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A total of 32 partners came to our consortium meeting at Bosch in Stuttgart. And some of them had a long journey. Tor and Jarle came from Norway, Rudi and Gerald travelled from Austria, Roland came from Switzerland, and Koen and Joachim toured from Belgium to Stuttgart. Other project partners came from the South, North, East and West of Germany. In four workshops we coordinated and determined the next project steps for setting up manufacturing plants in Southern Africa for photovoltaics, electrolysis and air capturing to supply our large scaled green hydrogen projects on the African continent.
Start of the “Pan African Technology Transfer University” at COP27
The Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg is a co-initiator of the new “Pan African Technology Transfer University” for green technologies and green transformation with a main focus on the green hydrogen value chain. The declaration on the foundation of the new university was announced on 11 November 2022 at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh during an official event at the United Nations Climate Change ‘Global Innovation Hub’ (UGIH) pavilion with ministers and representatives from Egypt, Namibia and Mauritania. University campuses will be established in key green hydrogen centers in Africa. The main campus will be built in Windhoek. Here, major green hydrogen projects will be implemented in the coming years. Further locations are planned in Egypt and Mauritania. Other countries are welcome to join this pan-African initiative.
The university is supported by UGIH of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Industry Development Organization (UNIDO). Steinbeis University and the Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg are leading the establishment of the new PAN African Technology Transfer University in cooperation with African partner universities.
The programs will be in the areas of education, training and skills development. Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs as well as certified short-term training courses will be offered. In addition, training courses for professionals are offered together with German partners such as TÜV and German training centers. The uniqueness of this university is the direct linkage of all training and education programs with “real-life” green industry localization projects on the African continent.
Mr. Massamba Thioye, Project lead Executive of UGIH for the UNFCCC, and Prof. Dr. Bertram Lohmüller are looking forward to launching the first job-integrated education and training programs along the green hydrogen value chain in the first quarter of 2023.
From 6 to 18 November, heads of state, ministers and negotiators, as well as climate activists, mayors, civil society representatives and business leaders, will gather in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh for the largest annual meeting on climate action.
The 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP27 – will build on the outcomes of COP26 to forge action on a range of issues critical to addressing the climate emergency – from urgently reducing greenhouse gas emissions, building resilience and adapting to the inevitable impacts of climate change to delivering commitments on climate finance in developing countries.
Faced with a growing energy crisis, record concentrations of greenhouse gases and an increase in extreme weather events, COP27 seeks to strengthen solidarity among countries to implement the landmark Paris Agreement for the benefit of people and the planet.
Export-Akademie and Steinbeis Global Institute Tübingen welcomed the Academic Alliance Mission from Andhra Pradesh. Under the leadership of Prof. Reddy, Chairman of the State Council for Higher Education Andhra Pradesh (APSCHE), a delegation of 20 university rectors and industry leaders visited the campus of Steinbeis University in Stuttgart.
Student admission requirements for employment linked master applicants from Andhra Pradesh were specified. Besides, both parties agreed to collaborate on green technology and to promote research in hydrogen energy. Therefore, a MoU with the DSE consortium (DGNI, SGIT, EABW) was signed to establish the production of green hydrogen in the technical universities of Andhra Pradesh.
The DSE consortium and Steinbeis India are very looking forward to working together on establishing a green hydrogen ecosystem for Andhra Pradesh.
At the invitation of the Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy, experts from the Export Academy participated in an Andhra Pradesh government roundtable at the World Economic Forum 2022. Prof. Dr. Bertram Lohmüller, Mr. Thomas Wu and Mr. Raj Venkat discussed the actual challenges in education and skill development in India with the minister. There was agreement that new ways of knowledge transfer are needed for the transfer of theoretical topics from schools and universities to industry. One option is the Project Competence Program at Steinbeis University, where students implement a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme in a company or organisation. In order to bring this model to India it is planned to establish a “German-India Center for Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Development” where students have the possibility to work on “real” projects with Indian and German companies/organisations.
The new African center of excellence for advanced battery research between Steinbeis University and University of Lubumbashi is now launched officially. The signing ceremony was held on 22th April 2022 in Lubumbashi with participation of four minsters from DRC (minister of industry, minister of mining, minister of research & innovation, minister of higher education). As a new non-profit organization, the new institute is also the first official nominated national leading research institute of DRC. Further partners are University of Zambia, Copperbelt University Zambia, Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg, DGNI and further universities and research centers from Japan. The center will be located in a special economic zone for battery production at the border between DRC and Zambia. In the center industry-related research and education is conducted and the framework for a new high-performance battery is under development. Also, new business models in line with a circular economy approach are investigated and implemented. For this, local and international partners from financial sector and industry are involved.
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At the end of 2019, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltige Industrialisierung (DGNI), Steinbeis Global Institute Tübingen (SGIT) and Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg (EABW) started developing a comprehensive localization concept for the entire value chain for green hydrogen production in Africa.
It was the first initiative worldwide to establish leading-edge and sustainable technologies and value creation on the African continent in order to exploit the enormous energy resources in the SADC region.
Today, 22 cutting-edge European technology companies have joined forces to form a consortium for implementing the Green Hydrogen Africa Initiative. The goal is to create the world’s leading provider of energy, water treatment, electrolysis and direct air capture solutions.
The name of the consortium is DSE.
“Innovation in green technologies and digitisation are the key to successfully mastering the challenges of the future. With new green and digital technologies and a new management approach with our GreenIMLead® concept, new solutions and ways can be created to slow down climate change and to raise living standards in emerging countries.”
Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg is a training and consulting organization with focus on green technologies and digitization. For this, the GreenIMLead® concept for integrated green technology management & leadership was developed. Together with partners world-wide green projects are developed and competence centers for green technologies and digitisation are established. The focus regions are Africa, India, South America as well as Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
“Innovation in green technologies and digitisation are the key to successfully mastering the challenges of the future. With new green and digital technologies and a new management approach with our GreenIMLead® concept, new solutions and ways can be created to slow down climate change and to raise living standards in emerging countries.”