Over the past seven years, German higher education institutes and their international partners have established seven SDG Graduate Schools worldwide with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This brochuere makes the work of the graduate schools concrete and tangible.

The climapAfrica Women’s Group wants to improve working and living conditions for female scientists in Africa, raise their profile in climate science, and highlight the fact that they are particularly affected by climate change.

New DAAD Climate Factsheet shows activities and impacts of DAAD programmes in the field of climate.

The next virtual Coffee Talk of DIWH Tokyo will take place on 16 May on the topic of biodiversity.

The first HSI Monitor thematic workshop with higher education institutions on data and data collection on "Gender and University Internationality" took place on 28 April.

Female researchers are underrepresented around the world. But there are also reasons for hope. Read about some positive examples of academic advancement for women in Africa.

A joint publication of the SDG Graduate College trAndeS and the University Alliance for Sustainability (UAS) points out innovative ways towards more sustainability at universities worldwide.

After the Global Centres for Health and Pandemic Prevention, the Climate Centres have now also celebrated their opening (recording can be viewed on the website).

Researchers from the Franco-German MOPGA programme (Make Our Planet Great Again) offer insights into their work in weekly web seminars.

This is also the motivation for the African scientists in the BMBF-funded climapAfrica programme. In the working group on Biodiversity, they are researching the responses of plants and animals to climate stressors and seeking solutions for ecosystem management and restoration.

As part of the Futurium Berlin's video series "The next Big Thing", MOPGA-GRI Fellow Henry C. Wu explains what corals tell us about climate change. The MOPGA-GRI programme ("Make our Planet great again - German Research Initiative") is funded by the BMBF and implemented by the DAAD.

The DAAD Regional Office in Mexico City has switched to a sustainable power supply. The Project was incorporated as a pilot initiative as part of an overall structural project to improve sustainability management throughout the DAAD as a whole.

Learning together and establishing valuable contacts at a trade fair: BIOFACH 2021 was the first DAAD Alumni Special Project to be held as a fully virtual format. Researchers and executives from the global south speak about the experience.

How can we adapt internationalisation of higher education and science to the goals of climate protection? The DAAD therefore discusses pathways to sustainable academic mobility.

Numerous national and international networks are working for greater sustainability in higher education – an overview.