BCGE Guests
Dr. Kwadwo Owusu Akuffo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, had a research stay at Dr. Hanna Zimmermann, Charité
BCGE Calls enable mobility and cooperation with civil society actors, among other things – the picture shows Dr. Helen Niemeyer (FU Berlin) with local communities in Turkana, Kenya.
With its Flexible Travel Funds, BCGE enables mobilities of scientists between Berlin and countries in the "Global South." In this way, short-term research stays can be realized and collaborations can be initiated or deepened.
In 2025, four researchers shared their experience in an article on the website of Freie Universität Berlin (cf. link below)
2026:
Dr. Rafdison Hasivelo Kanto, Institute of Medicine / Implementation Research, NGO Doctors for Madagascar, KAP Study on Stroke and Hypertension in Anosy and Atsimo-Andrefana region, Madagascar
Host: Dr. Samuel Knauss, Charité – Universitätsmedizin
Prof. Dr. Demaine J. Solomons, Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch University, Cooperative Security - a bicontinental peace ethics project
Host: Prof. Dr. Torsten Meireis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Ana Belén Ávila, Department of Natural Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Habitat selection of reintroduced jaguars in a rewilding area in Argentina
Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Kuemmerle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Adama Hilou, Laboratory of Biochemistry & Applied Chemistry (LABIOCA), Joseph Ki-Zerbo University, Building a Transdisciplinary Collaboration on the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Burkina Faso. Bridging Science and Practice through the Case of Fermented Dyes
Host: Dr. Laurence Douny, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Mareike Wulff, Institute of African and Asian Studies / Zentralasien-Seminar/ Regionalwissenschaften Bhutan, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Host: Tshering Wangchuck, Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan
Dr. Elisa García González, Dialectology, Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística José Antonio Portuondo Valdor, Digital Preservation and Dialectal Analysis of Cuban Oral Heritage
Host: Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Mariam Nikravech, Education for Sustainable Nutrition and Food Science, Institute of Vocational Education and Work Studies, Technische Universität Berlin
Host: Prof. Dr. Andréa Cristina Dörr, Center of Rural Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Facundo Martín, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Geografía, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo; CONICET, Real utopias in agriculture: Social-ecological transformations in times of democratic backsliding
Host: Prof. Dr. Bettina Engels, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Karla Barrantes Chaves, Escuela de Ingeniería Topográfica, Universidad de Costa Rica, Bridging the science-policy interface: Further development of the research project “Value capture mechanisms to finance urban facilities and green infrastructure for water management in coastal cantons”
Host: Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa, Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Melike Yiğit Koyunkaya, Department of Mathematics and Science Education / Mathematikdidaktik, Dokuz Eylul University, Comparing mathematics teaching / learning
Host: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Jablonka, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof Dr Molekodi Matsipane, School of Nursing, North-West University, Perinatal Mental Health in Rural South Africa: A Co-creation Seminar
Host: Dr. Angel Phuti, Charité
Professor Dr. Facundo Quiroga Martínez, Department of Economics, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Educational Trajectories, Credentials and Labor Market Inequality in the Southern Cone
Host: Junior Professor Dr. Manuel Santos Silva, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Robert Jackisch, Institute of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning / Geoinformation in Environmental Planning, Technische Universität Berlin
Hosts: Prof. Dr. Kirti Kusum Joshi, Dr. Rajib Suba, Madan Bhandari University of Science and Technology (MBUST), Chitlang, Nepal
Prof. Beby Ramanivosoa, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement, Université de Mahajanga, Wrap-up and solidification of a collaborative dinosaur research project in Madagascar
Host: Dr. Emanuel Tschopp, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr.-Ing. James Wamai Mwangi, Mechatronic Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Collaborative research on e-mobility in East Africa
