Community Talk February - Exploring PhD initiatives: Ethiopia’s Superstars Project and South Africa’s Presidential Programme

The Ethiopian Superstars project is a VLIRUOS international training programme designed to strengthen the PhD supervision across universities in Ethiopia.

The programme was developed over three consecutive stages:

• In the first stage, an existing PhD supervision training at Ghent University was piloted with the project members.

• In the second stage, a train-of-trainer programme was developed to support 14 Ethiopian Superstars and to further adjust training material to theEthiopian context.

• In the final stage, these 14 trainers are delivering training to PhD supervisors across 7 universities in Ethiopia.

In this Community Talk, an update on the programme will be provided, followed by a reflection on the key challenges and opportunities it presents. 

Additionally, the South African Presidential PhD Programme will be presented, exploring possible links, overlaps, and differences between the two initiatives.

Speakers

• Teklu Gemechu (Jimma University)
• Melisew Dejene Lemma (Hawassa University)
• Achamyelesh (Hawassa University)
• A representative of the Embassy of the Republic South Africa