The President of Mozambique visits Hohenheim:
Collaboration is assured [05.11.07]
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An exciting future awaits Mozambican and Hohenheim academics: "Declaration of Intention" signed by Hohenheim and Mozambique
On Friday 2 November 2007 Armando Emílio Guebuza, the President of Mozambique, visited the Universität Hohenheim during his five-day visit to Germany. The focus of his visit was the signing of the "Declaration of Intention", which will elevate research collaboration to a new plane.
The Mozambicans were also highly interested in the ultra-modern biogas laboratory that was opened at the end of 2004. The University is contributing much in the way of knowledge and expertise to this field and the future biogas plant on the Unterer Lindenhof will provide the Universität Hohenheim with a highly-efficient supply of biogas. Research is currently being carried out there to establish which renewable raw materials achieve the best efficiency with which conversion techniques.
Drive to the Hohenheim Castle: The President of Mozambique H. E. Armando Emílio Guebuza
"Your visit confirms that, even while we are setting it up, our biogas research platform in Baden-Württemberg has succeeded in generating international visibility for us," explained Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Liebig, Rector of the Universität Hohenheim, to his Excellency President Armando Emílio Guebuza. "Generating interest should be a requirement and an obligation on our part."
By signing the "Declaration of Intention," the Universität Hohenheim is again turning its attention towards Africa in terms of research projects. In recent years Hohenheim researchers within the Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics had completed their projects in West Africa and had shifted their focus much more towards Asia. Prior to that there had been a 12-year long period of intensive research with Benin and Niger, which the German Research Foundation had classified as priority research by funding a collaborative research centre. Hohenheim and African scientists had been working on agricultural potential and the preservation of soil fertility, amongst other fields. "Following this success in West Africa, we now want to concentrate more intensively on East and South-East Africa," the Rector went on to say.
Signing the visitors' book: The President of Mozambique H. E. Armando Emílio Guebuza
The report published by the German Science Council in 1995 corroborated the Universität Hohenheim’s excellent international work by the Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics, which brought together inter-faculty expertise from the fields of biology nutrition, food technology, agriculture, business and sociology and utilised their specialist knowledge in countries located in the Tropics.
The "Declaration of Intention" will work towards improving the agriculture of Mozambique. The declaration was signed by Prof. Liebig, Rector of the Universität Hohenheim and Prof. Dr. Eng. Venancio Massingue, Minister of Science and Technology in the Republic of Mozambique.
"An initial measure might be to enable young scientists from Mozambique to acquire development-orientated and Tropics-related training and education at the Universität Hohenheim", stated Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Liebig. With its five international Masters courses, two of which are specifically concerned with development and Tropics-related agriculture, nutrition and environmental science, the Universität Hohenheim can offer a particularly wide range of courses.
Toast to the collaboration: Minister of Science and Technology Massingue, the President of Mosambique H. E. Guebuza, Ministerialdirigent Württemberger, Rector Liebig
Walk through the Hohenheim Castle: Rector Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Liebig with the President of Mozambique H. E. Armando Emílio Guebuza
