Welcome to the fourth episode of the Africast podcast!

In today's episode, Johannes Winklmaier, founder and CEO of TU eMpower Africa, talks about creating decentralized, renewable energy systems in rural regions.

TU eMpower Africa e.V is a non-profit organization, which unites students, researchers, alumni and friends of the Technical University of Munich: https://tu-empower-africa.org/

What is the Africast podcast?

Africast started as a group project within the scholarship program of the TUM: Junge Akademie. The three students behind this project are Jaimee Lau, Marius Merkle and Patrick Sowinski, all of them students at the Technical University of Munich with different study backgrounds. Currently, a total of seven podcast episodes is planned to be released in 2019. The guests will range from students and academic workers to researchers and professionals from Ghana. Our goal is to raise awareness for academic projects in Ghana and to help people from Germany and Europe to learn more about them. The project was inspired by the TUM Africa Initiative, which aims to strengthen the collaboration between the TUM and different universities in Africa.

In the next episode, Dr. Samuel Dodoo will talk about infrastructure and mobility in Ghana!

Links:

TUM: Junge Akademie - https://www.ja.tum.de/en/home/

Info about Africa Initiative: https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/35122/

UCC: https://ucc.edu.gh/

KNUST: https://www.knust.edu.gh/

Intro music:

Rollin at 5 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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