Host: PD Dr.-Ing. Sören Müller, Technische Universität Berlin
Monolita Chatterjee, Architect, Partner Design combine, Indian Institute of Architects, Kerala Chapter, Vice Chair, Co-creating streets of Kochi, Kerala, for idle time of women
Host: Prof. Dr. Anke Hagemann, Technische Universität Berlin
2025:
Dr. A. Kouam, Machine Learning and Security (MLSec), BIFOLD, TU Berlin, Mapping and Regulating Informal Urban Mobility Through Mobile Data: A Case Study in Yaoundé and Beyond
Host: Hyppolite Tapamo, Department of Computer Science, University of Yaounde, Cameroun
Dr. C. Correa Salazar, Department of Psychology, Universidad de los Andes, Transgenerational transmission of trauma - a cross-cultural perspective
Host: Dr. Maria Böttche, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. D. Roca Servat, Instituto de Estudios Regionales, Universidad de Antioquia, Strengthening South-North Collaboration on Water & Society Nexus through Latin American Perspectives
Host: Prof. Tobias Krüger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Sebastian Fiedler, Fakultät VI, Institut für Ökologie, Pflanzenökologie, Technische Universität Berlin, Joint Research Proposal Development on Integrating Stakeholder Participation and Simulation Modeling for Long-Term Ecosystem Restoration
Host: Dr. Mchich Derak, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco
Dr. Torsten Jost, FB Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Exzellenzcluster 2020 "Temporal Communities", Freie Universität Berlin, Launching the “Afterlives of Resistances” Project (FUB & JNU)
Host: Prof. Dr. Bishnupriya Dutt, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Innocent B. Mboya, Africa Academy for Public Health (AAPH), Mental health and nutrition among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: Strengthening research collaboration between partners in Germany and Tanzania
Host: Dr. Shuyan Liu, Charité
Dr. Tresphory Zumba, Biomedical Research and Clinical Trials Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Visiting Scholarship for Lung Health Research and Grant Development Collaboration
Host: PD Dr. Thomas Zoller, Charité
Dr. Pinkus Tober-Lau, Medical Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Charité, Study planning and initiation visit, scientific collaboration for RTS,S malaria vaccine roll-out in Togo
Host: Dr. Richard Gantin Gbandi, Laboratoire ONCHO, Centre Hospitalier Régional (CHR) de Sokodé, Togo
Arnold P. Alamon, Department of Sociology, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Post-Duterte Scholar Activism in the Philippines in Transregional Perspective
Host: Prof. Andrea Fleschenberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Danny Wamba Love Djukem, State Key Laboratory of Geohazards Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Landslide hazard and risk in Cameroon
Host: Dr. Anika Braun, Technische Universität Berlin
Dr. Abida Bano, Department of Political Science, University of Peshawar, Continuing and deepening collaborative projects
Host: Dr. Sarah Holz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Ricardo Cordova Macías, Fundación Dr. Guillermo Ungo, Conference and article
Host: Prof. Dr. Günther Maihold, Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Faimau, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Botswana, Religious Social Practice in the Context of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence
Host: Dr. Philipp Öhlmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Martin Luna, CONICET, Modeling, Optimization and Automation for Biotech Laboratories
Host: Prof. Dr. Peter Neubauer, Technische Universität Berlin
Dr MD Kashif Shamim, Department of Physics, Patliputra University, Photodetectors based on novel and environmental friendly ferroelectric materials
Host: Prof. Dr. Lousia Reissig, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Rupam Bhaduri, Centre for Distaster Management and Research, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Research visit of Rupam Bhaduri
Host: Dr. Márk Rudolf Somogyvári, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hasina Khan, Bebaak Collective (Voices of the Fearless), Mumbai,Democratizing the Family: Lesbian Muslim Women's Rights Activism in Mumbai
Host: Dr. Jana Tschurenev, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Laura Vanina Madoz, Animal Reproduction Research Institute, National University of La Plata, Healthy animals - strong and sustainable agriculture
Host: Prof. Dr. Marc Drillich, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor Victoria Peterson, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Santa FE, Bridging Non-Invasive and Invasive Neural Decoding for Intelligent Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation
