When it comes to being multidisciplinary and multitasking, one may find in Pin Pravalprukskul a good example. Pin is a MSc. in Sustainable Development in Agriculture (Agris Mundus) student who will be on both sides of the Tropentag 2014 conference. She will present a poster from her work in Kenya, where she investigated how farmers make decisions regarding soil management. But Pin will also be a student reporter for the conference, using her previous experience in the university newspaper in Copenhagen and an online magazine for her masters' programme. One will also find in Pin a passionate human being with diverse interests. Her desire regarding the conference is to find out the latest progresses in agricultural development, climate change adaptation, soil management and the relationship between gender and agricultural development. Pin opinionates that Tropentag is the first conference with a topic that addresses most of her interests, with an interdisciplinary approach that tries to understand how agricultural systems wok and how different fields are linked with each other.

Tropentag is an international conference where professors, researchers and students convene to share new information or findings about their research. Student reporters play a big role in informing the public about the conference especially reaching the young people. So what interest David to join the student reporters team? Continue

To understand Ruffy Rodrigo’s interest in Tropentag, you have to know, that he finished his studies in Forestry just to start an additional master in “tropical and international forestry”. He is familiar with these thematics, because before he moved to Göttingen last year, he lived in the Phillipines in Villaba. Despite from the cold winters he enjoys living in the laid-back town.

There is not only a scientific interest in his visit to the conference: Ruffy also wants to meet and connect to researchers and professors from all over the world – or maybe even find a supvervisor for his PhD or a future employer.

Juan Egas is no stranger to crossing communication boundaries. He first got a taste of the world of lobbying through his previous work at the Ministry of Agriculture in his native Ecuador, where he developed a passion for connecting stakeholders from different arenas. He currently co-runs a blog on sustainability, and plans on using his Student Reporter skills to make complex scientific ideas more digestible for his readers. Continue

"There is enough knowledge existent already. It is a time to deliver this to users.” - this is a conclusion that we got to during the interview with Jose.

< After two editions at Tropentag (2010, 11) Steffen got into position of Student Reporter. He is currently working on his master thesis about the Soil Stability with Organic Cotton at Hohenheim University. His experience from one year stay in India, where he experienced the importants farming, was the reason for his thesis topic. Now he would like to help to the overall conference to transfer the scientific language to the understandable words. His reason to be a student reporter is also to work in an international team as he experienced from his stay in India. Besides the scientific life he does the photography and video editing. Beside that he is working in an NGO called Slowfood Network where he has also experienced journalism.