Second Funding Phase for the GIGA's Work on Health and Climate Resilience

The Global Centres initiative, launched in 2021 by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Foreign Office (AA), supports long-term collaboration between institutions based in Germany and the Global South. It seeks to promote joint research, teaching, and capacity-building to address pressing global challenges. 

As part of the GLACIER network (German–Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research and Training), the GIGA leads a study on health provision for vulnerable migrant groups in three Latin American countries – a problem recently exacerbated by the withdrawal of USAID and the reduction of funding to the World Health Organization and other international bodies. At the GIGA, Prof. Dr. Bert Hoffmann coordinates the GLACIER project. The successful cooperation enjoyed with the University of Costa Rica and other regional partners to date will continue. 

The SAGE network (Sustainable Adaptation to Global Change in the Middle East) brings together researchers from Germany and the Middle East to explore climate governance, sustainable resource management, and environmental ethics. The GIGA contributes by working on issues of governance, conflict, and cooperation regarding natural resources alongside investigating the political economy of climate adaptation. At the GIGA, Dr. Christiane Fröhlich is coordinator of the SAGE project. 

The second phase of the Global Centres initiative will see the continuation and expansion of its vital  work through 2030, including by means of ongoing capacity-building, interdisciplinary research, and policy-relevant scholarship.