Research Grant 2023 from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Dr Umer Khayyam (Associate Prof at S3H) and Mr Safi Ullah (Assistant Professor at SADA) were awarded the Research Grant 2023 (after the first grant in 2022) from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under the title: Planning in Germany and Pakistan: Responding Challenges of Climate Change through Intercultural Dialogue. This capacity-building grant project aims at the exchange of ideas and inculcating research skills pertinent to climate change. It covers workshops, conferences, field exposure visits, training and publication opportunities for students and faculty from Pakistan and Germany. It further aims to curricula development and refine the course contents in the domain of climate change, based on mutual experience from Germany and Pakistan.

Congratulations to Dr Umer Khayyam and Mr Safi-Ullah on this remarkable achievement!
NUST-S3H Department of Development Studies, and NUST-SADA Department of Architecture are executing this project with a team of professors from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and two other Pakistani partner universities (UET, Lahore and LCWU, Lahore).

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