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‘I hope I can go back and help rebuild Tigray’

Kisanet Molla is a University of Twente student, a CEO of her own start-up and an activist, who is advocating for the war in her home country to stop. ‘I cannot go back to Ethiopia, it is extremely dangerous for me.’
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'Hopelijk kan ik terug om te helpen bij de wederopbouw van Tigray'

Kisanet Molla is UT-studente, CEO van haar eigen start-up en activiste, die pleit voor het stoppen van de oorlog in haar thuisland Ethiopië. ‘Ik kan niet terug, het is daar levensgevaarlijk voor mij.’
Science

‘Elephants have learnt to avoid humans’

Due to human presence and actions, elephants only use 17% of their potential habitat in Africa. This is the main finding of a study based on twenty years of data and co-authored by Jelle Ferwerda, research coordinator at ITC.
The International

‘I’m the first in my family to get a degree’

In the series The International, UT students from all over the world talk about their lives, studies, choices and passions. In this episode: Alieu S. Bojang, Master’s student of Public Administration from Gambia. ‘It is good to see places where the grass isn’t greener.’
The International

‘It’s all about giving back in life’

In the series The International, UT students from all over the world talk about their lives, studies, choices and passions. In this episode: Blondina Leopolda Massunda (21), Bachelor’s student of Communication Science from Germany. ‘You need to go away to truly understand where you come from.’
News

‘Giving a helping hand’

Technical Medicine student Merel van der Stelt (25) is helping to provide prosthetics to amputees in Sierra Leone. During her internship in the African country, she used a 3D printer to create prosthetics for local patients. Now she is a part of a team aiming to set up a 3D-Lab there.
Science

Cape Town is running out of water

Cape Town is experiencing a severe water shortage. Despite strict water rations, the city is preparing for ‘Day Zero’, the day when the authorities turn off water for most of the city’s households. How did it come to this? We asked Arjen Hoekstra, Professor in Water Management at the University of Twente.
Science

Africa is splitting up

‘In the right place, at the right time’ almost never applies to earthquakes. Nevertheless, ITC professor Mark van der Meijde uses this expression when he talks about an earthquake that happened earlier this year in Botswana. It confirmed exactly what his colleagues and he suspected: the African soil is completely unlike what scientists have always believed it to be – which can have major consequences for the continent.
Campus Life

African ThinkUp: Students’ vision for ‘a better Africa’

African students from the UT came together yesterday for an ‘African ThinkUp’, an event focused on discussing and helping to solve challenges that African countries are dealing with nowadays. This meeting might have only been the first of many, as its organizers hope to establish an African student association.
Campus Life

Fundraising rally to help people in South Sudan

Two UT Honours students, Sarah Wiegard and Sven Kruthoff, are hosting a fundraising rally on the 15th and 22nd of June to combat the effects of hunger and drought in South Sudan. Partnering with the Welthungerhilfe charity organization, the duo is hoping to induce change in people’s donating behaviour as a part of their Honours graduation project.
News

its4land: Mapping land rights in Africa

In the Netherlands and other developed countries, all land rights are documented and recorded in a land registry. Each property has a verifiable owner and a mapped boundary. There are, however, about 150 countries, which can´t maintain such a tenure recording system and that leads to many disputes, land grabbing, slum formation, and other issues. Aiming to resolve this, ITC faculty of the University of Twente is leading an international project titled its4land, focused on mapping land rights in East Africa.
PhD

Mapping the reality of slums

Born in the USA, studies in the Netherlands, work in Bolivia, Master’s degree in Spain and Sweden... and now a PhD position at ITC. That is Caroline Gevaert’s life in a nutshell. The research of this cosmopolitan PhD candidate is focused on mapping informal settlements with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ‘I can’t believe it’s my job,' she says about flying drones in Africa.
PhD

Xavier Ikejemba: ‘I started with nothing’

Within five years, Xavier Ikejemba wants to give electricity access to 100.000 African households through his own company. Within three to four years, he wants to finish his dissertation on enhancing sustainable development of Africa. Eventually, he even wants to be the president of his home country Nigeria. ‘There’s no time to waste.’
News

'High fever? Call the healthcare centre'

There is no specific protocol regarding the Ebola outbreakfor students who come from Africa and will soon start their study program at the ITC faculty. However, the ITC Student Affairs department keeps in close contact with the Community Health Service (GGD) and the Veldpoort healthcare centre in Enschede.

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