Shaping Futures: African-European Network on Development and Sustainability
The Shaping Futures: African-European Network on Development and Sustainability, formerly known as the BMZ African-German Leadership Academy is a dialogue and training programme targeted at early to mid-career professionals from participating African and European countries. The programme contributes to the development of leadership skills, encourages dialogue and mutual learning for sustainability. The Academy lays the foundation for a network, which brings together alumni, their home institutions and various cooperation partners to jointly engage in knowledge cooperation, to create partnerships, and to build a community of actors dedicated to sustainable development.
Project Lead:
Sven Grimm
Samantha Ruppel
Project Team:
Isabelle Eberz
Ditebogo Modiegi Morare
Julia Osada
Yunussova, Malika
Financing:
Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Time frame:
2021 - 2024
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ongoing
Project description
The Shaping Futures: African-European Network on Development and Sustainability Academy (Shaping Futures Academy), formerly known as the BMZ African-German Leadership Academy (African Academy) is a dialogue and training programme targeted at early to mid-career professionals from participating African, (Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Togo, and Zambia) and European (EU, EEA, and UK) countries. The Shaping Futures Academy aims to empower future leaders on both continents by bringing together like- minded peers to reflect on their roles in their respective communities and institutions and develop strategies on how they can induce or support change processes for a transformation to sustainability in the present and future contexts.
With diversity at its the core, the Shaping Futures Academy welcomes participants from a various sectors (civil society, academia and think tanks, public administration, business and media) to encourage transdisciplinarity and to promote networking and knowledge exchange.
The Shaping Futures Academy is hosted by the German Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The programme is conducted in English.
Events
Alumni / Networking Meeting of the BMZ African-German Leadership Academy
Partner meeting of the BMZ African-German Leadership Academy
Food security in West and Central Africa
Third Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network
Second Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network
First Virtual General Assembly Meeting (VGAM) of the African Academy Alumni Network
Project Coordination
Co-operation Partner
