Partnership and Collaborators

The German partner universities collaborate with the Doctoral Programs through:

• Curriculum development
• Visiting professorship
• Co-supervision of graduate students
• In addition, West African students and faculty members are given the opportunity to conduct research at German universities or to visit counterpart research institutions in the USA, South Africa, France
• The overall program is coordinated by the Capacity Building Department of WASCAL in Accra, Ghana

• Research Institutes: e,g CAR-NASRDA, CRET
• Government Agencies: e.g NiMet, NASRDA, MoEnv
• National & International Universities: e.g OAU, Ife, UCT, South Africa

Collaborators

• Collaboration with the climate change unit of the Federal Ministry of Environment
• Technical support in the use of High-Performance Computer (HPC) cluster by ICTP
• MoU with local organizations
  • Centre for Atmospheric Research, Anyigba, Nigeria
  • Institute for Dry land Agriculture, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
• Collaboration with Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in the following areas:
  • Data Exchange
  • Training, Teaching and Supervision of Students
  • Exchange of technical support in NWP research
  • Joint Research in weather and Climate Studies