Sub-Saharan Africa
Press releases
Report on the C3L UNILEAD professional development programme, which focuses primarily on higher education managers from countries in the Global South (03/2026)
Presentation of the international Master’s programme in Sustainable Renewable Energy Technologies (SuRe) and the SEEDexchange project, which cooperates with Ghana, amongst others (02/2026)
Interview with Dr Lydia Potts, former coordinator of the international Master’s programme EMMIR, which cooperates with universities in Sudan and South Africa, amongst others. (09/2024)
Profile of the East and South African-German Centre of Excellence for Educational Research Methodologies and Management (08/2024)
Report on Adenike Adenaya from Nigeria, participant in the Falling Walls Foundation’s 2023 funding programme, 2023 DAAD award winner and PhD candidate at the ICBM (01/2024)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Since its foundation, the University of Oldenburg has been committed to social justice and ecological sustainability, also in a global context. In the Global South, Sub-Saharan Africa has developed particularly dynamically as a regional focus of research and university cooperation since the early 2000s.
In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the projects are based on reliable and long-term partnerships. This involves cooperation and exchange measures with African partner institutions that integrate the areas of (higher) education, research, further education, management and transdisciplinary engagement. To date, work has focused on the following areas: Educational research and management, gender research, computer science, climate adaptation and land use management, marine and coastal research, and renewable energies.
With the help of funding programs from the DAAD, EU, DFG, various federal ministries and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, numerous programmes have been successfully implemented together with partner institutions.
The following overview shows all current partner institutions in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. For further information on focal points, partnership officers or cooperation contacts and links, simply click on the relevant markers.