Textfeld: With two quotations Prof. Dr. Holger Magel opens his welcome speech to the 12 new students joining the Master’s Programme Land Management and Land Tenure for the Academic Year 2008 - 2010: “This is the time to act actively to change the situation. We need to build institutional capacity, policies and programme at local, national and regional level to achieve the Millennium Development Goals“ emphasized Prof. Dr. Magel: in its currently implementation the rate of its failure is higher than its success. Furthermore he mentioned the growing number of over one billion people living in slum conditions and the present world food crisis as two essential global problems to solve with suitable instruments and policies Textfeld: in managing the scarcely amount of land. Beside the speeches of Ms. Dorith von Behaim (GTZ, Sector Project Land Management), Mr. Willi Lange (Hanns Seidel Foundation), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Vogt (Dean, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, TUM) and Mr. Bruce Rukundo (on behalf of Alumni of the Master’s Programme) the new students from 10 Textfeld: More than four billion people all over the world are presently affected by the land issue! Hernando de Soto The Millennium Development Goals are still achievable if we act now. This will require inclusive sound governance, increased public investment, economic growth, enhanced productive capacity, and the creation of decent work. Ban Ki-moon, UN's Secretary General

Dipl.-Ing. MSc Jorge Espinoza, Ms. Dorith von Behaim (GTZ), Prof. Dr. Holger Magel and Dean Prof. Dr. Norbert Vogt

OPENING ceremony 2008

The new students of the Master‘s Programme

NOVEMBER 2008

Volume 3, Issue 1

Newsletter:

Land Management and land tenure

 

Opening Ceremony 2008

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2008-2010

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New in Munich

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SUMMER School in Phnom Penh

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Cooperation with Birzeit University

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KEY FACTS ABOUT LMLT

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NEW AND Feature Titles

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Special points of interest:

· Committed to a sustainable future for Cambodia

· Workshop in Palestine

 

Senator E.h. Gerhard Hess, Dr. Michael Klaus and Ms. Fahria Masum (MSc)

He and the Programme Director Prof. Dr. Magel were both delighted to welcome the new master course. It will be a “very hard but at the same time wonderful journey”. With all the resources that the TUM will offer, all the skills of thinking, analysis,  teamwork and international experience the students will learn, the “professional path after being graduated will be diverse and enriched if they make use of the opportunity”. Finally, the world is passing through a hard time and “needs people like you”.

Textfeld: Centre of Land AND ENVironmental RISK management at the technische universitaet muenchen
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