Since May 2021 and continuing until the end of 2030, the program has been supporting the establishment and operation of international centers with locations at German universities and those in the Global South. The centers focus on addressing the global challenges reflected in their names, through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation among academic institutions. These collaborations go beyond the university sector, also including non-university research institutions as well as stakeholders from politics, business, and civil society.
In this way, the program contributes, among other things, to building expertise and developing innovative, locally adapted solutions on the topics of climate and health in countries of the Global South as well as in Germany. For this purpose, the Federal Foreign Office (AA) provides the DAAD with funds from the cultural relations and education policy.
