The hybrid SpeechBase symposium "Hearing Impairment" at MUHAS took place on 29th and 30th June 2021 and created a fruitful synergy with a directly following two-day training course for the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in the project cooperation HEAR Africa! between Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Medical University Hannover (MHH) and German Hearing Centre (DHZ) and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS).