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Actual Research Projects of the Costa Rica Center
Transformative research and capacity building in the education sector to protect livelihoods and biodiversity in Costa Rica
Cooperation Partners involved: Universidad Técnica Nacional, Costa Rica
Financing: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Funding Program: Partnerships for the Promotion of Biodiversity in Developing Countries
Project duration: 2021-2024
Applicant institutions: University of Osnabrück (UOS); Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN)
Project duration: 2021-2024
Project managers
Dr. Johannes Halbe, Prof. Dr. Susanne Schlünder
Other team members of the UOS
Dr. Philipp Gorris, Prof. Dr. Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Jana Rülke, Caroline van Bers
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CoRi VET – Costa Rican Vocational Education and Training
Cooperation partners involved
Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN)
Centro de Formación Pedagógica y Tecnología Educativa
Financing: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Project duration: 02/01/2021-01/31/2025
Project directors
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Dietmar Frommberger
Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Thomas Bals
Project coordination
Dr. Irina Rommel
Other project members
Anastasia Goncharova, M. Sc.
More information (in German)
Brief description - Department of Vocational and Business Education
Cooperation with Costa Rica - Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Integral Ecology and Education for Sustainable Development - DAAD Alumni Seminars in Chile 2022 and Costa Rica 2023
Participating cooperation partners: Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA): Escuela Ecuménica de Ciencias de la Religión; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC): Facultad de Teología and Facultad de Filosofía; Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika-Deutschland e.V. (ICALA)
Funding: Supported by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Funding programme: Alumni programme for Further Training and integrating international Alumni from developing countries (2022 - 2023) / Programme line 1: Alumni Further Training event abroad
Applicant institution: University of Osnabrück
Project duration: 1.1.2022 - 31.12.2023
Project director: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Margit Eckholt, Institute for Catholic Theology
Project coordination and collaboration: Nikola Götzl M.A., Johannes Bausenhart
Brief description:
Within the framework of the project, two consecutive training seminars for Alumni and Alumnae will be held in Santiago de Chile (from October 13th to 16th, 2022) and in San José/Costa Rica, (probably from October 3rd to 6th, 2023) on the topic of Integral Ecology and Education for Sustainable Development.
While the Alumni Seminar in Chile focuses on theological, philosophical and sociological perspectives in the service of sustainable education, the Alumni Seminar in Costa Rica, following on from this, takes a look at ecofeminist, indigenous and decolonial perspectives of an "integral ecology".
The event in Costa Rica will be carried out at UNA in close cooperation with colleagues from the Escuela Ecuménica de Ciencias de la Religión. In addition, other academic centers and universities in Costa Rica (DEI - Departamento ecuménico de investigaciones, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Universidad Católica, Universidad de Costa Rica) as well as in Guatemala (Universidad Rafael Landívar) and in El Salvador (UCA) are involved.
The two training seminars are in continuity with previous DAAD Alumni Seminars, which were conducted under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Margit Eckholt in cooperation between the University of Osnabrück and the Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika-Deutschland e.V. (including Mexico in 2013, Colombia in 2018). They tie in with the liberation theological and decolonial discourses developed in the Latin American context and take them up from indigenous and feminist perspectives. The seminars deepen in this sense the preceding work of the Alumni Network from an ecological liberation theological and feminist perspective.
Program of the Alumni Seminar in Chile (in spanish)
