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The problem with palm oil

Palm oil is the most commonly produced vegetable oil in the world. Its cultivation is destroying many rainforests, making it a huge threat to the climate, people and endangered species. Yet the oil has many useful characteristics and is found in many more products than we think. It’s not easy for consumers to do the right thing.

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THE GLOBAL GOALS – powered by Alumni

The United Nations 2030 Agenda is a universal framework for all countries and all people. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a lot of opportunities for indivduals to show solidarity. How? Visit our new section “THE GLOBAL GOALS – powered by Alumni”!

Between Two Worlds

Migration Has Many Faces

Six (fictional) picture stories show how diverse the life journeys of migrants are worldwide. Many people care for the well-being of their families from abroad: they are working in foreign countries to send their money home. Nevertheless being apart from their beloved ones often is not easy – for example for Xitlali from Mexico, who works as a nanny in the USA missing her own children painfully.

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Prof. Abdelghani
E. Figueroa
Dr. Calub
M. Randrianirainy
N. Fejzibegovic

Prof. Adnane Abdelghani

Adnane Abdelghani is a professor at the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT) in Tunisia. He is involved with Tunisian innovation and start-up projects in the field of nanotechnology. In the 1990s, he was in Germany for a three-year research project at the Technical Universty of Munich, supported by a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.

“I believe that with support from Germany, Tunisia can implement successful projects in the areas of biotechnology, mechatronics, mechanics, electromechanics and environment.”

Estefania Figueroa

Estefanía Figueroa Buitrago is a student of electrical engineering and came to Germany in 2012/13, together with 30 other Colombian scholarship holders, as part of the DAAD-programme "Young Engineers from Colombia". After a two-month German language course at the Goethe-Institut in Göttingen, she studied electrical engineering for one semester at the Technical University of Dresden. Afterwards, she completed an internship in the area of Android programming with the German company Bosch.

“You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself and do everything with sincerity.”

Dr. Blesida Calub

Blesilda M. Calub is a researcher in the field of integrated cultivation systems and agricultural consultation at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. In 1994, she took part in a GIZ training programme on the subject of "Development of Agricultural Systems" in Germany. Following this, she became a member of the multicultural team of trainers in several Southeast Asian countries. As a result of her practical work in the field, she published the "Participatory Rural Appraisal Guidebook".

“During my training in Germany, I was impressed by the interactive and participatory teaching methods, because they were very different from the usual lecture format which I knew from my home country.”

Manuela Randrianirainy

Manuela Randrianirainy is studying German philology in Antananarivo. She was in Munich for three months and took a German language course at the Goethe-Institut. After completing her Master's thesis, she would like to work as a teacher at the University of Madagascar and as a translator.

“I have a lot of very happy and unforgettable memories of my stay in Germany. I would like to pass on my passion for Germany and the German language to as many people as possible.”

Nino Fejzibegovic

Nino Fejzibegovic is Bosnian. Since 2010, his medical studies not only took him to the University of Heidelberg, but also to Sweden, South Africa, Austria, Japan and to the USA, where he did internships. Germany, however, became a second home to him. The next steps are his dissertation and his specialist examinations.

“I strongly advise everyone to simply dare to see and do something else.”

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