Focus point: Solar Energy Partnership with Africa : An Inter-disciplinary Research Project

Abstract

In the summer of 2007 an inter-disciplinary working group was formed at the Justus-Liebig-University to sound out the opportunities and challenges of an energy partnership with Africa. In a series of interdisciplinary lecturesand at a conference in June 2008 this subject was further explored. Additional conferences and workshops, as well as research projects on certain aspects of the subject will follow. Physicists, chemists, geographers, historians,political scientists, economists, and jurists are currently participating. In the following articles several of the participating researchers present questions and possible solutions from their disciplinary perspectives.