Call For Applications – Latin America Regional Alumni Capacity Building and Networking Seminar

“Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Governance andPolicy Making in Latin America – A Cross-country Learning Exchange” 22 – 28 September 2024 in La Plata, Argentina Designed as a cross-country learning exchange, this regional alumni seminar will look at environmental development problems across Latin America from an interdisciplinary and actor-oriented perspective. It addresses scientists and practitioners

Reflection on the WoodCluster Project teaching component

The WoodCluster project consists of two components: Teaching and Research, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through DAAD and DLR, respectively. While the teaching module concluded in 2021, the research module continues up to 2022. The following summarizes the major deliverables of the teaching module and reflects on the

Alumni success story: Japhet Noah Mwambusi and his passion in silviculture

Japhet Noah Mwambusi was a DAAD scholarship holder in our MSc course “Tropical Forestry” batch of 2017-2019. He did his master’s thesis research on “Silvicultural Treatments of Woodlots of Smallholder Forest Producers and their Relation to the Timber Market in Mufindi District, Tanzania”, which contributed to the WoodCluster project. Recently in November, one part of

Students elaborating business models of forest organizations

In the module “Forest Organizations and Management”, our MSc students had the task to elaborate business models of various forest organizations. In a course of two days, the students came to the campus in Tharandt to conduct group work. This was the only chance in this summer semester that the master students returned to the

Call for DAAD Scholarship Applications

Your are invited to attend the 2021 MSc Course in TROPICAL FORESTRY. The course is taught in English at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), one of the 11 German Universities of Excellence.Over many decades, the international orientation and socio-economic focus have made this 2-year MSc course unique in Europe. You will benefit from the international background

Tropical Forestry work and study life in times of COVID-19

The global pandemic of COVID-19 changed the work and social life of our institute from one day to the other, like almost every else’s one in the world. Since 21 March, the TU Dresden operates in emergency mode. Only a limited number of staff is allowed to be at the offices. Everyone else works from