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As one part of the ACCESS Summer School 2023, our partner University of Ibadan from Nigeria is hosting an Employability Conference from 30th of July – 1st of August 2023 in the city of Abuja. The conference is led under the topic “Cultivating New Frontiers in Employability Research for Skills

The awards ceremony of the “University of Ideas” competition 2022 was held on the 18th of January 2023, as part of the iN4iN Conference organized by the SEPT Competence Center, Leipzig University. The Ideas competition seeks to identify innovative ideas, large and small, that can stimulate the development of the

Last week on the 18th and 19th of January, the team of ACCESS was pleased to take part in the iN4iN (Intelligence for Innovation) Conference 2023 at Leipzig University, which was hosted under the title “USE OF DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP COACHING AND TEACHING”. As one part of the agenda,

In August and September 2022, ACCESS Rwanda in cooperation with the Musanze Employment Centre, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and GIZ organised stakeholder meetings to discuss current challenges regarding the employment of graduates from higher education institutions, internship and placement negotiations, information sharing and training and coaching students in subject-specific

Text: Ghofrane Bounouh The main purpose of The African Centre for Career Enhancement & Skills Support (ACCESS) is to develop new teaching methods to increase the chances of employability for African students. In this process, we work together with companies, universities and students. Our activities are focussed on four main

It had not been possible for a long time due to problems with visa issuance: Finally, our Tunisian ACCESS partners Prof. Dr. Hamadi Tizaoui (Board Member) and Ghofrane Bounouh (Project Coordinator) were able to visit Leipzig from October 9-14, 2022. On Monday and Tuesday, the focus was on working with

In collaboration with partners from the chair of Management and Economics of Innovation at the Leipzig University, the ACCESS project offers an intensive workshop series at the beginning of the year 2023! The series will address Ideation and Entrepreneurship Support through various tailor made sessions for the core partners of

Additional workshops are coming at the end of the year! In the context of the ACCESS project, Leipzig University will offer two additional workshops which will start in 2022 and continue through additional sessions in the upcoming year. Starting with an introduction in Grant Proposal Writing, we will initiate a

One of the goals of the ACCESS project is to provide teachers at the African partner universities with a broad knowledge base for their work and to support them with both theoretical and practical methods. For this purpose, the idea of a Wiki was developed and implemented. The main goal

Three ACCESS PhD Student Researchers have presented papers at the 4th Ghana Studies Association Conference,2022, in Ghana. The three days event took place on 18th -20th July at Tamale in Ghana, under the theme: “Ghana at Crossroads.” ACCESS PhD Students Emmanuel Agyemang, Temitope Faloye and Theophile Shiramunda had the following