News about the project

24/06/2025

GIRT-Staff Exchange with partner universities from Ethiopia and Mozambique in Krems

From June 10 to 18, 2025, the project partners of the “GIRT” project were guests in Krems.

10/06/2025

Validation Workshop at Lúrio University

The Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning of the Lúrio University (Mozambique), as part of the project GIRT, held a validation workshop on May 29, 2025.

04/06/2025

Validation Workshop in Addis Ababa

A part of the GIRT-project a validation workshop reflected women's concerns raised during the fieldwork.

03/06/2025

Validation Workshop at Bahir Dar University

Bahir Dar University, one of the partner institutions in the project GIRT, held a validation workshop on June 01, 2025 at the university campus. The workshop was held with 30 interview partners from informal settlements who were participating in the previous qualitative research phase.

27/05/2025

Validation Workshop at University of Mekelle

The GIRT project successfully convened a vital validation workshop on May 23, 2025 at University of Mekelle.

05/05/2025

Conference contribution on urban transition in Ethiopia

Transgress Conference in Graz with presentation by GIRT-project team in April 2025

08/04/2024

Transdisciplinary research in African contexts

University for Continuing Education Krems coordinated project meeting in Ethiopia
From March 18 to 22, 2024, the annual partner meeting of the GIRT project took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

30/03/2023

GIRT Staff Exchange in Krems

Research coordinators of four universities in Ethiopia and Mozambique met in Krems in March to discuss about informal settlements.