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From May 29 to June 1, 2025, the Forum Africa Centre was once again be represented with the university tent at Europe's largest and oldest festival for African music and culture. The University Tent of the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg has been an integral part of the Africa Festival for more than 15 years.

Welche kolonialen Spuren finden sich in Würzburg – und warum sind sie heute noch relevant? Die Ausstellung „Würzburg und Kolonialismus: Gestern? Heute!“ wird am 30. Juni 2025 im Würzburger Rathaus eröffnet und ist anschließend bis 29. Juli zu sehen.

Am Earth Observation Research Cluster der JMU sprechen am Montag, den 14.7.2025, Prof. Dr. Eberhard Rothfuß und Dr. Axel Prestes Dürrnagel zu „Revealing a “Life-World"-Perspective for the Global Urban South: Methodologische und empirische Überlegungen an der ländlich-urbanen Schnittstelle von Maputo (Mosambik)".

Am 10. und 11. Dezember 2024 nahmen Mitglieder des Forum Afrikazentrum (FAZ) an der Cooperation Lounge Africa-Europe: Science meets Politics in Brüssel teil.

With the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's future largest radio telescope is currently under construction. More precisely, it involves two networks of many antennas and individual telescopes: one is located in Australia, the other is being built in South Africa and should be fully operational in the early 2030s. The Chair of Astronomy at JMU is involved in preparatory projects such as the MeerKAT array together with African and global partner groups.

In 2024, the Forum Africa Centre was once again represented at Europe's largest and oldest festival for African music and culture. The Forum Africa Centre presented a selection of the many Africa-related projects of Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in the university tent, which has been an integral part of the Africa Festival for 15 years.

The German-language “Handbook Democratic Republic of the Congo” offers a total of 36 articles that shed light on all facets of the country. Many of the articles were written by academics from the Africa Center Forum and Congolese alumni of the University of Würzburg. The handbook is now available as a hardcover and as an e-book – and is freely accesible from the University of Würzburg's network.

Claudia Roth, Staatsministerin für Kultur und Medien, besuchte am zweiten Tag des Africa Festivals 2024 das Uni-Zelt. Dort diskutierte sie mit mehr als 20 Studierenden über die Aufarbeitung des Kolonialismus.

Im neuen Masterstudiengang „Epidemiology and Biostatistics“ haben die bilateralen Veranstaltungen zwischen der Uni Würzburg und der Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Mwanza begonnen.

For years, the University of Würzburg has been a centre for intensive, internationally acclaimed research on Africa and with African partners. One example of this is the research and innovation project UPSCALE.