Expert for Cooperation and Third Party Funding for Sub-Saharan Africa
Goethe Institut
Philina Wittke has been working in development cooperation contexts for more than ten years. Between 2013-2017, she was the director of the DAAD Information Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, for Southern Africa. In that capacity, she promoted international student and research exchange as well as funding opportunities for students to study in South Africa, Africa and Germany. During her time in the DAAD Headquarter in Bonn, Germany, she wrote the African-German network for research, innovation and transfer for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF). She also founded a working group for partnerships on eye-level with the Global South, especially with Africa and was actively involved in the so-called development forum, a platform to discuss and challenge current concepts of “development”. Currently, she is the expert for cooperation and third-party funding for the 15 Goethe-Instituts in Sub-Saharan Africa where she advises on EU-funding opportunities as well as local and regional sponsorships.
Redefining Global Higher Education Collaborations: Deconstructing Development and Promoting Equity
Thursday, May 29, 2025
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM PST