Team
Team
The co-operation between the University of Oldenburg and Nelson Mandela University in South Africa (then the University of Port Elizabeth) was founded in the mid-1990s by the educationalists Prof. Dr Wolfgang Nitsch, Prof. Dr Gottfried Mergner and Prof. Dr Claudia Lohrenscheit, who were involved in the anti-apartheid solidarity movement. Until his death (2016), Wolfgang Nitsch continued the partnership substantially and with ever new initiatives and visions and initiated the expansion of the co-operation to many other disciplines and departments at the University of Oldenburg. He was succeeded by Karsten Speck, who has also been the official ambassador of the University of Oldenburg for the partnership with Nelson Mandela University since 2019(more on the history and the strategic partnership can be found here). The partnerships with the University of Dar es Salaam (since 2008), Moi University and the Uganda Management Institute (since 2014) were integrated based on their expertise and needs, and the South-South component is now a permanent feature of the co-operation.
In Oldenburg, the educational cooperation with the South and East African partners is supported by:
Prof Dr Karsten Speck
Research methods in the social and educational sciences: since 2014 project leader of the DAAD-funded CERM-ESA and DIGI-FACE projects (since 2019) and the Comp³Modules for In-Country/ In-Region scholarship holders (since 2024)
Prof Dr Bernd Siebenhüner
Ecological economics: since 2009 to date project leader of several DAAD-funded co-operation projects on sustainability and climate change; since 2014 project leader of CERM-ESA and DIGI-FACE (since 2019) and the Comp³Modules for In-Country/ In-Region scholarship holders (since 2024)
Dr Malve v. Möllendorff
Scientific project coordinator and member of the research methods group at the department of education: since 2001, initially as a student of intercultural education, involved in the co-operation with Nelson Mandela University, 2007-2008 managing director of the 'Centre for South-North Educational Co-operation' under the direction of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nitsch, since 2008 coordinator of various DAAD and MWK-funded projects, including DevSus, Clim-A-Net, CERM-ESA, DIGI-FACE, Comp³Modules
