DAAD grants three new projects for Ta’ziz Short-Term Measures with Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen to ivESK

The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD) has awarded funds provided by the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt – AA) to support the programme line ‘Ta’ziz Short-Term Measures’ under the ‘Ta’ziz Partnership’ programme.

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The Arabic word ‘Ta’ziz’ means ‘strengthening /consolidation’. The Ta'ziz programme is intended to support political processes aimed at more democracy and rule of law in the MENA region (Middle East & North Africa), where higher education and academic cooperation play an important role in times of social and political transformation.

Three ‘Ta'ziz Short-Term Measures’ have been selected from DAAD for further funding at Institute of Reliable Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics (ivESK) of Offenburg University.

  1. The ERTISSS project together with Al-Nahrain University in Baghdad (Iraq) continues a three-year old excellent collaboration on ‘Expanded Research, Development & Teaching on Internet of Things for Sustainable, Secure, and Safe Communities’. Joint (sandwich-type) supervision of Ph.D. students, joint research and publication activities, and mutual visits shall be the fundament for a German-Iraqi Center of Applied Research at Al-Nahrain University.
  2. The E-ARTORRR project in its second year of collaboration goes into a similar direction and works on ‘Extended Applied Research, Development & Teaching for Relevant Research on Secure Distributed IoT Technologies and Embedded Systems’. Four Ph.D. students and four professors from Sana'a University in Yemen generate scientific output and tangible results on Blockchain, 5G, and drone networks.
  3. The third project will play a special role. Mycetoma is a badly neglected tropical disease endemic in tropical and subtropical regions, and Sudan is the most affected country worldwide. It is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory disease of bacterial or fungal origin. The Mycetoma Research Centre (MRC) was established in 1991 under the umbrella of the University of Khartoum (Sudan). It is the global world leader and an authoritative advisor in mycetoma management and research. It is the only WHO Collaborating Centre on Mycetoma. It focuses on the medical and societal aspects of the disease through high-quality medical care, research, education and disease prevention. Over the decades, it has collected data from around 12,000 Mycetoma patients, which – as of today – are not investigated in detail. In the Dama project (Data Analytics for Mycetoma Research Center), together with MRC, the Kahartoum based Comboni College of Science and Technology (CCST) and the ivESK researchers from Offenburg University will make the first steps in database management and data pre-processing to prepare the floor for subsequent analyses and projects.
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