Projects

Resilience Academy for SASA (2024-2025)

Resilience Academy is a partner in the Green and Smart Cities SASA in Tanzania programme, by supporting critically needed geospatial data collection with the RA methodology.
Project website: https://www.dai.com/our-work/projects/tanzania-green-and-smart-cities-sasa

KADI (2023-2025)

Knowledge and climate Services from an African observation and Data research Infrastructure is an interdisciplinary African-European cooperation project designing and piloting comprehensive science-based concepts for atmospheric and climate service infrastructures on the African continent.
Project website: https://kadi-project.eu/

FPCUP - WG Africa (2023-2024)

Framework Partnership Agreement for Copernicus User Uptake - Working Group Africa builds meaningful capacities of African experts to respond regional and local challenges with Copernicus services and applications.
Project website: https://www.copernicus-user-uptake.eu/user-uptake/details/copernicus-user-uptake-in-africa-492

GeoICT4e (2020-2024)

Improving management and teaching capacities in the impact-driven and socially innovative geospatial and ICT education in Tanzania, leading to graduates’ better employment.
Project website: https://www.geoict.org/

FAPI pilot for DIDAIhub (2022-2023)

DIDAIhub is a pilot project under the Finland-Africa platform for Innovation (SDG9). it provides a community platform and a catalyst for innovative research and learning solutions with global impacts at the University of Turku.
Project website: https://didaihub.utu.fi/ & https://fapi.utu.fi/

Resilience Academy for Litterati (2022 and 2023)

Resilience Academy collaborated with Litterati Inc. and Tanzanian city governments to employ citizens and university students to collect geospatial data of litter in Dar es Salaam and Mtwara.

Past projects

Tanzanian Resilience Academy (2019 - 2023)

Project website: https://resilienceacademy.ac.tz/
Leader and partners: UTU with UDSM, ARU, SUZA and SUA
Funding: The World Bank

Geo-ICT (2017 - 2020)

Geospatial and ICT capabilites in Tanzanian Higheer Education Institutions
Leader and partners: UTU with UDSM, ARU, SUZA and SUA
Funding: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland / HEI-ICI

SUSLAND (2014 - 2018)

Sustainability, scale relations and structure-function-benefit chains in the landscape systems of the Tanzanian Southern Highlands
Leader: UTU Geography
Funding: Academy of Finland (Development Research) and University of Turku

GESEC (2016 - 2018)

Geospatial Business Ecosystem in Tanzania
Leader: UTU Geography and Future Technologies
Funding: Business Finland / BEAM (former TEKES)

ZAN-SDI (2016 - 2018)

National Spatial Data Infrastructure for Integrated Coastal and Marine Planning in Zanzibar
Leader and partners: Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE) with UTU Geography
Funding: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland / ICI project with the Government of Zanizbar

Changing Land Use and Forest Management Practices and Multidimensional Adaptation Strategies in Zanzibar, Tanzania (2010 - 2013)

Leader: UTU Geography
Funding: Academy of Finland (Development Research)

North-South-South (NSS) staff and student exchange networks coordinated by Åbo Akademi and UTU (2008 - 2015)

Leader: UTU Geography
Funding: NSS / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Rural Settlement Development, Land Ownership and Food Security since Ujamaa era in Eastern Tanzania (2008 - 2010)