Host: Prof. Dr. med. Wolf-Julian Neumann, Charité – Universitätsmedizin
Jane Mangwana, African Population and Research Health Center, Health Policy 2025 and beyond: Survey of policymakers and outlook report
Host: Dr. Branwen Hennig, Charité – Universitätsmedizin
2024:
Prof. Dr. Zukhra C. Kadirova, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Understanding the effect of adsorption energy of water molecules and intermediates on solar water splitting
Host: Dr. Mirabbos Khujamberdiev, TU Berlin
Dr. Helena Couto Junqueira, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Sustainable expertise and knowledge for the South American key lab for time-resolved detection related to reactive oxygen species
Host: PD Dr. Steffen Hackbarth, Institut für Physik, HU Berlin
Rossana Perrone, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay, Scientific conference (ICN 2024), Networking, Guest Seminar
Host: Prof. Dr. Mathias F. Wernet, Institut für Biologie, FU Berlin
Dr. Jean Nyaboke Keraka, Kenya, Building cooperations between the law faculties of Kenyatta University and Humboldt University and comparative legal research into communal land rights and Germany’s ‘social obligation norm in property law’
Host: Prof. Dr. Philipp Dann, Chair for Public Law and Comparative Law, HU Berlin
Antsa Fitiavana Randrianantoanina and Riana Samoelina Ramanantsoa, Doctors for Madagascar, Analysing the effects and effectiveness of NGO-led development cooperation in the rural South of Madagascar – a joint research project between the university of Antananarivo, the NGO Doctors for Madagascar, and the Charité Center for Global Health.
Host: PD Dr. med. Julius Emmrich, Department for Neurology, Charité
Prof. tit. Dr. Adilen Carpio Camacho, Facultad de Ciencias Técnicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Sancti Spíritus (UNISS), Kuba, Vocational education and training as a contribution to economic transformations in Cuba
Host: PD Dr. Stefan Wolf, Department of TVET and School Pedagogy, TU Berlin
Dr. Nadine Muller, Charité Center for Global Health, Strengthening collaborative initiatives in HIV and TB care and cross-sectoral partnerships between Charité Center for Global Health and policy, re- search, and civil society partners in Madagascar
Host: Dr. Norosoa Rakotoherimor, National HIV Program, Ministry of Health Madagascar
Elijah Sunday Okwuonu, Parasitology and Public Health, University of Nigeria, Molecular characterization of haemosporidian (malaria) parasites of cave-dwelling bats
Host: Dr. Juliane Schaer, Institute of Biology, Molecular Parasitology, HU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gaurav Raheja, IIT Roorkee, India, Research field building/writing: From Urban Inclusivity to Urban Sustainability
Host: Prof. Angela Million, Urban Design and Urban Development, TU Berlin
Dr. Anne Josiane Kouam Djuigne, Machine Learning and Security (MLSec), BIFOLD, TU Berlin, Leveraging AI for Detecting Simbox Fraud in Mobile Networks: A Collaborative Initiative with Cameroon
Host: With various partners in Cameroon
Fabien Nshimiyimana, Rwanda, Training in methods for and application of molecular epidemiology for surveillance and management of antimalarial resistance markers.
Host: Dr. Welmoed van Loon, Institute of International Health, Charité
Dr. Alex Müller, Institute of International Health, Charité, Strengthening collaborations for LGBTQI health and rights in Southern Africa
Host: With various partners in South Africa
Prof. Talja Blokland, Department of Social Sciences, HU Berlin, Development of next cooperative work, Urban Life under COVID19
Host: Dr. Felipe Link, COES Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social, Santiago, Chile
Dr. Talja Meer, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, HU Berlin, Reconnecting and establishing collaboration in German-SA comparative research, gender, health and justice
Host: With various partners in South Africa
Dr. Helen Niemeyer, Clinical-Psychological Intervention, FU Berlin, Initiation and consolidation of research cooperation on mental health in specific populations in the Global South
Host: Researchers of the Global South At Kisii University Kenya, Department for Clinical-Psychological Intervention, Kisii University
Lucio Telles and Carlos Frederico Barbosa Pinheiro, Brasilien, Planetary Confluences: Streaming Riparian Solidarities, transdisciplinary festival at Floating Uni.Berlin
Host: Dr. Jamie-Scott Baxter, Chair of Urban Design, TU Berlin
2023:
Jonas Fahlbusch, Chair of Work Studies, Technology&Participation (ARTE), Technische Universität Berlin, Climate Caravan.
