Scientific partners

The Center for Development Research (ZEF) was founded in 1995 and started its actual research activities in 1997. ZEF's research aims at finding solutions to development-related issues. ZEF is an institute affiliated to the University of Bonn by being directly subordinated to the University's senate. The work of the Center is supported by an external, international Advisory Board. By covering three main research areas, which are interrelated through interdisciplinary research projects, ZEF offers a broad and integrated perspective on development. The research programs build on the methods and analytical styles of the disciplinary research areas and link and integrate knowledge and capacities from these different areas. ZEF's three research departments are:

• • Political and Cultural Change
• • Economic and Technological Change
• • Ecology and Natural Resources Management

Through its Bonn Doctoral Studies Program, ZEF contributes to strengthening the international development research community in Germany, Europe and the developing world. The program is educating highly qualified academic staff, advisers, and managers for both the private and public sectors. ZEF publishes its own book and dissertation, discussion and working paper series, in addition to its non-scientific output (ZEF news, Annual Reports, Policy Briefs). ZEF staff members publish regularly in international scientific peer-reviewed journals.

Contact: prof. Joachim Von Braun