The “Global Studies Peace and Security in Africa” Cooperation between AAU and Uni.Leipzig in the Context of Transnational Higher Education

September 2014

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• one of very few universities cooperations in the humanities and social sciences in Ethiopia

• the only one with joint degrees (cooperation on equal eye level) for master students

• attracts students from a wide range of countries making it the most international programme that AAU currently has

• attracts students from the global north to enroll in a full degree, tuition based, two year programme in an Ethiopian university

contributing to a change in the directionality of student mobility (used to be mainly East to West, South to North) to include African universities

Global Studies with an emphasis onPeace and Security in Africa is…

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• strong in promoting the gender balance among students and enabling female master and PhD students

• greatly connected to the wider African academic community through its partner, the Institute for Peace and Security Studies

• recipient of DAAD funding throughout the first four years, however soon able to operate independently

• implementation done by professors, independent curriculum design and teaching methods to promote jointness

• successful in acquiring additional DAAD scholarships (by now 25.000 €) to wave fees for students

Global Studies with an emphasis onPeace and Security in Africa is…cont.

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• study programme of 1. and 2. year is provided by teaching staff of the UL (both in Addis Ababa and Leipzig) and the IPSS

• Modules taught by UL staff will be taught as blocks (partly successively, partly in parallel)

• modules of the 1., 3. and 4. term: taught at AAU, modules of 2. term: taught at UL (two-months study period at UL; sandwich term at UL also for PhDs)

• German language classes in preparation of study period at UL

Organisation of the programmes

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Curriculum (MA)

1. year

2 research seminars on basic problems of globalisation research (transnationalism research; new political geography; introduction to international studies)

Summer School (Discussion of research literature on globalisation)

1 workshop on research soft skills1 workshop on research methods1 workshop on academic teaching

Colloquium and 2 Thesis Committee Meetings (discussion of work process and review of students’ texts by supervisors and other academic experts supported by e-learning tools and new media)

2. year

1 research seminar on New Regionalism

Summer School (presentation of papers of PhD students)

1 workshop on research soft skills1 workshop on research methods1 workshop on academic teaching

Colloquium and 2 Thesis Committee Meetings (discussion of work process and review of students’ texts by supervisors and other academic experts supported by e-learning tools and new media)

3. year

1 research seminar on Peace and Security

2 Thesis Committee Meetings (discussion of work process and review of students’ texts by supervisors and other academic experts supported by e-learning tools and new media)

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Curriculum (PhD)

2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015 Total

Master

female 7 3 6 16

male 6 3 4 13

PhD

female 3 1 3 7

male 3 0 3 6

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Global Studies PSA ProgrammeStudent Intake and Gender Balance

overall 42 students our students come from : Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, Ukraine,

Latvia, Germany, USA, Holland, Poland, Japan, Nigeria, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, and Zambia

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Global Studies PSA ProgrammeCooperation with the city partnership Addis-Leipzig

• Diriba Kuma, mayor of Addis Ababa visited Leipzig in May with delegation

• Investment Forum attended by students to network with employers

• Burkhard Jung, mayor of Leipzig to visit Addis Ababa in February 2015 to hand over first joint degrees in graduation ceremony

• Joint celebration of Ethiopian New Year in Leipzig

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Global Studies PSA ProgrammeLaunching Promoting and Alumni Activities

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Global Studies PSA ProgrammeLaunch in September 2014

09:30 Word of Welcome from the Deputy Director of IPSSAto Yonas Adaye

10:00 Perspectives from Fellow StudentsAto Abebaw Tezera Zerihun

11:00 Campus Tour Addis Ababa UniversityProf. Dr. Tesfaye Tafesse

12:00 Visit University Museum and Kennedy Library

13:00 Lunch at Chembeko

14:00 Excursion to Oxfam International Liaison Office with the African Union, Briefing on AU by Désiré Assogbavi, Head of Office

16:00 Visit of the African Union Offices

19:00 Welcome Reception and Dinner at Yod Abyssinia (Bole)IPSS invites students to a traditional Ethiopian restaurant(Meeting President of AAU)