Coordinator: Prof. Ahmad Addo
Client: GIZ Accra office, No. 7 Volta Street, Airport Residential Area, Accra
Client Contact Person: Belinda Knorr
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Project Partners:
- German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Name of the Project/Activity: Climate and Resource Protection for Sustainable Economic Development in Ghana
Value of contract: €87,441
Years of project duration; November 2013 to date
Countries covered; Ghana, Germany
Short project description:
- To ensure a reliable, stable energy supply at KNUST University through integration of renewable energies and to develop innovative measures for this purpose
- To establish exemplary pilot and demonstration plants in the fields of renewable energies as well as energy and resource efficiency on the KNUST campus in order to strengthen practice-oriented, applied tuition and research in this areas and to grow the cooperation partners’ competence portfolio
- To expand the competencies of University teaching staff, PhD candidates and students at the partner institutions in the focus subjects of the cooperation
- To provide support with the acquisition and implementation of individual as well as common research projects