IDOS bid farewell to the participants of this year’s Postgraduate Programme (PGP) course with an awarding of certificates.
In his farewell speech for the PGP, Dr Axel Berger, Deputy Director (interim) of IDOS, emphasised the professional skills that the participants had acquired during the nine-month programme. He also recognised the joint challenges they overcame during the three-month research stays, as well as the intensive teamwork with international partners to gain experience in empirical research and policy advice. Berger thanked the graduates for their energy, commitment and willingness to get involved in the field of sustainable development and wished them all the best.
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The participants received a certificate for their successful participation in the course programme.
IDOS congratulates all graduates of the course and wishes them all the best!
This year, the research teams led by IDOS research staff worked on the following topics:
Social Cohesion in the Context of Environmental/Climate-Related Internal Displacement in Ghana
Lead: Dr Charles Martin-Shields and Dr Susan Ekoh
Environmental Justice Implications of Protected Areas: Evidence from Misiguay Forests, Colombia
Lead: Dr Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco and Mirja Schoderer
Lead: Dr Andreas Stamm (IDOS), Dr Rita Strohmaier, and Paula Prados (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in Argentina (UNQ)
All research teams worked with research partners in Ghana, Colombia, Argentina, and Uruguay. These collaborations ranged from an institutional partnership with a university, to a transdisciplinary research project in cooperation with a community member, to a pilot project in which postgraduates from IDOS and our partner institutions participated in the research team and which was jointly supervised by IDOS researchers and a researcher from the partner institution.
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The Postgraduate Programme at IDOS starts every year on 1 September and lasts nine months. The programme takes place in Bonn from September to January and in May; a research stay is planned between February and April. In addition to the programme, IDOS provides intensive support to participants in their professional orientation. The institute utilises its many years of knowledge and close contacts with important German and international institutions in the field of global development cooperation. The application phase for the next PGP starts in December.
More information on the PGP can be found here (Link: – German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) (idos-research.de)) and here (Link to flyer: Postgraduierten-Programm Flyer (idos-research.de)
