Research for Development

Education & Research for International Development Cooperation

The “Education and Research for International Development Cooperation” team administers North-South cooperations in the following areas:

• Scholarship programmes
• Development research
• University cooperations
• Discussion platforms

Scholarship holders from developing countries contribute in an essential way to a strengthening of the human resources in their countries of origin and enrich the Austrian higher education and research landscape in terms of an internationalisation of sciences.

Development research is an inter- and trans-disciplinary research area. On the basis of empirical studies development-relevant analyses and problem solutions are worked out for countries, societies and regions that suffer from a weak infrastructure and are threatened by poverty. The Commission for Development Studies (KEF) supports research programmes between Austrian scientific institutions and partner institutions in the south.

University cooperations (appear) with scientific institutions in the priority countries and regions of the Austrian Development Cooperation improve the learning, teaching and research conditions in countries with a weak infrastructure and create new approaches to the international scientific community. Under the superordinate goal of reducing poverty scientific results are worked out and presented together with partners.

Discussion platforms about fundamental development policy questions are organised in Austria and abroad together with research partners of the “South”: Round tables, workshops, discussions, weblogs, newsletters, quarterly focus on specific topics, online surveys and events in the cooperation countries.

Andreas Obrecht 
Head and coordination, project administration, public relations, publications.
List of publications

Elke Stinnig  
Appear - Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education & Research for Development / Programme Officer

Julia Lichtkoppler
Appear - Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education & Research for Development / Programme Officer

Doris Bauer
Assistant, project administration

Maiada Gassan Hadaia  
(On maternity leave. Not on the picture.)  
Programme Coordinator
Project: Media Cooperation oe1 ORF Campusradio ('Welt im Ohr')

Matthias Weissgram  
Knowledge & information management, conceptual design, contents and technical aspects of the KEF and appear websites, news screening and newsletter services, blogs and online forums, databases, project data, internal infoservices (wikis etc.), content management, ERAfrica.

Mattias Larsen
Mattias Larsen manages KEF’s participation in the project ERAfrica, an ERA-NET working toward reducing the fragmentation of the European Research Area through greater cooperation between the EU and African partners in S&T and research. He also works as a researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he currently leads a project on gender and development in India.

Matthias Schloegl
Contractor, EnFoNet.

Martin Stoebich
Contractor, event organization and event conception.