Hi everyone, my name is Kirstin Ohlendorf, I am studying “Integrated Natural Resource Management” in Berlin. As a student reporter I will mostly be blogging from the sessions and presentations. I am a student reporter, because I am generally interested in the Topentag, but especially in the this years theme "Agricultural development within the rural-urban continuum".

Hi to those reading the blog. My name is Vince Canger, a student of the Universities of Göttingen and Kassel, and I will be reporting and partly responsible for video editing at this year's Tropentag Conference. I am looking forward to gaining some good experience on agricultural communications work and also to learning about new perspectives and developments coming from the field.

Eva studies “Sustainable International Agriculture” at the University of Göttingen. She is about to start her master thesis in the Nakuru district in West Kenya regarding “Post harvest milk losses”.

Paulina is from Mexico and she has been living in Germany for 5 years. She is doing her masters in Hohenheim University in Stuttgart on Organic Agriculture and Food Systems. She is very much interested in rural development issues in the Tropical regions and she thinks it is a great opportunity to be a student reporter and do networking with students and professionals in the Tropentag, and to hear about current topics and first-hand knowledge from the presentations. Paulina hopes that she will find an inspiration for her master thesis topic from the ideas that she will collect from the conference.

Philipp, student reporter welcomes you to the Tropentag! Philipp is an MSc Student in Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg. Being a hardcore Bavarian, he chooses instead to work in South East Asia as a consultant for science and sustainability communication! You can follow his blog on ‘sustainability science beyond the ivory tower’ on this website

INTRODUCTORY TRAINING Topics: Social Media, Photo and Video Editing By Andreas Riechel and Roland Altenburger Introduction to Social Media Session Photography Session Videography Session