of international researchers, brainstorm about ideas for papers, co-author publications and benefit from a peer-support system concerning your research idea.

Currently, a research group on Ecvoillages and Resilient Lifestyles has already formed and will have their first meeting on the 23rd of September. If you are interested in participating, you can also sign up for this event.

For additonal information and to sign up, please follow the link in our bio
@yeeesproject

#YEEES #nelsonmandelauniversity #universidadpedagógica #univechta #leuphanauniversität #unioldenburg #sustainableresearch #globalecovillagenetwork #ecolise #resilientlifestyle #sustainablecommunities #femalepreneur #femalepreneurship #entrepreneurship #gamesforlearning #entrepreneurialeducation

This week we are happy to present you another of o

This week we are happy to present you another of our grantees from 2020, Lisa Eicke. Her research focused on the role of governmental and non-governmental organizations involved with climate change adaption in #Windhoek, #namibia🇳🇦 .
Some parts of her entry:

Namibia is a semi-dry country that is particularly vulnerable towards climate change. It has been characterized by high variability of rainfall and temperatures leading to persistent droughts and scarcity of water. This situation increases the need for climate change adaptation measures to prevent the escalation of the crisis. Adaptation can be implemented by governmental as well as non-governmental actors.

However, due to lack of research it is not clear which actors are better equipped to implement climate change adaptation, especially in the urban context. Therefore, I decided to focus my master thesis on the following question: How does adaptive capacity of local governmental and non-governmental organizations vary who are involved with climate change adaptation in Windhoek, Namibia?

Thanks to #YEEES I got the opportunity of a two-month research stay in Namibia from 2 February to 41 March 2020.

To tackle my research question, I conducted 12 interviews with local governmental and non-governmental organizations that are involved with climate change adaptation. To identify relevant organizations, I relied on my contact at the University of Namibia that was referred to me through YEEES.

For the full blog entry, as always follow the link in our bio 👉
@yeeesproject

#windhoekcity #climatechange #daad #yeees #yeeesconference

We are happy to introduce you another of our grant

We are happy to introduce you another of our grantees: Obrukevwe Okuah.

I’ve always wanted a chance to visit Europe for research and networking, and when the YEEES research grant was advertised, I applied immediately. I’m Obrukevwe Okuah, I completed my master’s degree in Computing Science from the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. My research was topic was “A Social Media Method for Eliciting the Worldviews of Millennials on the Coastal and Marine Environment”.

As always, for the full blog entry you can follow the link in our bio
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#yeees #nelsonmandelauniversity #univechta #yeeesconference #daad

As we introduced you into the game of BOATS, we re

As we introduced you into the game of BOATS, we return to presenting you our different Grantees from the last years. This week we like to introduce you to Inken, who conducted her research stay in South Africa back in 2018.

Her master topic back then was to a case study on the valuing of peri-urban agricultural land in the city of Cape Town.

There I was, at the African Centre for Cities, sitting at a table and too excited to even start. I looked at the UCT card, which would allow me to enter the university buildings, and felt special to be affiliated as a visiting academic. Still, I felt more like an eager student than an academic. I was especially enthusiastic to visit the area that I had read so much about prior to coming to the city of Cape Town and to talk to the people involved in the decision-making of the area.

For the full report follow the link in our bio 👉
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#yeees #daad #southafrica #unioldenburg #univechta #yeeesconference

From the 18th to 25th July, young students had the

From the 18th to 25th July, young students had the chance to participate in a virtual tournament of BOATS. The game running on android teaches young children the basics of coding without the need of a computer. Alternatively, a card game version does also exist. While teaching coding it does also create awareness on the issue of environmental pollution.

Over 490 students from 956 schools across South Africa participated for incentives worth over R60000, which included free data, tablets and cash for learners. The participants of the virtual tournament were this time directly involved in providing #COVID19 related content.

Additionally, for every participant R15 were donated to the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds @sanccob. With all those participants the tournament concluded with a donation over R9000.

The game is officially part of the YEEES project with a focus on education under the topic of resilient communities. Thus BOATS and two more games with a similar approach named TANKS and RANGERS were one of the case studies in the 2019 Summer Camp in South Africa.

Since 2017 Prof. Jean Greyling and his team at Nelson Mandela University reached over 20 000 learners mainly using TANKS and did also receive international recognition. A speak was planned at UNESCO’s Mobile Learning week back in March, which was unfortunately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information about the tournament and games visit the facebook page of Games powered by Tangibl. The link is in our bio 👉
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#nelsonmandelauniversity #mandeladay2020 #codingforkids #yeees #yeeesconference

Before we will present some of the projects camp p

Before we will present some of the projects camp participants were involved in, we will first present you another of our grantees: Matthias, who conducted his research stay in Port Elizabeth and Cape Town #southafrica, taking a closer look into the role of intercultural trainings for south African organizations. 🎓

Some parts of his blog entry:

Hey! My name is Matthias, and I am a final year student from Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. I am studying an interdisciplinary master’s program called ‘Public Economics, Law and Politics.’ One year ago, I found out about the opportunity to apply for the YEEES research grant that funds research stays for a master’s thesis in one of three countries in southern Africa.
This is how it went:

My master’s thesis has a quantitative approach to approach the topic of intercultural training in South Africa. I want to use South Africa as a country example to analyze the relationship between different dimensions of intercultural preparation and the successful outcome of an intercultural experience.

In the beginning, it was not that easy to get interview partners to agree on a meeting. Especially the most famous employers near Port Elizabeth were not willing to give an interview for me. But with some help of people I met and others that I contacted beforehand, I was able to have my first interviews quite soon. The more meetings I had, the more contacts I received.

For the full entry and more astonishing photos follow the link in our bio 👉
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#YEEES #yeeesconference #daad #leuphana #leuphanauniversity #leuphanauniversität #interculturaltraining

This week we're happy to introduce you one of our

This week we're happy to introduce you one of our grants from 2019, who conducted her stay in #namibia🇳🇦 and #southafrica🇿🇦 taking a deeper look into the local culture 🎓🎨:

Marie

My name is Marie Fürste and I am a student of the Master’s program Culture, Arts & Media at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. As a candidate for the YEEES Master Grant, I got the wonderful opportunity to travel to Namibia and South Africa in order to conduct research for my master’s thesis. With my academic focus on cultural entrepreneurship and the role of art and culture in development processes, I was keen to gain insight into the local cultural sectors.

Considering the conflicting histories of colonization and occupation in both Namibia and South Africa, as well as the socio-economic and cultural consequences up to the present day, I wondered if and how art can be a catalyst for social change? What are the transformational capabilities of cultural enterprises? And what is the add-value of understanding cultural initiatives as entrepreneurial ventures?

With those questions in mind, I had the chance to look at two initiatives more closely during my research stay from September 2019 to January 2020: The Namibian Arts Association (NAA)(@namibianartsassociation) in Windhoek and the South African Social Impact Arts Prize.

For the full blog entry, follow the link in our bio 👉 @yeeesproject

#yeees #daad #yeeesconference #NAA #culturalentrepreneurship #leuphana

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