Welcome to the fifth episode of the Africast podcast!In today's episode, Dr. Samuel Dodoo, who has a PhD in Physics from the TU Berlin and an MBA in Finance from the KNUST, talks about infrastructure and mobility in Ghana.Dr. Dodoo has experience with renewable energy systems and is currently working with MGM Trading & Engineering as a project manager.We also learn about the aCar project, which aims to bring electric vehicles to developing countries. The projects was started by the TU Munich in collaboration with the KNUST in Kumasi. It has led to the creation of the startup Evum Motors, with the founders Martin Šoltés and Sascha Koberstaedt.

Evum Motors: https://evum-motors.com/MGM Trading & Engineering: http://mgm-trading-engineering.com/

What is the Africast podcast?Africast started as a group project within the scholarship program of the TUM: Junge Akademie. The three students behind this project are Jaimee Lau, Marius Merkle and Patrick Sowinski, all of them students at the Technical University of Munich with different study backgrounds. Currently, a total of seven podcast episodes is planned to be released in 2019. The guests will range from students and academic workers to researchers and professionals from Ghana. Our goal is to raise awareness for academic projects in Ghana and to help people from Germany and Europe to learn more about them. The project was inspired by the TUM Africa Initiative, which aims to strengthen the collaboration between the TUM and different universities in Africa.

In the next episode, Prof. de Vries will talk about the collaboration between TUM and KNUST!

Links:TUM: Junge Akademie - https://www.ja.tum.de/en/home/Info about Africa Initiative: https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/35122/UCC: https://ucc.edu.gh/KNUST: https://www.knust.edu.gh/

Intro music:Rollin at 5 by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/