Host: Prof. Wei Zesong, Beijing Jiatong University, China
Rufus Nwoko, Research and educational institution, New Culture Studio - The Estate of Demas Nwoko, Nigeria, Participation and presentation at the two-day symposium "Atmosphere of alienation".
Host: Dr. Daniel Horn, Freie Universität
Dr. Alona Zharova, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sustainable Economic Development and Recommendations Systems supporting Energy-Efficiency in Private Households.
Host: Dr. Yaimary Marrero Ancìzar, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba
Miriam Fichtner, Experimental Neurology, Charité – Universität zu Berlin, Study of a cohort of turkish myasthenia gravis patients.
Host: Dr. Atay Vural, Koç University, Turkey
Li Fan, Institute for Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin, Joint policy paper for the research region Huangyan/Taizhou on urban-rural linkages.
Host: Dr. Remy Sietchiping, PhD, UN-Habitat, Kenya
Dr. Kabgov Hamdam Bobomurdovich, Laboratory of "Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry", V.I. Nikitin Institute of Chemistry, Tajikistan, Hydroecology and quantification of water balance in the cryosphere of the Western Pamirs.
Host: Dr. Jan Lentschke, Humboldt University
Dr. Felipe Fernández Lozano, Freie Universität, Workshop with doctoral students and researchers at Universidad Nacional de San Martín.
Host: Prof. Gabriel Vommaro, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina
Felipe Link, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, Staying supportive and social under COVID19: The relevance of social class, neighbor-hood and family composition in comparative perspective from Santiago der Chile to Berlin.
Host: Talja Blokland, Humboldt University
María Vegetti, INGAR - Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño, CONICET, Centro Científico Tecnológico Santa Fe, Argentina, Ontology Network for Automated Bioprocess Development.
Host: Dr. M. - Nicolas Cruz-Bournazou, Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Søren Salomo and Dr. Birgit Peña Häufler, Department Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Exploration of research and teaching collaboration with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Su-periores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico.
Host: Prof. Dr. José Carlos Miranda Valenzuela, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico
Dr. Mirabbos Khujamberdiev, Institute for Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Green Hydrogen for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Uzbekistan: An Indispensable Partnership with Germany.
Host: Prof. Zukhra Kadirova, Uzbekistan-Japan Innovation Center of Youth, Uzbekistan
Andrea Di Lorenzo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, EAALG Workshop 2023 "Some topics in Algebra and Geometry".
Host: Eastern Africa Algebra Research Group, Makerere University, Uganda
Prof. tit. Dr. Adilen Carpio Camacho, Facultad de Ciencias Técnicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Sancti Spíritus (UNISS), Cuba, Use of the Agile methodology in vocational training, train-ing and development of professional competences in the current Cuban company.
Host: PD Dr. Stefan Wolf, Dept of TVET and School Pedagogy, Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dina Aboul Fotouh Hussein Salama, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt, Arbeit am Netzwerk zu den Seven Sages of Rome / Expanding the Network on the Seven Sages of Rome.
Host: Prof. Dr. Jutta Eming, Freie Universität
Prof. Dr. Olayode, Kehinde Olusola, Faculty of Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, Participation at the conference "Social Movement & Conflict Research in Dialogue: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence, Resistance & Mobilization".
Host: Prof. Dr. Bettina Engels, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin
Peter Ziribagwa Sabakaki, Teddy Tindyebwa Mary Asiimwe, Kigai Erick Evans Bigala, College of natural sciences, Makere University Kampala, Uganda, Training in state of the art molecular methods.
