he TUM SEED Center is an Excellence Centre for Exchange and Development, funded by DAAD and
the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2020 to 2029. The TUM
SEED Center conducts research and offers higher education at the intersection of Sustainable
Energies, Entrepreneurship and Development (SEED) in the Global South. The TUM SEED Center
consists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and ten leading technical universities across the
Global South, including Bahir Dar University (Ethiopia), Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia),
Burkina Institute of Technology (Burkina Faso), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(Ghana), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and
Technology (Kenya), Makerere University (Uganda), Namibia University of Science and Technology
(Namibia), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru), and Stellenbosch University (South Africa).
Through its international and interdisciplinary doctoral program, the TUM SEED Center fosters
academic exchange and facilitates excellent research.
This announcement invites master’s students from the Global South with excellent academic track
records and strong motivation to apply for the doctoral scholarship in “WEFE Nexus and Biogas
Generation” as part of the research of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus
research group. The doctoral scholarship will focus on waste-to-energy concepts for biogas generation
in urban areas, contributing to SDG 7, Clean and Affordable Energy for All by 2030. The selected and
awarded doctoral scholars will be supervised by Dr. Daphne Gondhalekar at the Chair of Urban Water
Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (https://www.cee.ed.tum.de/en/sww)
