Advisory Board
The Advisory Board advises the ADA and the APPEAR office in technical and strategic issues (e.g. international developments and the resulting challenges for the programme) and contributes on a meta-level to the further development of the programme. Relevant partners from Austria, Europe and the so-called global South are involved for the program.The Advisory Board of the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research - APPEAR has the following tasks:
- Strategic feedback and adjustment of the programme to international developments in the field of higher education and research for development
- Contribution for further development of the programme
Members of the Advisory Board
- Reinhold Gruber, Federal Ministry of Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs - Chair of the Board
- Erwin Künzi, Representative of Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
- Christian Gollubits, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
- Hannah Akuffo, Sida
- Beer Schroder, Nuffic
- James Otieno Jowi, African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE)
- Anne Blenkinsopp, Loughborough University
- Helvi Ileka, Namibia University of Science & Technology