Host: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Sandra Junglen, Institute of Virology, Charité
Dr. Nadja Kutschke, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Evaluation of the implementation of standardized peripheral regional anesthesia procedures under low-resource conditions in a university hospital.
Host: Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
Dr. Steffen Hackbarth, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Humboldt University, Implementation of a versatile 3D scanning unit for automated combined time-resolved de-tection of various characteristic emissions in the Vis-NIR.
Host: Prof. Dr. Maurício S. Baptista, Instituto de Química, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Ikechukwu O. Agbagwa, Institute for Plant Science and Biotechnology, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, Research collaboration meeting: Combining knowledge of plant metabolomics with human health metabolomics for a better ecological-systems-biological approach to metabolomics in the pollution-ridden Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Host: Dr. Jennifer Kirwan, Metabolomics Platform, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Prof. Felicitas Hillmann, Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Technische Universität Berlin, Research visit at the Scalabrini Migration Center.
Host: Dr. Marula Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines
2022:
Noël Thiombiano, Animal Biology and Ecology Laboratory, Joseph KI-ZERBO University, Burkina Faso, Molecular characterization of bat parasite.
Host: Dr. Juliane Schaer, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professor Fernanda Beigel, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo/Mendoza, CONICET, Argentina, Guest Lectures Academic Autonomy and Interculturality in times of Open Science; and Circuits of recognition, scientific production and gender inequalities in two academic elites: Brazil and Argentina.
Hosts: BCGE, BUA Objective 3 Research Quality and Value, and Dr. Fabio H. Santos, Freie Universität
Professor Katia Caraballoso Granado, Center for Energy Studies and Industrial Processes (CEEPI), Universidad de Sancti Spiritus (UNISS), Cuba, Education and initial and continuous professional training throughout the world: a contribution to innovation and transformation in the economy and society.
Host: PD Dr Stefan Wolf, Technische Universität Berlin.
Dr Nicksoni Filbert, Law Faculty, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Criminal Justice and Colonial Legacy.
Host: Professor Florian Jeßberger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professor John-Mark Iyi, Law Faculty and Director, African Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Criminal Justice and Colonial Legacy.
Host: Professor Florian Jeßberger, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr Nupur Chowdhury, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Regulation of emerging technologies (5G networks) and of environmental and health issues in Indian cities.
Host: Professor Ignacio Farías, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professor Dorothy Ebere Adimora, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nigeria, Discrimination and Violence in Higher Education.
Host: Dr. Heike Pantelmann, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr Tamer Söyler, Institut für Afrika- und Asienwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Global Studies Programme (GSP).
Host: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr med. Esto Bahizire, Center for Tropical Diseases and Global Health (CTDGH), Catholic University of Bukavu (UCB), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Transfer of knowledge and technical skills for local artemisinin resistance screeing and characterization.
Host: Professor Frank Mockenhaupt, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Professor Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Researching Nigeria related material of the Janheinz Jahn archive.
Host: Professor Susanne Gehrmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr Marina Fontolan, Institute of Geosciences/Department Science and Technology Policy, University of Campinas, Brazil, ENDURE: Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World.
Host: PD Dr. Mihai Varga, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor Eduardo B. Barros, Department of Physics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil, Artificial materials for phton-photon interaction.
Host: Professor Reich, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor José Antonio Acevedo Suarez, Facultad de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José A. Echeverría (CUJAE), Cuba, Reference Study of Logistics and Supply Chains in Germany.
Host: Dr. Stefan Köhler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr Kwadwo Owusu Akuffo, Optometry and Visual Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, Research collaboration to bridge the Evidence Gap in Ophthalmic Research in Ghana.
Host: Professor Hanna Zimmermann, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Dr Hamdy Abdel-Aziz Ahmed Abdel-Gawwad, Raw Building Materials and Processing Technology Research Institute, Housing and Buidling National Research Center (HBRC), Egypt, The potential application of crushed concrete waste in the production of sustainable unfired building bricks.
Host: Professor Dietmar Stephan, Technische Universität Berlin