We are delighted to announce that Wyss Academy Hub East Africa Director Dr. Benson Okita was in Nairobi today, to shake hands with Vice-Chancellor Prof. Stephen Kiama Gitahi of the University of Nairobi (UoN) on a collaboration agreement with the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies! The handshake marks the signing of a collaborative framework between the two organizations that will form the basis for working together in such areas as Biodiversity, Water, Climate Change, Sustainability and Environmental Governance.

This important partnership with the University of Nairobi's Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, named after Nobel laureate, the late Prof. Wangari Maathai, represents a milestone for the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern (WA) in Kenya. It came about through the involvement of several people who saw the potential in finding innovative solutions for Kenya and the world, by strengthening the collaboration between institutions in the Global North and South and by merging the University of Nairobi's substantial and diverse expertise with the Wyss Academy's unique approach to translating knowledge into action. We would like to acknowledge the enormous contributions toward this collaboration of Prof. Thuita Thenya (UoN), Prof. Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor (WA) and Christine Nyangweso (PhD student, UoN).