UNAM hosts Engagement Workshop on Tourism Destination Risk and Resilience

The University of Namibia (UNAM) in partnership with Futouris, a sustainability initiative of the German travel industry, DKKV, the German Committee for Disaster Reduction and GIZ hosted a stakeholder engagement workshop earlier... Read more »

UNAM trains public and private stakeholders to carry out economic valuation on marine resources

The University of Namibia recently organised a crucial training on economic evaluation to enable different Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) stakeholders to properly assess the local marine resources’ worth and their... Read more »

School of Education broadens its horizon on internationalization and digitalization in education

In a quest to explore internationalization and digitalization in education, the School of Education took to the University of Education Weingarten in Germany for capacity building and research on novel education practices.... Read more »

Becoming a Tourism Entrepreneur after graduation and loving it

Lubowski Kadila is the Founder & CEO of Anchor Adventures, a Namibian Tour Operator that focuses on a different way in which travellers experience Namibia. He studied Public Relations and Tourism Management... Read more »

UNAM Research partners with University of Stellenbosch

The University of Namibia through its Centre for Research Services (CRS) and the University of Stellenbosch (SU), through the Africa Centre for Scholarships, jointly hosted a two-week-long workshop on Scientific Writing and... Read more »

Woodland regeneration following agricultural land abandonment

Kavango East region, northeastern Namibia The aim of this study was to understand the potential of agricultural land abandonment for woodland regeneration. Firstly, vegetation composition in 152 plots (50 m x 20... Read more »

Research sheds light on small-scale fishery along the Namibian coastline

A day in the life of a small-scale fisherman in Henties Bay A joint research project between the University of Namibia (UNAM) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, titled Namibia Marine Ecosystem Services for Marine... Read more »

Scientists reveal the first picture of a black hole in our Galaxy, called Sagittarius A*

 At simultaneous press conferences around the world, including the University of Namibia (UNAM) in Windhoek, astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own... Read more »

Cooperative Research Project at UNAM to address plastic waste in Namibia

The University of Namibia (UNAM) in collaboration with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) have embarked on a project to address plastic waste management under the title: Assessment... Read more »

NAMCLEAR donates computing equipment to aid students’ practical learning

Namclear, the sole clearinghouse in Namibia, recently donated computing equipment to the University of Namibia (UNAM) to support students’ practical learning and the university’s innovation and technology hub. The donation consists of... Read more »

Cosmic particle accelerator at its limit

H.E.S.S. researchers observe time-dependent particle acceleration outside our solar system for the first time Novae are powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system, in which... Read more »

Namibia reaches another milestone in physiotherapy

– MVA makes it possible for UNAM to graduate first locally trained physiotherapists – Relatively speaking, Physiotherapy is one of the youngest programmes at the University of Namibia (UNAM). The programme is... Read more »