Advisory Board | APPEAR (Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education & Research for Development)

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

Terms of Reference APPEAR Advisory Board

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 - EP-Nuffic
James Otieno Jowi - African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE)
Anne Blenkinsopp - Loughborough University
Helvi Ileka - Namibia University of Science & Technology