Project duration: 2020-2024 Coordinator: University of Turku (UTU) Partners: Ardhi University (ARU), Moshi Co-operative University (MoCU), Novia University of Applied Sciences (NOVIA), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) Funding: Higher Education Institutions, Institutional Cooperation Instrument (HEI ICI) (funded by […]
Young wheat seedlings growing in a field. Green wheat growing in soil. Close up on sprouting rye agricultural on a field in sunset. Sprouts of rye Project duration: 2023 – 2025 Coordinator: ICOS ERIC Partners: ICOS ERIC, University of Pretoria, University of Witswatersrand, Kenya Meteorological Department, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Funding: EU Horizon Website: https://kadi-project.eu/
Geospatial Challenge Camp (GCC) Challenge-based course for tackling real-world challenges in cross-disciplinary teams The Geospatial Challenge Camp is a skills development and innovation service of Geoportti Research Infrastructure and Location Innovation Hub (LIH), which is one of the European Digital Innovation Hubs. The Geospatial Challenge Camp is a 10-week long challenge-based course (5 ECTS) that
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Multi-Competence Learning (MCL) playbook What is MCL? In Multi-Competence Learning (MCL) campaigns, student teams analyse complex real world problems and co-create new ideas and sustainable solutions to these problems with the support of geospatial data and digital technologies. Multi-Competence Learning (MCL) methodology is following a challenge-based learning (CBL) pedagogy, where students work in multidisciplinary teams,
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Project duration: 2008 – 2010 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: Academy of Finland (Development Research) Rural Settlement Development, Land Ownership and Food Security since Ujamaa era in Eastern Tanzania This research project studied the developments in rural Tanzania since the villagization process, which was implemented in the 1960’s upto 1980’s. At the time of the
Project duration: 2008 – 2015 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: NSS / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland North-South-South (NSS) staff and student exchange networks coordinated by Åbo Akademi (2008-2010, 2011-2013) and UTU (2013-2015) The aim of the education collaboration project was to improve the understanding of the linkage between human rights and sustainable development
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Project duration: 2010 – 2013 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: Academy of Finland (Development Research) Changing land use and forest management practices and multidimensional adaptation strategies in Zanzibar, Tanzania The research project studied prevailing land use and forest management practices and their historical changes and associated socio-economic values in Zanzibar Islands. The aim was to
Project duration: 2012 – 2016 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: Academy of Finland Knowledge Creation Processes (KREPRO) The research group Knowledge Creation Processes (KREPRO) studied how knowledge is created in processes through various combinations of space and time. The project studied knowledge creation in different fields of activities such as academy, arts, business and community.
Project duration: 2013 – 2016 Leader: UTU Geography and UDSM Geography Funding: HEI-ICI / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland HEI-GIS capacities in Geography education at the University of Dar es Salaam This HEI-GIS project aimed at developing teaching, learning and infrastructural capacities of the University of Dar es Salaam (Dept. of Geography) in
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Project duration: 2016 (6 months) Leader: UTU Geography Funding: FAO Finland Niina KäyhköSalla Eilola UTU-FAO Forest Plantation Mapping in the Southern Highlands Forest plantation mapping solutions for the Private Forestry Programme was a 6 months project between Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and UTU Geography. The aim of the project was to estimate forest
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