The grant was approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. The opening conference of the research program took pake place at Southeast University, Nanjing, China on 2nd December 2017.

EiABC Research Participants: Dr. Fisseha Wegayehu, Dr. Hayal Desta and Dr. Nebiyu Yonas

An inauguration workshop will take place at EiABC on Saturday, December 16. 2017

Matthias Rudolph, Dean of the Department of Architecture ABK Stuttgart and Joachim Dieter , EiABC Scientific Director 

On October 30th, a delegation of 3 people from the Stuttgart Academy of Sciences visited EiABC. The Delegation comprising Prof. Fabienne Hoelzel, Chair of Urban Design, Matthias Rudolph, Dean of the Department of Architecture and Predrag Markovic, Head of Finance, conducted various meetings in their 3 day mission. The trip was funded by the DAAD as a “Fact Finding Mission” to set up a long-term collaboration between the EiABC and the ABK in the area of Urban Design, some of the goals being to establish a joint Urban Design Master between EiABC and ABK and to do a collaborative research on the topic of rural-urban transformation.

The ABK delegation had meetings with the EiABC’s Scientific Directors, members of the Chair of Urban Design, Chair Holder of the chair of Urban and Regional Planning, and members of the research team at the Emerging City Lab - Addis Ababa (ECL-AA). Upon the finalization of the  collaboration agreements with specific EiABC chairs and Research Units, ABK plans to bring a group of MSc.students working on the planned Urban Design Studio to EiABC and vice versa. In collaboration with the ECL, ABK will work two to three new towns in Ethiopia as well as conduct an excursion with their (ABK) students to Ethiopia in September or October 2018.

The Fact-Finding Mission was concluded with an MoU signing to establish a cooperation with EiABC. The collaborators from both institutes will continue discussions on the content and scope of the planned Urban Design Studio and research projects and also look for grants for future mobility programs and research projects.

Inauguration Date: November 25 2017

Shower Unit : 1st prototype IN3 - planning reaserch for the transformation of rural kebeles into towns

Keynote speaker: Tesfaye, Zegeye Cherenet, Wubshet - reperesentative from Flinstone Homes PLC, Local administrators and Community Elders

Participants of the project - Masters students from EiABC and Bauhaus University spent 3 weeks in the village (rural town) to build the shower building.

Clementine, Nokwanda and Brody

This year EiABC is facilitating the mobility of 7 international students from AFIMEGQ and University exchange co-operations. The students are taking their courses at AAU and EiABC respectively both masters and undergraduate programmes.

EiABC
Undergraduate Semester exchange - Architecture :  Clementine Gerald and Brody Boudailler from Ensa Nates University.
Masters semester exchange - Urban Design: Luna Catteeuw from Belgium
Masters Semester Exchange - Architectural Engineering - Nokwanda Masina from Swaziland

AAU
Masters in Environmental Sciences  -  Danial Aja and  Henry Ota  from Nigeria and  Mohamedi Njaku from Tanzania

We hope through the continued partnerships with international partners we can increase the number of student exchanges to and from EiABC. The aim is  to diversify the knowledge base and establish EiABC  as the leading national and International Institute in the built environment.