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2026 12 January 2026
Congratulations on the Successful PhD Defence, Deepthi!
It has been quite a journey. In January 2022 Deepthi Patric began working on her PhD at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, this within the WoPedyP project.
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2025 20 November 2025
5h and Last Stakeholder Workshop (18 Nov 2025)
The last stakeholder workshop had been planned as an opportunity to showcase the project results and outcomes.
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2025 10 October 2025
Project Results Published in Big Earth Data Journal
Felipe Vásquez Tavera had contributed to the WoPedyP project via his Masters’ thesis. His work, although differently structured and not including his WebGIS tool for visualizing the results, has been turned into a scientific paper.
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2025 20 March 2025
4th Stakeholder Workshop on 11 March 2025
We returned to Mankweng at the beginning of our 4th and last project year. Our aim was a benefit-uncertainty-analysis of what we had started at the 2nd and 3rd stakeholder workshops in March 2024...
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2024 5 December 2024
Empowering Future Leaders: International Student Symposium on SDGs
The International Student Symposium on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Implications for People and Planet...
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2024 28 October 2024
The Karlsruhe Chronicles: My Research Stay in 9 Questions and Answers
Thick, grey clouds crowd the sky above. The bottom of each cloud appears flatter and darker than the top, creating the impression that they are pressed against some invisible dome stretching across the sky.
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2024 15 October 2024
My Short Tour around Hochschule Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Environs during the Visit by Women’s Perception and Place Dynamics (WoPedyP) Research Project
On the last week of September 2024, South African members of the Women’s Perception and Place Dynamics (WoPedyP) Research Project attended a Mini‐conference/Workshop that was held in Hochschule Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
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2024 8 October 2024
Chasing the Luck of the Irish: WopedyP Represented in Dublin, Nerhene Davis
Nerhene Davis presented a paper entitled “We belong to the soil”: Women’s sense of place and livelihoods dynamics in Mankweng and surrounding areas, South Africa at the 35th International Geographical Congress that was held in Dublin, Ireland from 24th-30th August 2024.
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2024 5 October 2024
Exciting Outcomes of the Transformative Pathways Mini Conference, 23-24 September
From the 23-24 September 2024 the “Transformative Pathways: Place-shaping in Peri-urban Landscapes” conference was hosted at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences on behalf of the WopedyP team.
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2024 25 September 2024
WoPedyP Mini Conference in Karlsruhe – A Master’s Student’s Perspective.
When I approached Prof. Schaab about doing a Master’s thesis with her, I never expected to be involved in the WoPedyP project in such a way.
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2024 28 July 2024
Highlights from 43rd EARSeL Symposium at Manchester, UK
As one of the known annual events in the remote sensing community, EARSeL brought together researchers, students, and professionals to explore the latest trends in Earth observation and offered a vibrant mix of oral and poster sessions, with engaging discussions.
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2024 10 July 2024
Early Career Development: Delivering a Lecture to MSc Students at the University of Stuttgart
As discussed in a previous blog [insert hyperlink], Prof. Schaab and I attended a hybrid workshop held in Bonn between 19 and 20 April 2024. While Prof. Schaab attended the workshop in person, I decided—on account of the duration of the workshop—to participate and present from the confines of the University of Pretoria in South Africa rather than travel to Bonn, Germany.
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2024 2 July 2024
Participating in the AGILE 2024 Conference in Glasgow
The AGILE conference is a yearly venue organized by the European academic geoinformation community. In June 2024 we took the chance of presenting of our results related to coming up with a settlement typology for Mankweng and surroundings.
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2024 25 June 2024
Celebrating Partnership: WoPedyP's Heartwarming Visit to WeCanWomen Development Centre
We have an inspiring story to share from our recent visit to the WeCan Women Development Centre
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2024 29 April 2024
Perspectives from the “Urban Geographies in the Global South” Workshop – 19-20 April 2024, Bonn, Germany
Gertrud Schaab and Yajna Sewmohan from the WoPedyP team attended and presented at the 2024 workshop of the working group “Urban Geographies in the Global South,” held in Bonn.
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2024 15 April 2024
Another Round of Fieldwork Plus Visit to WCW
The plan had been, that Deepthi would take the chance of coming to South Africa again for the stakeholder workshops in March 2024 to also close remaining gaps in being able to make complete sense out of her WorldView-3 satellite image scene of the peri-urban part of the Mankweng study area. In the end, getting hold of a visa did unfortunately not wok out for her and instead I had to travel by my own and do ground truthing for her.
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2024 12 April 2024
A Vibrant World Café Experience with WoPedyP
Hello, fellow changemakers! In March 2024, the WoPedyP research team hosted an unforgettable World Café event, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders from our study area and various government representatives.
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2023 3 October 2023
WoPedyP at SSAG
Several members of the WoPedyP team took part in the Society of South African Geographers Conference 2022 that was hosted by the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria (12 – 14 September 2023).
