On the UN International Bee Day 2021, a team of Danida alumni organized Ghana’s first Honey Festival and knowledge sharing forum in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIR-FORIG). Despite the global honey market doing well, pollinators remain on the decline whilst honey adulteration practices are growing - a trend that can have grave consequences.

Sharing knowledge is essential for finding sustainable solutions to the challenges facing us today. Sharing knowledge and transforming knowledge into action, however, does not happen by itself. It requires a concerted effort. In Danida Fellowship Centre’s 2021-25 strategy we focus on how the skills and capacities we support can be transformed into action

Do you wonder what it takes to assemble participants online and organise a successful hackathon? Based on the first-hand experience of the organisers of the two day virtual UNLEASH Hacks Bangladesh 2020, this webinar on 16 December will give you an insight into what is involved.

Join our course in Design Thinking and Innovation and learn how to apply human-centred innovation techniques to address challenges in your organisation and in your community. You will receive a certificate upon completion of the course

On 27 November Peter Okwoko, Danida Alum and MSc from Aalborg University receives the Danida Alumni Prize 2020 for his quick, highly innovative and sustainable response to the Covid-19 crisis. Together with his business partner, Paige Balcom, he started to make face shields from plastic waste.

Earlier this month about 700 alumni participated in our alumni information survey. Our thanks to all those who took part for giving us your time and much appreciated input. We would like to share some of the key findings with you.

We believe that it is unrealistic to run another call for activity grants in 2020. Instead we encourage local networks and alumni to send applications on an ongoing basis should it be possible for you to carry out alumni activities in your local areas or online until we find it possible to send out an official call in 2021.

Danida Fellowship Centre invites Danida alumni change makers to facilitate online webinars for fellow alumni and their Danish partners. The purpose is to share knowledge about different ways of tackling the SDGs and thereby inspire one another.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the planned DAN workshop in Copenhagen for representatives from all of the 12 established local alumni networks had to be postponed.  As an alternative, we invited the representatives to a series of online meetings to cover some of the original workshop topics and share experiences from the global pandemic.