On Hanns Seidel Foundation Scholars
Returning HSF Scholars Ready to Contribute to the Development of the Philippines
(3rd from the left) Ms. Mamaradlo with the BMZ Division 220 colleagues (Policy Issues on Development Cooperation with Asia, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia)
Photo by: Ms. Marivic D. Mamaradlo
Serving as Desk Officer on the Philippines-Germany Development Cooperation and a technical staff of the Investment Coordination Committee (ICC) Core Secretariat Division of National Economic Development Authority-Public Investment Staff (NEDA-PIS), Senior Economic Development Specialist Ms. Marivic D. Mamaradlo trained under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Zusammenarbeit, BMZ). Focused on the current Philippine-Germany Development Cooperation Program and the selected German Government undertakings, her program was a joint collaboration amongst the NEDA, BMZ, German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt, AA) and the HSF.
The three-month training program of Ms. Mamaradlo from March to June 2016 included work-based learning exchanges in the Philippine Embassy in Berlin, the BMZ’s offices in Berlin and in Bonn, Porsche in Stuttgart and in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit, BMUB). The training program aimed to develop further understanding on the Philippine and German governments’ development cooperation processes, focusing on the thematic and geographical areas of the bilateral official development assistance from the German government. The BMZ remarked that “the exchange program helped both sides to gain a more in-depth mutual understanding of each side's working processes and scope for action with regard to the bilateral cooperation program.”
As part of her doctoral research work at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, MPICC) in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Atty. Ma. Angela Leonor C. Aguinaldo, J.D., LL.M., Senior Associate and External Relations Officer at the M.A. Aguinaldo and Associates as well as Lecturer at the Ateneo De Manila University School of Law, returned to the Philippines recently after a one-year research stay to conduct interviews with experts and consult various publications towards her doctorate research work currently entitled: “East Meets West? Development of Interregional Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) and the European Union (“EU”).”
Aside from “tracing the historical development, present state, and future development of mutual cooperation and assistance in criminal matters within the association of South East Asian Nations (“ASEAN”),” her research will also examine the critical similarities and differences between the ASEAN and the EU models. Now a doctoral candidate and a research fellow at the MPICC, Atty. Aguinaldo will return to Germany this August 2016 to continue her research at the institute.
(3rd from the left) Dr. Salao and her colleagues
Photo by: Dr. May Zuleika Q. Salao
People organisation and skill formation is the focus of Dr. May Zuleika Q. Salao’s research project, “Skill Formation: How does Philippine society form its work skills?,” the first phase of which she conducted from May to July 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, MPIfG) in Cologne, Germany as a Visiting Researcher. “The long-term goal is to establish in my university and in the country, my research, teaching and social service extension niche on skill formation in the creative industries,” opined Dr. Salao.
With the end view in mind of institutionalising her research work at the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) where she serves as Assistant Professor at the School of Law and Governance, through the organisation of a volunteer research group in the university, Dr. Salao starts the data gathering phase in the Philippines this August 2016, with fieldwork in the provinces of Laguna and Ifugao, sourcing primary data through participant observations, interviews and focus group discussions and also, archival research. Dr. Salao received her PhD degree in 2015 from the University of the Philippines for her research work with the MPIfG on “The Animation Industry in the Philippines: Institution-Building for Skill Formation.” Her current research is an expansion of this previous research project. Last 20 July 2016, Dr. Salao was recognised in the MPIfG’s newsletter as a New Researcher.
The Foundation sees its support to scholars as an “investment in the future with the aim of enabling the trained experts to play their part in the independent further development of their home countries so as to turn these into politically stable and economically strong partners for the entire world.” Scholarships, with a duration of 3 to 12 months, are granted for research projects, internships or the final phase of research studies or doctorates.