Our projects
Our projects
Discover the projects we are working on
This section showcases our latest research projects, where brilliant minds from Germany and Africa come together to tackle crucial problems in a variety of disciplines. Immerse yourself in these collaborative projects and discover how we are pushing the boundaries of science and shaping a better future.
This project examines multimodal relationalities of German colonial history and its aftermath in Germany and West Africa. German industrialization, colonization, media of mass culture and West African plantation economy, enslavement and infrastructures of transport are deeply intertwined....
Created in 2007 by a consortium of 10 researchers from 5 African countries (Cameroon, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Tanzania) and 4 European countries (Germany, Sweden, Netherlands and Italy), the PRD College was a research group focusing on poverty-related diseases....
As part of its support for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Yaoundé I, the DAW Center has organized a number of interdisciplinary doctoral colloquia in cooperation with the Faculty. Colloquia were organized on the comparative method in the human sciences...
The aim of this international meeting, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, was to bring together scientists from different fields and different countries to discuss the important question of the relationship between culture and science....
Every year, the DAAD organizes a number of events to provide information about studying in Germany. Some of these events were held at the DAW Center, notably in 2013 and 2014. In addition to DAAD, the Humboldt, Volkswagen, Bayer, Thyssen and Friedrich Ebert Foundations also participated in the "Doing Research in Germany" 2014 event...
Since their creation, and until 2018, the DAW Center has supported the doctoral schools of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Yaoundé I, notably by organizing selection meetings for masters and thesis candidates, ensuring the administrative management of the doctoral school Arts...
As part of the partnership between the University of Leipzig via the Center for Advanced Studies and the DAW Center, an international conference on The sociology of the state: reflexive turn and new dynamics took place on June 3, 2014 at the DAW Center. ...
From December 2 to 4, 2013, a joint conference of the South African Association of Germanists (SAGV) and the Association of African Germanists South of the Sahara (GAS) took place at the DAW Center on the theme: Memory of Colonialism in Africa and Europe...
From January 2012 to December 2014, the Executive Board of AGNES (African German Network of Excellence in Science) met at its headquarters at the DAW Center. Also as part of AGNES activities, two workshops were held at the DAW center in 2013 and 2014, as was already the case in 2012. During these workshops, AGNES committee members met for a variety of purposes...
On November 14, 2014 was held in the conference room of the Centre DAW of the University of Yaoundé I a seminar on the theme Urbanization in Africa as a major challenge, bringing together parcitipants from South Africa, Germany, Kenya and Cameroon. ...
Beim Seminar zum Thema "Urbanisation in Africa as a major challenge", das am 14. November 2014 am DAW-Zentrum der Université de Yaoundé I stattfand, trafen sich Teilnehmer aus Südafrika, Deutschland, Kenya und Kamerun. ...
At the last two Alumni Denkfabrik seminars held in 2014, participants clearly demonstrated that urbanity is one of the greatest challenges facing modern Africa (for reports on these seminars, please visit our website www.daw-zentrum.org)....
At the last two seminars organized by Alumni Denkfabrik in 2014, participants clearly demonstrated that urbanity is one of the greatest challenges facing modern Africa (for a report on these seminars, please consult our website www.daw-zentrum.org). The seminars identified a number of areas where these challenges are manifested. ...
The Changing Stateness in Africa project was part of the DFG-funded priority program SPP 1448 entitled Adaptation and Creativity in Africa, Technologies and Meanings in the Production of Order and Disorder, which was conducted in April 2011 by the University of Leipzig in partnership with the University of Halle. The project aimed to examine the nature, scope and limits of the state in Africa. ...
The expression "vivre ensemble" (living together), whether in its verbal form or as a substantive infinitive, first appeared in Cameroonian discourse in the political and media arenas. It would certainly be instructive to study why and how this expression......
For a number of years now, the Goethe Institut has been offering German alumni, under the aegis of the KBK (Koordinationsbüro Kamerun), the opportunity to meet and discuss topics of general or specific interest as part of one of its flagship programs. The aim is to enable them to participate in the analysis and solution of challenges that concern them in particular, or that concern the national and international community at different levels and in different sectors. ...
The "Anglophone problem" has undoubtedly been one of the most significant socio-cultural and political events of this decade in Cameroon. This protest movement, whose epicenter is the so-called English-speaking part of Cameroon, has led to the reappearance of terms and expressions such as "Southern Cameroons", "West Cameroon", etc., both in the English-speaking and French-speaking zones...
The ANHIPEDIA project concerns the development of a nutrition platform or online portal with a search function for a wide variety of African foods. The design phase of the project was completed in 2014, unfortunately no funding has yet been secured for its implementation....
