As part of the collaboration on higher education and research between EiABC and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, the third annual PhD and Master workshop on Urban Resilience took place on EiABC’s campus.
 
This year, EiABC students from Urban and Regional Planning (PhD), Environmental Planning (MSc.) and Landscape Architecture (MSc.) enrolled in the workshop to learn about urban resilience theory as well as good scientific practice and how to exercise it. Key element of the workshop was a two-day field study focusing on the drivers of urban resilience and how to detect them in the organically grown neighbourhoods of Addis Ababa. Subsequently, findings from the field study were analyzed and presented to interested EiABC faculty and students.
 
The practice and research based learning format is intended to continue under the framework of the Emerging City Lab Addis Ababa in collaboration with the EiABC Office of Graduate Studies.

Campus of TU Delft, The Netherlands

EiABC is now offering more opportunities for students to engage in mobility programs. Recently the institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Delft University of Technology.

Delft University of Technology, also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technological university, located in Delft, The Netherlands. With eight faculties and numerous research institutes, it hosts over 19,000 students (undergraduate and postgraduate), more than 3,300 scientists, and more than 2,200 support and management staff.

The exchange student program is established in order to provide participating students with an opportunity to internationalize their curriculum. There will be two places for Master students from both universities each semester.

Read more about TU Delft: http://www.tudelft.nl/en/

The Winning Student Team from EiABC: Akrem Abdurahim, Emaelaf Tebikew, and Henok Yared

“Hostels for Hope” is an international design competition organized by Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon®, a global partnership fighting women’s cancers. Akrem Ezedin, Henok Yared, and Emaelaf Tebikew from EiABC, who put forward their design for “home-away-from-home” for women with cancer in Tanzania won the first prize in the student category. This is the second time EiABC students won a first prize in an international design competition. Already in 2014 Aknaw Yohannes and Dagmawi Tilahun won the first price for their "Market in urban area in Africa” design for ARCHIGINEER AFRICA.

Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon®, along with the American Cancer Society, the George W. Bush Institute, HKS, Inc., Southern Methodist University (SMU), and T-MARC Tanzania, organized “Hostels for Hope”, an international architecture and design competition to find new ways of constructing “home-away-from-home” communities for women undergoing cancer treatment in Tanzania. With only two centers in the whole country to treat them, women must either travel great distances and pay for lodging or, as many do, simply stay home and wait to die. The competition inspired both student and professional architects to use their ingenuity and creativity to design affordable, sustainable lodgings near the two health centers in Tanzania.

A team of students from EiABC created the winning design for a hostel at a second cancer hospital, Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in Mwanza, the nation’s second-largest city, on the shores of Lake Victoria. The students are Akrem Abdurahim, Emaelaf Tebikew, and Henok  Yared.

The hostels that will be constructed based on the winning designs will house women who must travel long distances for cancer treatment at these two hospitals. “From 96 impressive competition entries, our jury selected six winning designs: three each from the student and professional categories,” said Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Chief Executive Officer Celin Schocken. “We are thrilled to congratulate our winners, and to begin the process of turning their visions into reality to benefit women who need life-saving cancer treatment.”

Read more about the competition: http://pinkribbonredribbon.org/competition/ 

Read more about the winners:http://pinkribbonredribbon.org/competition/winners/

Experts at the Water Resilient Green Cities in Africa (WGA) Discussion

The Water Resilient Green Cities in Africa (WGA) is an international research project being conducted by EiABC, the Institute of Human Settlement Studies of Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam and Copenhagen University of Denmark.

One of the expected outcomes of the WGA project is to come up with a catchment based stormwater management for Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam. Accordingly, the WGA team of EiABC developed a "Landscape based stormwater management strategy for Jemo River catchment". In order to present the draft strategy to city level and local level stakeholders of Addis Ababa and get comments and input, the WGA team of EiABC conducted a stakeholder workshop on February 17th, 2017, at Ghion hotel.

40 experts from various offices of Addis Ababa city administration, Nefas Silak Lafto and Kolfe Keranyo sub-cities and some woredas of the two sub-cities took part at the workshop. Dr. Ephrem G/Mariam, Deputy Scientific Director of EiABC, made a welcome speech and Ato Yonas Ayalew, Head of the Addis Ababa Construction Bureau, officially opened the workshop.

Dr. Kumelachew Yeshitela, coordinator of the WGA project, presented the research undertakings of the WGA team and the methodology followed for developing the strategy development. Ato Abraham Workneh, city researcher at WGA, presented the proposed landscape based stormwater management (LSM) bio-physical elements. Ato Liku Workalemahu, a PhD candidate, and Dr. Ketema Abebe, city researcher, presented the implementation mechanisms of the proposed LSM elements.

The workshop participants were then divided in two groups for discussion and came up with suggestions and inputs for finalizing the strategy document.