A delegation from Mzumbe University in Tanzania recently visited the University of Bonn’s Department of Geography. Mzumbe University is a a partner institution in the Collaborative Research Centre Future Rural, based at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn. Prof. Mwegoha´s visit to Bonn aimed at expanding the existing cooperation between the two universities in research and teaching. Central to this was his meeting with University of Bonn Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Prof. Birgit Münch, and members of the International Office of our university. In this meeting, Prof. Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures), who was a member of the Bonn delegation, emphasized the importance of the already long-standing cooperation with Mzumbe University for CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa’s research in Tanzania. Furthermore, Mzumbe University and its recently promoted Prof. Theobald Frank Theodory have been partners in innovative teaching formats, where students from Bonn and the African partner university are meeting in hybrid classrooms.
Prof. Mwegoha also used his visit to Bonn to gain insights into the organization of the University of Bonn and the Department of Geography, and to share his expertise with the students of the Masters course ‘Water Governance in Rural Kenya’. He also met the directors of the two leading institutes of development studies in Bonn, Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge (IDOS) and Prof. Christian Borgemeister (ZEF). IDOS and ZEF are both partners in the CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa and Prof. Hornidge and Prof. Borgemeister are Principal Investigators in Project B05 Science Futures and Project B02 Future Infections respectively.
