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Regulations and political support are critical to accelerating the deployment of mini-grids in Sub-Saharan Africa. By providing clear guidelines, and financial incentives, and creating an enabling environment, governments can attract private sector investment. An important tool to facilitate private… [read more]

GBSN is very excited to announce its third year hosting the Africa Business Concept Challeng (ABCC).  ABCC intends to assist young people from the African continent who have an entrepreneurial orientation and a desire to serve their community.Student teams engage in a four-phased project development… [read more]

We cordially invite  doctoral candidates to the 2nd Summer School of Linde Engineering in cooperation with the Munich Institute of Integrated Materials, Energy and Process Engineering at TUM and Hochschule München entitled “Enabling the Transition to a New Energy System”. With climate change… [read more]

During the 2022 SEED Annual Symposium at IIT Bombay, the TUM SEED Center director, Prof. Dr. Frank-Martin Belz, granted two Ph.D. Scholarships relating “SEED Entrepreneurship in the Global South” to Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Namibia University of Science and… [read more]

On 25.11.2022 the steering committee (project coordinators and scientific directors) held a two-hour meeting to conclude the annual symposium 2022 at IITB in Mumbai, India. At the beginning of the meeting, Prof. Frank-Martin Belz thanked the IITB team for their outstanding organization and hosting… [read more]

At the beginning of October 2022 the Director of the TUM SEED Center, Prof. Dr. Frank-Martin Belz, visited the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) to engage in academic exchange. On the first day, he was welcomed by Dr. Colin Stanley, the Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research,… [read more]

When we left the national road and crossed the dry river bed with the four-wheel jeeps, policemen welcomed us behind the iron bridge. My mind started spinning: Did they want to control us? Did we do anything wrong? Or is it so dangerous to go to the outskirt of Windhoek and visit the community of… [read more]

One billion people worldwide lack access to electricity - remote and isolated regions are especially affected by this. For this reason, our TUM master students Ekaterina Braun and Anna-Sophie Kreipp decided to conduct their project study in Rural Uganda. As part of an academic exchange program, they… [read more]

Our core research team at the TUM SEED Center is getting larger! We welcome three new researchers from our partner universities, JKUAT and Makerere, in Kenya and Uganda. Dr. Sendawula Kasimu is a postdoctoral fellow at the TUM SEED Center with a Ph.D. in management from Makerere University. He is… [read more]

Bouchra Lamhamedi, a SEED doctoral researcher, had the opportunity to participate in the ‘Land Governance for Development’ Summer School in Utrecht, the Netherlands, organized by LANDac-the Netherlands Land Academy- and Utrecht University, from 4 to 15 July 2022. This summer school provides a… [read more]