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Climate and Resource protection (NRW-KNUST) Fact Sheet

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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Telephone:

Project Partners

  1. German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  2. 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