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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 610153-EPP-1-2019-1-SE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
    Funder Contribution: 999,185 EUR

    Climate change and induced disasters have direct negative impacts on the environment. Increasing the knowledge of experts on using spatial methods to cope with climate change effects and related disasters, as well as providing proper tools for spatial analysis to support planning and decision making, will improve the quality of environmental management in Mozambique and Africa.Three 10 ECTS courses will be developed in this project for training students on the applications and use of spatial methods for disaster modelling and management. Disaster management authorities, organisations, and companies in Mozambique need Geographical Information Science (GIS)/Remote Sensing (RS) experts to cope with an increasing influence of climate change, while there is lack of experts on these topics. This implies that the students who will be trained on these topics will have a high chance of being employed. A disaster management tool (DMT) will be developed. The partners, together with the public, will at the end be the main users of the DMT, and their staff will be using the developed courses to increase their knowledge on the applications of GIS/RS in disaster modelling and management. In general, this project establishes a type of cooperation between universities, government and business that supports the “knowledge triangle innovation” thematic area.eLearning systems will be established in Mozambican partner universities, so the developed courses as well as other programmes can be offered in distance mode. This is very beneficial specially for vulnerable groups who cannot attend in-campus programmes. Trainers will be trained on how to teach the courses. Dissemination activities will be conducted to increase the general knowledge and awareness of public and organizations on spatial methods and their applications for disaster management.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 586047-EPP-1-2017-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
    Funder Contribution: 999,177 EUR

    The UDI-A project wants to empower HEI from partner countries to play an effective impacting role in fostering sustainable and inclusive development in their region and country. African partners will play this role by helping their students to connect with local economic activity and local social processes in a way that these students will either create new value chains or help to enhance the existing ones. UDI-A project aims to enhance the quality of teaching and research at four African universities (in Angola and Mozambique) in selected areas, where there is a lack of qualified teachers and a high demand for graduates. In both countries, the project counts one big established university in the capital city and one smaller institution in a province.Each of the African universities will work in pairs with one European partner (TWIN). Academic staff at the African institutions will be trained both in terms of scientific content and teaching methodologies. Administrative staff will be trained in international affairs, student placement and entrepreneurship. The Consortium will organise collective training activities with an emphasis on soft skills development, social innovation and entrepreneurship. Each African partner will select 16 academics and 4 administrators (CHAMPIONS and JUNIORS) to take part in the training and other project activities. As from the 4th and final semester the activities will be open to other staff members and students as well.The two year project will result in 4 x 20 staff members, internationally networked and trained to provide state-of-the-art higher education and services in their respective areas.In parallel to the training, these teams will build or renew at each of the four African institutions a 'Centre for Academic Development and Innovation' (CADIs). The CADIs will provide the infrastructure and framework conditions to help promote and ensure continued networking and training for more cohorts of staff beyond the project lifes

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 101082202
    Funder Contribution: 399,985 EUR

    "GEODES - ""Geosciences, Development and Sustainability - Africa and Europe together"":ReasonOperational Objectives:(i) Welcoming four Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from less developed areas (centre and south of Angola, and centre and northeast of Mozambique);(ii) Technical training of teachers & final year students from six HEIs: Angola (UAN, UKB, UMN), Mozambique (UEM, ULurio, UPungue) in the area of Earth Sciences;(iii) Empowerment of the trainers from two HEIs (UAN, UEM) on training country fellows;(iii) Upgrading and developing BSc (4) and MSc courses (2) in the area of Earth Sciences. The collaboration of companies in Angola and Mozambique will be crucial for the internships and for suiting the CVs to the industrial needs.Political Objective:To prepare the ground for a ""GEODES Initiative"": Earth Sciences are the basis for a resilient and sustainable development and empowerment of students and trainers on Local Community Development (LCD) as opposed to Local Economic Development (LED)”.It follows the recommendations from the AU Agenda 2063 and the UN-SD Goals: (1), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (17).Outputs/Outcomes:Four updated BSc courses and two MSc courses involving the training of at least 20 teachers and more than 100 students in two years of ongoing courses; about 30 internships in companies; bibliographic materials will be prepared and eLearning courses delivered. Sustainability measures of the project objectives put in place. Effective dissemination of results.Long term impact:Facilitate communication and exchange among scientists by bringing together complementary interests so as to improve standards, methods and techniques for carrying out research, including the transfer of fundamental and applied knowledge between partners. The partnership brings a new attitude regarding the exploitation of resources in Africa and a resilient attitude to face climate changes."

