European Academic Network for Capacity Development in Climate Change Adaptations in Africa

The NetCDA project takes a long-term approach to strengthening and better networking academic education on climate change adaptation strategies in Africa. A sustainable implementation of this project will be achieved in three steps: (i) In the short term, PhD students of graduate schools of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) will be supported and co-supervised. (ii) In the medium term, the German network of WASCAL graduate schools will be strengthened and (iii) in the long term, an academic network will be initiated that brings together climate change researchers from Europe and Africa who are active in education. The first year of project implementation has successfully past, thus the current status and taken steps as well as the further ideas will be presented. Important for the future success of the project will specifically be, to find the right measures to move from a West Africa focused approach to a more general approach to cover the whole continent.