NOMA -Students doing extensive field-work in Tigray

News and events // 30.07.2010 //

Since the beginning of June, about 15 former and current NOMA-students from Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Norway have been doing field-work under the Master programme in Development and Natural Resource Economics connected to their MSc theses in 17 locations all over Tigray Region

News and events // 19.07.2010 //

Knut Sydsæter, Professor Emeritus from the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo, has worked on improving mathematics for economists in several African countries since 1990. Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Ethiopia have been the core countries for the project. The Embassy of Norway in Addis Abeba has supported the Ethiopian edition of “Further Mathematics for Economists”, written by Prof. ...

News and events // 11.03.2010 //

“The River Nile in the Post Colonial Age” written by professor Terje Tvedt, University of Bergen, details the modern development of the Nile Basin and the efforts to manage its waters.

News and events // 17.02.2010 //

The next Nordic Africa Days (NAD) will take place at Åbo Akademi University in Åbo/Turku in Finland on 30 September to 1 October 2010. The deadline for proposing panels and papers has been extended until 1 March 2010.

Photo: Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa

News and events // 22.01.2010 //

Ato Debela Amante, a linguistics PhD student at the University of Oslo, is planning an academic conference on the Oromo language to take place in Addis Ababa later this year.

News and events // 16.03.2010 //

During a visit to Mekelle University on the 6th of March, representatives from the Embassy of Norway had the pleasure of meeting eight of altogether nine students from Norway, Malawi,Uganda and Ethiopia who are taking part in the The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperations (Norad) Programme for Master Studies (NOMA), here with emphasis on Natural Resource Managment.

News and events // 24.02.2010 //

Students of intercultural understanding from NLA University College in Bergen, Norway are on a field trip in Ethiopia and Kenya. In Addis Ababa they have received lectures and attended events on relations between Christianity and Islam.

News and events // 05.02.2010 //

An evaluation team has visited various Ethiopian universities to get a grasp of the results of the Norwegian higher education and research programmes Norwegian Programme for Development, Research and Education (NUFU) and of Norad’s Programme for Master Studies (NOMA).

News and events // 13.01.2010 //

The third Bergen Summer Research School on Global Development Challenges (BSRS), with the theme "Global Health in Bio-Medical, Social and Cultural Perspectives", is going to be organised by the University of Bergen from 21 june to 2 July 2010.

NOMA -Students doing extensive field-work in Tigray

Embassy supports 500 copies of”Further Mathematics for Economics” for Mekelle University

New book on the Nile by Norwegian professor

Nordic Africa Days 2010

Oromo language conference in Addis Ababa

Nine NOMA students at Mekelle University

Norwegian students of interculturalism in Ethiopia

Good results of higher education and research programmes in Ethiopia

Bergen Summer Research School 2010

Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa