Events - Foundation Office Palestinian Territories
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Event
Falling Walls Lab Palestine
Falling Walls Lab Palestine was held for the third time this year and for the first time also in Gaza. On Sunday 16 June, the DAAD organised the event in Gaza together with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Our head of office Marc Frings was the Falling Walls Lab on Saturday 15 June 2019 at the Birzeit University in the West Bank. The Falling Walls Lab in the West Bank was a collaboration between the DAAD and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit. The Falling Walls Lab is a platform for academics, aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals from all disciplines to present their research, innovative projects, social initiative and business models. Each participant has three minutes to present his work to the jury and other participants. Falling Walls Labs are being run around the world and the winner will travel this fall to Berlin to attend the Falling Walls Lab Final and attend the international Falling Walls Conference.
Expert talk
BUILDx: Eat the Palestinian Way
What do we mean when saying eat the Palestinian way?
Study and Information Program
A delegation from the CDU Fraktion Schleswig-Holstein visits East-Jerusalem and the West Bank
This week we welcomed a delegation from the CDU Fraktion Schleswig-Holstein, including the state parliament president Klaus Schlie and Tobias Koch, speaker of the parliamentary group of the CDU in Schleswig-Holstein's state parliament. The program, which took place in East Jerusalem and Ramallah, included several briefings by many representatives of german institutions including our Country director Marc Frings and further discussions with Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, Nada Majdalani from EcoPeace Middle East, Issa Amro from Youth Against Settlements شباب ضد الاستيطان and Oliver Bridge from UNRWA.
Study and Information Program
A delegation of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education - bpb - is hosted by the KAS
On 14 May 2019 we spent the full day with a delegation of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). The program started with a briefing by our country director Marc Frings on the political and social situation in Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. We then went on a tour with Moien Odeh through Kufr Aqab, a Palestinian neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. We could learn more about the complex and special realities of Palestinians in the city. In Ramallah, we met our long-standing partner Dr. Khalil Shikaki, founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research - PSR. The group discussed with him the social and political trends of recent years. The US-Palestinian entrepreneur Sam Bahour talked in an afternoon session about the very sensitive current situation in the region and brought the participants closer to daily life realities in the West Bank. We finished the day with a traditional Iftar together with Zack Sabella, Aseel Baidoun and Inès Abdel Razek in order to learn more about perspectives and hopes of young Palestinians.
Workshop
Land Registration: Objectives, Progress and Obstacles
IoL Legal Encounters
The Institute of Law at Birzeit University holds a legal encounter on land registration in Palestine with Mousa Shakarneh, a judge and chairman of the Land and Water Settlement Committee. The event, supported by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, features a discussion of issues related to the goals, accomplishments, and challenges to land registration in the West Bank.
Workshop
BUILDx: Human-centered design as a key in digital transformation
Join us this upcoming Wednesday to meet human-centered design expert, Johannes Landstorfer. We’re having a one on one discussion with him at our partner Build Palestine's next #BUILDx event titled: Human-centered design as a key in digital transformation. This event is of benefit to entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs looking for human-centered tools to apply in their organizations.
Discussion
The international and regional dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
On April 18 2019, we discussed the international and regional dimensions, with a focus on EU-policies, of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict together with Dimitris Bouris and Daniela Huber during a roundtable event at our office in Ramallah.
Expert conference
The International System with Trump: To Where?
Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies at Birzeit University and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung country office Palestine invite you to attend the international conference: "The International System with Trump: to Where?" National and international experts and scholars give their perspectives on the topic.
Expert talk
BUILDx Bethlehem
Social Entrepreneurship Series 2019
For the first time ever in Bethlehem, BUILDx presents 3 local social entrepreneurs creating social impact in and around the city. We’re hosting Nadim Alayaseh from Shorooq Organization, Ala’ Helou from Resign for Recycling Design, and Fatima Albreijia from Al-Zahwahra Women's Association.
Workshop
Corporate Social Responsibility in Palestine
IoL Legal Encounters
The Institute of Law at Birzeit University, in partnership with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, organizes a legal encounter in Gaza discussing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the private sector in Palestine.
