German Foreign Office funds research centres in Global South
Auswärtiges Amt (AA).
Four of the new ‘Global Centres’ are to engage in research and teaching on climate issues, while the other four will be focusing on health topics and pandemics. Germany’s AA is providing around €22 million (US$26 million) for the development of the centres in Asia, Africa and Latin America up to 2025.
In applying to establish the centres, German universities were able to team up with partners from countries in the Global South and with further German and international partner organisations. Each of the centres will be receiving up to €600,000 (US$722,000) in funding each year, initially up to 2025, but with options for further support up to 2030.
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April 19, 2021
A Jewish cemetery is vandalized with Nazi swastikas in Germany. Such anti-Semitic attacks were up sharply across Europe in 2020. (Photo courtesy of ADL)
Anti-Jewish hate and violence long a scourge of Europe is once again on the increase, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to take a bruising toll on economies from Belgium to Bulgaria.
Yet in the wake of neo-Nazi conspiracy theories and online Holocaust denial, Germany has a special responsibility to stem this rising tide of hatred, argues Emily Haber, the country’s ambassador to the United States.
Haber, who assumed her post in June 2018, spoke during an April 12 webinar hosted by Michael Brenner, director of American University’s Center for Israel Studies. Among other things, Brenner is a professor of Jewish history at Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History.