Hanna Grønås Schanke: New trainee

News and events // Last updated: 14.02.2011 //

She has a versatile background, and has lived in France, Tanzania and Ethiopia. And now she is back, eager to learn more about the country in which she did fieldwork for her MA.

News and events // Last updated: 13.01.2011 //

As a social-anthropologist and photographer Norwegian Thera Mjaaland has been researching the conditions for women in the Endabaguna area in Tigray-region where she has been involved for the last 17 years. She is also concerned about the tendency of portraying Ethiopian women as “victimized”, and wants to show them as she has come to know them; strong, independent and with a “fighting spirit”.

News and events // Last updated: 26.11.2010 //

A lecture by Dr.Yacob Arsano. Wednesday 15 December 2010, 15.15 – 17.00, at Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Lecture hall 2, Gamla Torget 3, Uppsala, Sweden.

News and events // Last updated: 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 // Last updated: 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 // Last updated: 23.12.2010 //

Alumni Association of Ethiopians Educated in Norwegian Universities (AAEENU) was launched on 18 November 2010 in the presence of Mr. Rolf Ree, Duty Head of Mission, Norwegian Embassy, Dr. Admasu Tsegaye, President, Hawassa University, and Dr. Kindeya Gebrehiwot, Vice-President, Mekelle University. The association is believed to facilitate networking and communication among the Alumni...

News and events // Last updated: 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 // Last updated: 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.

Prof. Habtamu Wondimu is lecturing Norwegian students in Addis Ababa.
Photo: Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa.

News and events // Last updated: 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.

Hanna Grønås Schanke: New trainee

Thera Mjaaland: Long-term involvement among Tigrayan women on the grassroots level

Beyond Drops of Water: Four Imperatives for Cooperation in the Nile Basin

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

New book on the Nile by Norwegian professor

Ethiopia/Norway Alumni Association Launched

NOMA -Students doing extensive field-work in Tigray

Nine NOMA students at Mekelle University

Norwegian students of interculturalism in Ethiopia

Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis Ababa