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 573579-EPP-1-2016-1-AT-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP
    Funder Contribution: 989,766 EUR

    “LaTFURE – Learning and Teaching Tools Fuelling University Relations with the Economy in Mozambique and South Africa” helps to fight disparity between the regions and societal groups in Mozambique and South Africa (as expressed with partly violent student protests in 2015). The introduction of dual study programs leads to an increasing employability of graduates, societal relevance of research, and innovation, resulting in a development of the economy and the society. Dual study programs combine learning periods at a university and at a work-place. Through close cooperation between employers and professors, theory and practice are constantly combined. The consortium includes some of Europe’s most experienced universities for dual programs, like the Danube University Krems and the Dual University of Baden-Württemberg, both with almost 100% of working students. German CHE contributes latest research results on the topic. In MZ and ZA, the 9 partner universities comprise prestigious institutions that are accepted role-models like the University of Cape Town, and universities in disadvantaged settings. In both countries, the science ministries fully support the aims of the project, which is also expressed by their full partnership in the consortium. Business partners like PwC and SANParks (ex Kruger) support the consortium. The project develops programmes in extractive industries and tourism as two of the key sectors for development in Southern Africa (need for innovation in mining, newly-found oil and gas deposits, lack of skilled tourism experts in ZA, increasing business tourism to MZ). Mechanisms and tools are developed in a way so they can easily be adapted for other disciplines and in neighbouring countries at a later stage. Most learning and teaching tools are produced online to make it easy for other countries to copy for their needs. The documents will be available in English and Portuguese, making it understandable for large parts of the African continent.

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  • Funder: UK Research and Innovation Project Code: NE/K010484/1
    Funder Contribution: 1,207,240 GBP

    This project aims to better understand the links between ecosystem services (ES) and wellbeing in order to design and implement more effective interventions for poverty alleviation. We do this in the context of coastal, social-ecological systems in two poor African countries; Kenya and Mozambique. Despite recent policy and scientific interest in ES, there remain important knowledge gaps regarding how ecosystems actually contribute to wellbeing, and thus poverty alleviation. Following the ESPA framework, distinguishing ecological processes, 'final ES', 'capital inputs', 'goods' and 'values', this project is concerned with how these elements are interrelated to produce ES benefits, and focuses specifically on how these benefits are distributed to (potentially) benefit the poor, enhancing their wellbeing. We thus address the ESPA goal of understanding and promoting ways in which benefits to the poorest can be increased and more people can meet their basic needs, but we also identify conflicted tradeoffs, i.e. those which result in serious harm to either the ecosystem or poor people and which need urgent attention. Several fundamental questions are currently debated in international scientific and policy fora, relating to four major global trends which are likely to affect abilities of poor people to access ES benefits: (1) devolution of governance power and its impacts on local governance of ecosystems and production of ES, (2) unprecedented rates and scales of environmental change, particularly climate change, which are creating new vulnerabilities, opportunities and constraints, 'shifting baselines', and demanding radical changes in behaviour to cope, (3) market integration now reaches the most remote corners of the developing world, changing relationships between people and resources and motivations for natural resource management, (4) societal changes, including demographic, population, urbanisation and globalisation of culture, forge new relationships with ES and further decouple people from direct dependency on particular resources. Study sites have been chosen so as to gather empirical evidence to help answer key questions about how these four drivers of change affect abilities of poor people to benefit from ES. We aim for direct impact on the wellbeing of poor inhabitants of the rapidly transforming coastal areas in Mozambique and Kenya, where research will take place, while also providing indirect impact to coastal poor in other developing countries through our international impact strategy. Benefits from research findings will also accrue to multiple stakeholders at various levels. Local government, NGOs and civil society groups - through engagement with project activities, e.g. participation in workshops and exposure to new types of analysis and systems thinking. Donor organizations and development agencies - through research providing evidence to inform strategies to support sector development (e.g. fisheries, coastal planning and tourism development) and methods to understand and evaluate impacts of different development interventions - e.g. through tradeoff analysis and evaluation of the elasticities between ecosystem services and wellbeing. International scientific community - through dissemination of findings via conferences, scientific publications (open access), and from conceptual and theoretical development and new understandings of the multiple linkages between ecosystem services and wellbeing. Regional African scientists will benefit specifically through open courses offered within the scope of the project, and through dissemination of results at regional venues. Our strategies to deliver impact and benefits include (1) identifying 'windows of opportunity' within the context of ongoing coastal development processes to improve flows of benefits from ecosystems services to poor people, and (2) identifying and seeking to actively mitigate 'conflicted' tradeoffs in Kenya and Mozambique.

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