North Africa

QuiPack: Food value chain intelligence and integrative design for the development and implementation of innovative food packaging according to bioeconomic sustainability criteria

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Research Center for Health Sciences – One Health

Irene Huber

Secretariat contact: Katrin Braun katrin.braun@uni-hohenheim.de
health.uni-hohenheim.de/geschaeftsstelle

Integrated Chia and Oyster Mushroom System for Sustainable Food Value Chain in Africa (CHIAM)

 

Region: North and East Africa, Europe

Kenya, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Hungary

Funding program:
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)

Funding period:
2021-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Process Analytics and Cereal Science

Dr. Viktoria Zettel

Secretariat contact: Melina Effner melina.effner@uni-hohenheim.de
process-analytics.uni-hohenheim.de/team-a-z

Research Grants - Doctoral Programmes in Germany (Combination of the enantioselective formation of furan-2-yl carbinols and their laccase-catalyzed Achmatowicz reactions)

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2019-Present

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry

Dr. Urs Gellrich

Secretariat contact: Franziska Häberle franziska.haeberle@uni-hohenheim.de
organische-chemie.uni-hohenheim.de/team

BRIGHT-Futures: Bright Spots in Agriculture - Learning from today's role models for a sustainable future

 

Region: East Africa, North America, Asia, Europe

Mexico, India, Kenya, Germany

Funding program:
Anton and Petra Ehrmann-Foundation

Funding period:
2024-2031

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems

Prof. Dr. Ingo Grass

Secretariat contact: Eva Schmidt eschmidt@uni-hohenheim.de
agroecology.uni-hohenheim.de/uebersicht-team

QuiPack: Food value chain intelligence and integrative design for the development and implementation of innovative food packaging according to bioeconomic sustainability criteria

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Yield Stability

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sandra M. Schmöckel

Secretariat contact: Lilit Manukyan lilit.manukyan@uni-hohenheim.de
crop-physiology.uni-hohenheim.de/team-a-z

Quinoa as a climate-smart crop diversification option for higher income generation from marginal lands in the Mediterranean

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)

Funding period:
2022-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Physiology of Yield Stability

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sandra M. Schmöckel

Secretariat contact: Lilit Manukyan lilit.manukyan@uni-hohenheim.de
crop-physiology.uni-hohenheim.de/team-a-z

NetCDA: European Academic Network for Capacity Development in Climate Change Adaptations in Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Funding period:
2024-2025

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Department of Bioeconomy

Prof. Dr. Franziska Schünemann

Secretariat contact: Alina Rossa alina.rossa@uni-hohenheim.de
bioecon.uni-hohenheim.de/fs

QuiPack: Food value chain intelligence and integrative design for the development and implementation of innovative food packaging according to bioeconomic sustainability criteria

 

Region: North Africa

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
PRIMA

Funding period:
2024-2027

Status:
Ongoing

Contact:
Research Center for Health Sciences – One Health

Dr. Irene Huber

Secretariat contact: Katrin Braun katrin.braun@uni-hohenheim.de
health.uni-hohenheim.de/geschaeftsstelle

CESSARi - Cystic Echinococcosis in sub-Saharan Africa Research Initiative (Epidemiology and clinical implications of the genetic diversity of Echinococcus spp. in eastern and southern Africa)

 

Region: North, East and Southern Africa

Countries (phase 1) Kenya, Sudan, South Africa, Uganda. Countries (phase 2): Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia. Countries (phase 3): Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Zambia

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG), Deutsch-afrikanische Kooperationsprojekte in der Infektiologie

Funding period:
2009-2018

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Parasitology

Prof. Dr. Ute Mackenstedt

Secretariat contact: Simone Gayer s.gayer@uni-hohenheim.de
parasitologie.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Alleviation of oxidative stress and detoxification of lipid peroxidation products by flavin-dependent oxidoreductases

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2009-2012

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schaller

Secretariat contact: Silke Scholz silke.scholz@uni-hohenheim.de
pflanzenphysiologie.uni-hohenheim.de/79411

Abiotic stress resistance in Solanaceous crops

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt

Funding period:
2015-2016

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schaller

Secretariat contact: Silke Scholz silke.scholz@uni-hohenheim.de
pflanzenphysiologie.uni-hohenheim.de/79411

Potenzial von Oxophytodiensäurereduktasen für die Minderung oxidativen Stresses in transgenen Tomatenpflanzen

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2017-2018

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schaller

Secretariat contact: Silke Scholz silke.scholz@uni-hohenheim.de
pflanzenphysiologie.uni-hohenheim.de/79411

Tilapia value chains for the poor: testing sustainable practices

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2015-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Food Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Walter Vetter

Secretariat contact: Karin Herrmann Karin_Herrmann@uni-hohenheim.de
ilc.uni-hohenheim.de/institut-mitarbeiter

Research Grants - Doctoral Programmes in Germany (New Applications of Fungal Laccases for the Efficient Synthesis and Modification of Heterocycles)

