The Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) organized the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) University Day Baden-Württemberg in cooperation with the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute at the University of Freiburg. The focus of the event was SDG 17: Partnerships. De-colonizing Partnerships.
More than 170 visitors took part in the manifold program with a keynote speech by the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Science, a panel discussion, interactive workshops and a final discussion.
How can global partnerships of universities in Baden-Württemberg be decolonized? And what role do state politics and university structures play in this? These and other questions were discussed at the SDG University Day by participants from politics and universities. Mutual respect but also the removal of structural asymmetries between research partners from the "Global North" and the "Global South" were two of the demands that emerged from the SDG University Day.
Read the full report here (german).
A commentary by students of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and the University of Ghana about their impressions has been published as a video. Watch the video "Impressions of the SDG University Day 2023 in Freiburg".
Akua Agyapong, a student at the University of Ghana and participant in the ASA project "Decolonize Universities", conducted interviews with participants from various institutions as part of the University Day:
Radio Dreyeckland also published a radio report on the SDG University Day. Listen to the report here (german).
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