2024 – 2026 Germany
Climate Protection & Coproductive urban development at municipality Homberg (Efze)
Co-productive urban development with activation of vacant commercial space
Acquiring and managing funding programmes for a sustainable urban development
Project lead: European week in Homberg, Aller.Land (concept phase), Fachwerk Triennale 2025 Homberg, “Small town in transition” within the framework of the national urban development policy funding programme NSP (BBSR), stakeholder and funding management
2023 – 2024 Pakistan
Industry Skills Identification TVET Pakistan
Sector analysis in the textile industry:
Development of Green job profiles and curricula for PK textile industry
Implementation of sustainable and Green skills and knowledge for export to the international market (certification)
2020 – 2023 Serbia
Business Scout for Development giz – AHK Serbia (Belgrade)
Head of Department, Vocational Education & Sustainability:
Development and promoting of Green job profiles, circular economy
Project development, qualification in Carbon management & Green skills , establishment of Green H2 Business Desk at AHK Serbia in cooperation with AHK Ukraine, support Private Sector Development (developPPP) for PV installation on international industrial plants, supporting AHK Ukraine in finalising development projects by GIZ (after the war started), study of environmental and climate impact of jeans industry in Southern Serbia (https://www.climate-expert.org/en/home)
2019 – 2020 Germany
Project Development & Management Fair Fashion Lab – Fair Fashion Lab Initiative with Eine Welt e.V. Leipzig
Winner of idea award “Modekultur, Textilien und Nachhaltigkeit”, 11.2019, initiated by Rat für nachhaltige Entwicklung, Germany – fairfashionlab.de
2018 – 2019 Rwanda
Implementation of Dual Vocational Education in Rwanda in cooperation with giz (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit).
Support of the pilot phase of dual education as international expert in various trades, development of the process of implementation of digitisation in education as one of the development goals of the Rwandan government by emphasising digitised business and education development solutions.
Revision and Development of Occupational Standards for sustainable Light Industry (wood, hospitality, logistics)
in cooperation with RTB Rwanda TVET Board.
2016 – 2018 Ethiopia
1 Implementation of Strategic Alliance within Textile and Education Sector
Support of the Ethiopian government in the process of building and developing various Industry Parks
Support of the Industry Park (HIP) for apparel production located in Hawassa as host for international garment manufacturers like PVH Corp.
The project established a training and qualification option for supervision and middle management positions in cooperation with the investors’ association.
Photos: Industrial Park, Hawassa
2 Revision of Occupational Standards for Garment & Fashion Industry in Ethiopia
In Cooperation with the Federal TVET Agency FTA, Ethiopian Textile Industry Development Institute ETIDI and Ethiopian Textile and Garment Manufacturers’ Association ETGAMA
The project focus: To strengthen the vocational education sector in Ethiopia by:
– Providing best practice tools and guidelines
– Capacity building of national VET stakeholders by providing tools and by bridging the gap between the required competences of the private sector and the provided competences by the VET sector to increase the employment rate of young Ethiopians including an improved perspective of income-generating employment.
3 African Sourcing and Fashion Week ASFW 2017, Addis Ababa
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Managing the overall design of the pavilion “Sustainable Textiles” in corporation with eTex (GIZ) and Textilbündnis (Germany)
African Sourcing & Fashion Week 2017
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Photos: S. Wulfinghoff a,b / Christiane Voith c / Ⓒ2023
2006 – 2016 South Africa
Managing director Rorke`s Drift Art & Craft Centre
Overall responsibility for human resources, finance, marketing, facilities, vocational education (NQF) and development
A significant and influencial institution of Black artists, talents, learners and lecturers with huge capacities of creativity, productivity and a community commitement to the art centre in KwaZulu Natal, a region marked by poverty, unemployment, high HIV rates, poor infrastructure, violence and the destructive history of the region.
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