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2010-2013

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry

Dr. Urs Gellrich

Secretariat contact: Franziska Häberle franziska.haeberle@uni-hohenheim.de
organische-chemie.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Research Grants - Doctoral Programmes in Germany (New Cu(I)-Catalyzed Domino Reactions between Bisfunctionalized (Het)arenes and Bisfunctionalized Reagents)

 

Region: North Africa

Egypt

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Funding period:
2011-2014

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Bioorganic Chemistry

Dr. Urs Gellrich

Secretariat contact: Franziska Häberle franziska.haeberle@uni-hohenheim.de
organische-chemie.uni-hohenheim.de/team

PARI: Supporting dairy value chains and smallholder agricultural mechanization in Ghana, Kenya, Tunisia and Zambia: Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation

 

Region: West, North, East and Southern Africa

Ghana, Tunisia, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2015-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Nutrition and Rangeland Management in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Uta Dickhöfer

Secretariat contact: Elke Schmidt elke.schmidt@uni-hohenheim.de
aninutrop.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Medwaste: Mediterrane landwirtschaftliche Abfälle, umweltbewusste und nachhaltige Quellen für innovative Technologien im Bereich der erneuerbaren Technologien

 

Region: North Africa

Morocco, Tunisia

Funding program:
German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Funding period:
2017-2020

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Conversion Technologies of Biobased Resources

Prof. Dr. Andrea Kruse

Secretariat contact: Veronika Ege V.Ege@uni-hohenheim.de
konversionstechnologie.uni-hohenheim.de/mitarbeiter

Evaluation and optimization of enzymatic cassava roots peeling

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Fiat Panis Foundation

Funding period:
2015-2017

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

Biomass Web: Improving food security in Africa through increased system productivity of biomass-based value webs

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Funding period:
2013-2016

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

Field testing of an innovative solar powered milk cooling solution for the higher efficiency of the dairy subsector in Tunisia

 

Region: North Africa

Tunisia

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2015-2017

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

Supporting dairy value chains and smallholder agricultural mechanization in Ghana, Kenya, Tunisia and Zambia: Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI)

 

Region: North and East Africa

Tunisia, Kenya

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2014-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

I-WALAMAR: Sustainable technologies and services for water and land management in Morocco

 

Region: North Africa

Morocco

Funding program:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Funding period:
2019-2022

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller

Secretariat contact: Karin Haubner karin.haubner@uni-hohenheim.de
agrartechnik-440e.uni-hohenheim.de/staff

Genetic characterization and evaluation and nutritional traits of adapted pearl millet

 

Region: North Africa

Sudan

Funding program:
Global Crop Diversity Trust

Funding period:
2010-2011

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Plant Breeding

Prof. Dr. Bettina I.G. Haussmann

Secretariat contact: Helga Kösling i350a@uni-hohenheim.de
plant-breeding.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Gender-dynamik in westafrikanischen familiengeführten Geflügelproduktionssystemen und Auswirkungen auf die Intensivierung

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Funding period:
2023-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Linking human wellbeing and ethics of sustainibility to resilient livestock managemant systems in Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

Funding period:
2021-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

Linking human wellbeing and ethics of sustainibility to resilient livestock managemant systems in Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

Funding period:
2021-2024

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Mizeck Chagunda

Secretariat contact: Dominique Keller inst480a@uni-hohenheim.de
animal-breeding-husbandry-tropics.uni-hohenheim.de/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeitende

LEAP4FNSSA: Long-term EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
European Commission - H2020

Funding period:
2018-2022

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems (GFE)

Dr. Hycenth Tim Ndah

Secretariat contact: Susanne Braunschweiger susanne.braunschweiger-fink@uni-hohenheim.de
gfe.uni-hohenheim.de/en/staff

Activating institutional innovations for hunger and poverty reduction: Potential of applied international agricultural research

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Funding period:
2011-2013

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development

Prof. Dr. Regina Birner

Secretariat contact: Linn Doppler linn.doppler@uni-hohenheim.de
490c.uni-hohenheim.de/team

Entwicklung von Methoden zur Bewertung der Auswirkungen des Klima- und Landnutzungswandels auf ökosystemare Dienstleistungen entlang rural-urbaner Gradienten in Afrika

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Themenkomplex Afrika der Universitäten Hohenheim und Tübingen

Funding period:
2021

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Department of Management of Crop Water Stress in the Tropics and Subtropics

Prof. Dr. Folkard Asch

Secretary contact: office490g@uni-hohenheim.de
cwsm.uni-hohenheim.de/en

The role of multi-actor partnerships for achieving a higher degree of sustainability in cross-border agri-food supply chains

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Funding period:
2019-2020

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

Assistant: Beate Hammer beate.hammer@uni-hohenheim.de
apo.uni-hohenheim.de

Task Force Rural Africa

 

Region: Africa

 

Funding program:
EU Commission

Funding period:
2018-2019

Status:
Closed

Contact:
Agricultural and Food Security Department

Prof. Dr. Christine Wieck

Assistant: Beate Hammer beate.hammer@uni-hohenheim.de
apo.uni-hohenheim.de