Our ACCESS project of SEPT Competence Center gets approval for second funding phase

A few months ago, the ACCESS project was given the great opportunity by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to apply for a second funding phase as one of seven successful exceed networks. During the ACCESS Research Conference and Summer School in Hammamet (Tunisia) at the beginning of October 2024, the time had finally come. ACCESS Director Prof. Dr. Utz Dornberger was able to announce the exciting news that the application for the second project phase of ACCESS had been approved by the DAAD.

This second phase will now follow on seamlessly in the years 2025 – 2029 and contains a financial scope of almost five million euros. For the future work of ACCESS, new target groups and research directions will be taken into account. Among other things, the target group of students is to become more central to the activities, whereas in the first project phase the focus was on lecturers. The topic of sustainability will also be given special consideration in the network’s activities.

With the “ACCESS 2.0” project, the entire team is pursuing the goal of further developing the network, which has grown over the past four and a half years, taking current social developments into account and leading it successfully into the future together.

 

The African Centre for Career Enhancement & Skills Support, or ACCESS, is an initiative of the University of Leipzig. We research about Africa’s increasing education at the same time as the stagnation of opportunities in the labor market and develop new teaching methods to strengthen the employability of African students. To do this, we work together with companies, universities and students. In this way, we increase the opportunities of African students in the global labor market and connect them with companies that can benefit from their expertise.

Learn more about our ACCESS project