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2023 20 September 2023
DAAD Conference in Brussels (Belgium)
When I saw the announcement of a conference on “Applied Sciences as drivers for regional innovation ecosystems in Africa” held in Brussels (5-6 Sep 2023) targeting especially Universities of Applied Sciences to jointly work on recommendations to further develop the EU-Africa Partnership in the field of higher education and research, I through we should apply...
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2023 12 July 2023
Focus Groups Discussions with the WoPedyP Project Partners
From 3-7 June 2023, the WoPedyP Project partners gathered at the University of Limpopo to host dynamic focus groups discussions with women from four study sites
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2023 12 July 2023
“Welcome to 2063!”
Between 04 July and 07 July, members of the WoPedyP project team carried out focus group activities with voluntary participants from our four selected study sites namely, Nchechane, Nobody (Ga-Mothapo), Mankweng and Ramogale.
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2023 10 June 2023
Participatory Mapping “mo Makweng”
On 3 July 2023, the South African team of WoPedyP kicked off our weeklong focus group data collection. Each study site had a different number of participants with age ranges varying.
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2023 3 May 2023
ISRSE39: A Post-Conference Account
ISRSE39, 2023: The 39th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment took place in Antalya, Turkey, from April 24 to 28, 2023.
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2022 22 November 2022
Visit by BMBF and DLR-PT Representatives at the University of Pretoria, 16 November 2022
The visit came as a surprise, but was most welcome after the official kick-off in Bonn was called off due to a lack of more 2020 SAG-CORE-funded projects.
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2022 10 October 2022
University of Pretoria: Here's My Verdict!
An exchange in a foreign country can be a nerve-wracking journey including excitement as well as apprehensions about the forthcoming challenges. might ask, 'Why them?'
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2022 10 October 2022
Unleashing Technical Potential at We Can Women
In this blog post, we talk about a training session at We Can Women, aiming to empower women by enabling them to map their places of interest and neighborhoods. You might ask, 'Why them?'
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2022 15 September 2022
Codesign with We Can Women Staff Members towards a Logo and Webpages
On 12 September 2022, a small workshop took place at the University of Limpopo. Three senior staff members of the We Can Woman NPO wanted to engage in logo design for their organization and learn how to plan content for a website.
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2022 13 September 2022
Want to Listen to What WoPedyP Is About?
Esther Mmasetepa Masekoameng, the founder and director of the We Can Women Development Centre and a project partner in the WoPedyP project has the floor.
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2022 12 September 2022
WoPedyP’s Visit to the Mothapo Traditional Authority
On the 31st of August 2022 the WoPedyP research group (UL; UP and HKA) visited the Ga-Mothapo traditional authority with the aim to discuss pressing issues that the women in the community are facing.
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2022 12 September 2022
Polokwane Municipality: WoPedyP's Eye-Opening Visit
Hey there, fellow researchers! The WoPedyP research team took a trip to the Polokwane Municipality in 2022, and boy, was it an adventure!
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2022 12 September 2022
Internal WoPedyP Workshop/Meeting at UL – Updating Each Other and Looking Ahead
From 29 Aug to 1 Sep 2022, the entire WopedyP team met in Mankweng, with the meeting being hosted by Prof Ramudzuli and Izelque Botha at the University of Limpopo.
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2022 5 September 2022
Accompanying WoPedyP Postgrad Students for Their Fieldwork – Finally Getting to Know the Study Area
The PhD student Deepthi, placed at Hochschule Karlsruhe in Germany, had already been in the field collecting ground truth data and talking to informants, before I got the chance of accompanying her in early Sep 2022.
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2022 5 September 2022
Ground Truthing Experience at Mankweng!
In remote sensing, “ground truth“ refers to information collected on ground. Ground truth allows image data to be related to real features and materials on the ground.
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2022 25 July 2022
A Wealth of Opportunity: Involving University of Limpopo Undergraduate Students in Research
At the beginning of the project, the team members at the University of Limpopo (UL) recognized the value of involving a group of final year students in the research process of a larger research project.
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2022 20 July 2022
Reflections from the Fieldwork Conducted
From 29th June to 10th July 2022 the members of the WoPedyP project team ventured out into the communities of Nchechane, Nobody (Ga-Mothapo), Mankweng and Ramogale to conduct questionnaire based interviews.
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2021 5 December 2021
Reflections on Our First WoPedyP Workshop in Mankweng (22-25 Nov 2021)
What a nice start and surprise: at We can Woman Development Centre the project team was greeted with dancing and singing! Wearing community face masks added to the colourful dressing. And luckily, excitement was expressed through clapping and cheering, too, because during COVID-19 the many smiles are unfortunately hidden. However, we had made friends already and could drive on with our trip through the study area.