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networking &
sustainability

CNRD is a knowledge hub and network regarding issues on assessing and managing the natural resources base as prerequisite for sustainable development.

themes of CNRD
& MDG7

  • Integrated water ressource management
  • Land user dynamics and biodiversity
  • Energy efficiency and renewable ressources
  • Regional management and sustainable livilhoods of the poor
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CNRD
international

In order to achieve the MDGs, it is required to coordinate action between a multitude of stakeholders at local, national and international level from different sectors and from different types of institutions (governmental, private, civil society).
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education &
research

CNRD aspires the creation of a worldwide network of postgraduate courses related to natural resources management and development with an interdisciplinary and intercultural orientation.
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CNRD online

  • a tool for collaboration and communication
  • to support overall CNRD objectives
  • knowledge hub providing information to internal and external audience
  • e-Journal with scientific reports
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centre for natural resources and development

newsroom

CNRD


Since uncontrolled consumption of natural resources causes several development problems, ensuring environmental sustainability was adopted in the list of Millennium Development Goals, or MDG 7. The Center for Natural Resources and Development (CNRD) is concentrating on water management, land use, biodiversity, renewable energy sources, and regional management to help achieve this goal.

Cologne’s cooperation partners are Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, and Vietnam as well as international organizations and further institutions involved in development cooperation.

In order to promote knowledge transfer, chairs in natural resources management will be created, Master's programs in nine partner countries networked, postgraduate programs set up, and dialogue between HEIs and stakeholders in situ supported. All research results and teaching material of the center will be made available to the public. A communication platform on the internet will be set up for this purpose.

exceed


The program “exceed - Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation” aims at supporting German HEIs together with their partners in developing countries . Support is given to those institutions that contribute to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other goals of development cooperation policy in an innovative manner. The aim is to strengthen the HEIs in the domains of education, research and consultancy. The major concerns of the program are:

  • to bind together German Higher Education Institutions with priorities directly linked to the MDGs in competence centers;
  • to increase education and research on issues relevant to development cooperation policy in German and partner country German Higher Education Institutions;
  • raising the public profile of the universities and their MDG-related activities both at home and in the developing world to the MDGs in the eyes of the general public in Germany and developing countries;
  • to establish excellent and high level research on development cooperation policy issues, so that this can serve as a guiding light and so attract international academic interest;
  • to strengthen and expand north-south as well as south-south networks;
  • to increase policy analysis and debate in developing countries and Germany.


By these activities, researchers and institutes are encouraged to continue and expand their commitment in development cooperation. The competence centers are meant to become think tanks for development cooperation that develop approaches for the solution of global challenges and transfer them to policy makers, donors and practitioners.
The competences centers were selected in a two-step process by an international peer-review group between October 2008 and June 2009. Five centers receive funding since July 2009 for a period of five years. The program is managed by the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst / DAAD) with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

first research results ....


Development of Elective Course on “Disasters, Environment and Risk Reduction” - Environment and Disasters interact with each other in a number of ways.

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first research results ....


We are proud to present the first results of the research into the design of the Virtual Centre. The following movie shows the summary of the student responses of all partners to the diaries we developed.

watch the movie ...  download, mp4, 68,9MB

workshop


CNRD network is carrying out different meetings and workshops on annual base, e.g. regional curriculum development or capacity building workshops.

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CNRD network meeting


 

All CNRD members meet annually during the network meeting. The 2012 network meeting will take place in October/November in Cairo, Egypt, hosted by Ain Shams University.

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Master's & PhD program

courses, students and application

Qualified graduates can apply for a full PhD scholarship at one of the CNRD partner universities. Master's students of the CNRD universities can apply for a scholarship of 4-6 months for a semester at another CNRD university or to conduct field research (related to MDG 7)

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CNRD chair

teaching related to MDG 7

CNRD is offering a position for a Professorship responsible for the field of

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universities & partner

a global network

Target regions of cooperation are South and South-East Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southern Africa.

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Exceed
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