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Energy Supply for Healthcare Facilities in Ghana: Announcing the EnerSHelF website

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23 Jan 2020

We are pleased to announce the launch of the website of the EnerSHelF project. This is an interdisciplinary German-Ghanaian project of political economists, engineers and partners from the private renewable energies sector. EnerSHelF deals with the sustainable and reliable energy supply for healthcare facilities in Ghana, and EADI is involved in the project as transfer and dissemination partner.

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Successful accreditation of the “Master Degree Programme Management of Development”, offered by the Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences

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23 Jan 2020

EADI is delighted to announce the successful accreditation of the “Master Degree Programme Management of Development", offered by the Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein (VHL), University of Applied Sciences, in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. IAC/EADI wishes to congratulate Van Hall Larenstein on the excellent quality of the programme with its distinctive and dynamic features.

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New EADI Webinar: This land is your land, this land is my land? 30 January, 3:00pm CET

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30 Jan 2020

In this webinar, Sylvia Kay and Attila Szocs will discuss their research and activism on land grabbing, with a particular focus on Romania, and the implications for political struggles over land and territories.

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Attention Early Career Researchers: The Call for Abstracts for the 17th Development Dialogue is Open!

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15 Jan 2020

Engaged Scholarship for Development: Building Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice:
Invitation to PhDs and early-career researchers in development studies to share ideas on their research methodologies, findings and experiences towards solidarity, peace and social justice. Submit your abstract by 15 January 2020!

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We wish you a happy festive season and will be back on 2 January

23 Dec 2019

Our office will be closed from 24 December 2019 to 2 January 2020. Until then, we wish you all the best and a good transition to the new year!

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Agenda 2030

Blog: 2020: A “Super Year” for the Ocean?
2020/01 – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI); blog post; Author(s): Julien Rochette et al
Domestic Pension Funds in Africa. Can they finance the SDGs?
2020/01 – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS); Working papers etc.; Author(s): Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen and Ole Winckler Andersen
Blog: We Can’t Better the World at Once. So Let's Do It Together!
2020/01 – Copenhagen Business School, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (IKL); The BUSINESS of SOCIETY; Author(s): Julia Köhler

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Degrowth in Europe: Foundations in Theory and Pathways to Practice, 11-15 May 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)Convened by the Department of Food and Resource EconomicsOpens external of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, the course course will engage in the ‘degrowth’ / ‘postgrowth’ discourse through the perspectives of the complementary and established traditions of i) political ecology, ii) feminist scholarship, and iii) ecological economics. The course will survey theoretical contributions to degrowth from various schools of thought, while emphasizing praxis in multiple social spheres and similarly, scholar-activism. The course unfolds within a frame of Degrowth in Europe, emphasizing what European peoples and states can and must do, starting within our own region.

Expected learning outcomes
The course aims to enable and advance critical engagement with degrowth scholarship and praxis. Learning outcomes include:
1. Knowledge of key arguments and areas of consensus within degrowth studies from the perspective of academic traditions of Political Ecology, Feminist scholarship, and Ecological Economics.
2. Analytical and evaluative skill development in relation to research within the field of degrowth studies, drawing on academic traditions of Ecological Economics, Political Ecology and Feminist scholarship.
3. Competence to critically discuss current and imagine new policies and practices.

Dates and application deadline
The course will take place from 11-15 May 2020.
The application deadline is 1 February 2020.

ISS
Call for Applications: Erasmus Mundus Master Global Studies (EMGS)
2020/01 – Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS); Deadline: 15 February 2020
GCGS - UGent
Blog: Pandemics – Social Sciences Are Vital, but We Must Take the Next Steps
2020/01 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton; blog post; Author(s): Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor
IDS

Calls for Papers and Research Proposals

Call for Applications: Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ETH in Development and Cooperation - Cycle 2020-2022
2020/01 – ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL); Deadline: 29 February 2020
Call for Applications: Erasmus Mundus Master Global Studies (EMGS)
2020/01 – Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS); Deadline: 15 February 2020
GCGS - UGent
Call: CBR RFP Call for Proposals From Community-Based Researchers, Loyola University Chicago’s Sixth Climate Change Conference, 12 March
2020/01 – Fundación ETEA para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación (Fundación ETEA); Deadline: 1 February
Call for Papers: Africa Knows! It Is Time to Decolonise Minds, the Hague, 2-4 December 2020
2020/01 – African Studies Centre (ASC); Deadline: 31 March
Call for Papers: Still an Actor? The EU in Global Politics, 2-3 April 2020, Stockholm, Sweden
2020/01 – Department of Government, Uppsala University; Deadline: 27 January 2020
Call for Papers: Financial Crises, Poverty and Environmental Sustainability in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals [International Workshop], 10-11 June, Bangkok
2020/01 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD); Deadline: 27 February 2020
IDS
Call: Call for Applications: Visiting Research Fellowships Scheme
2020/01 – Maynooth University Social Science Institute (MUSSI); Deadline: 27 March
Call: Call for Submissions - 17th EARA (European Association for Research on Adolescence) Conference, Porto, 2-5 September 2020
2020/01 – Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas (CAPP); Deadline: 9 February
CAPP
Call for Papers: EUCOR Cross-Border Workshop Series: The Trouble With the State. Boundaries and Networks in Africa
2020/01 – Arnold Bergsträsser Institut (ABI); Deadline: extended

Jobs at EADI Members

Job Offer: Lecturer in Development Studies : The University of Melbourne
2020/01 – Global Development Institute (GDI); Deadline: 16 February
Job Offer: Research Fellow Biodiversity and Land-Use Change
2020/01 – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI); Deadline: 3 February
Job Offer: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP)
2020/01 – Deadline: 14 February
IDS
Job Offer: Two Assistant Professors of Sociology
2020/01 – Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR); Deadline: 1 March
AISSR
Job Offer: Up to Five PhD Positions in Political Science
2020/01 – Department of Government, Uppsala University; Nordic Africa Institute (NAI); Deadline: 5 February 2020, 23:59 (Swedish time)
Job Offer: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Ecological-Soci-Oeconomic Trade-Offs in Different Land-Use Systems in Sumatra, Indonesia. (PDF)
2020/01 – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA); Deadline: 30 January
Job Offer: Senior Researcher of US Foreign and Security Policy
2020/01 – Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS); Deadline: 2 February 2020
Job Offer: PhD Candidate Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic SUDEA
2020/01 – German Development Institute, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE); Deadline: 21 February
DIE
Job Offer: Research Fellow & Lead Researcher: DIGITAX, International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) at IDS
2019/12 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton; Deadline: 31 January 2020
IDS
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