Christmas greetings / Mwiriwe from Kigali – 2 months in Rwanda

Christmas greetings / Mwiriwe from Kigali – 2 months in Rwanda

“This is a common greeting in Kinyarwanda and means something like “Good afternoon, how are you doing?” It’s almost two months since I have been living in Rwanda now and I have recently started to feel that I have “arrived“. The past weeks have been incredibly stressful and quite hectic – but at the same time, I was fulfilling tasks and executing things I have been wanting to do in my profession for a long time…”

First steps of StArfrica in Rwanda – Katharina is on site now and reports her first impressions!

First steps of StArfrica in Rwanda – Katharina is on site now and reports her first impressions!

That moment when you get off the airplane and you breathe in the Rwandan air – always a bit humid, never too cold and somehow a bit smoky – the feeling of home returns almost immediately – Rwanda, here I come!

It has already been two weeks since I arrived and a lot has been going on for me in my new role as the Project lead of StArfrica in Rwanda since…

Team: Dr. Inka Engel

Team: Dr. Inka Engel

I hope that in four years we will have achieved the indicators we have set. But I really do see it as a pilot project and would therefore like to see it extended to other African countries and that it somehow manages to create a cluster in Rwanda, on the one hand with this bridge character and the connection to Germany, on the other hand with the local economy…

Team: Dr. Kornelia van der Beek

Team: Dr. Kornelia van der Beek

I was involved from the beginning when we at ZIFET decided to develop activities in Rwanda. We chose Africa, an exciting and promising continent with great potential. There were already contacts to Rwanda through previous activities together with the Rwanda Center, so the choice of Rwanda as a partner country in the application was obvious. Establishing “Business Start-Up from Science” at the University of Rwanda is a very exciting and challenging project for me, which I am happy to accompany with my experience…