More than 300 higher education leaders and experts as well as representatives from politics, science and industry joined the international conference “Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Challenge for Global Higher Education”, held from 3rd to 4th November in Berlin. The conference stressed the important role of the higher education sector within the MDG process: One of the outcomes of the conference was that the organizers DAAD, HRK and GTZ agreed to increase their support of higher education institutions in the field of development cooperation.

Conference presentations Conference programme (*.pdf) Welcoming and opening addresses: Dr. Christiane Ebel-Gabriel/HRK (still to come) Prof. Dr. Theodor Berchem/DAAD (*.pdf) Dr. Bernd Eisenblätter/GTZ (*.pdf) Erich Stather/BMZ (*.pdf) Session I: How can Higher Education contribute effectively to achieving the Millennium Development Goals? Dr Maureen Lewis, Center for Global Development, Washington DC, USA (*.pdf) Session II: From Aid to Global Sharing of Knowledge: Research Excellence and Commitment to Development William Saint, World Bank, USA (*.pdf) Prof. Dr. Bungaran Saragih, Indonesien (*.pdf) Best Practices: Workshop 1 (Health) - Health at the core of MDGs: The role of a German university (*.pdf) - Collaboration in Public health between the universities of Heidelberg and Dar es Salaam (*.pdf) - Training of multi-sectoral AIDS committees in Tanzania (*.pdf) Workshop 2 (Environment) - Ergebnisse (*.pdf) Workshop 3 (Capacity Building in Education) - National Pedagogical University Honduras (*.pdf) - Ahfad-Humboldt-Link Programme (*.pdf) Workshop 4 (Global Partnership) - Ergebnisse (*.pdf)