Applied Curricula in Technology for East Africa Erasmus Project

Project Title

Applied Curricula in Technology for East Africa

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

STEM-education is very relevant for East-African countries, where producing added value is a way of improving life standard in these developing countries. Moreover there is a high demand for technicians from investors, NGOs and the emerging mid-class in Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania, supported by legislative attempts to increase local employment. To cope with this demand, there is a need for skilled people, trained in relevant engineering trades, but they are hard to find, due to the strong theoretical approach in universities instead of practice-oriented competence-based teaching. This is directly related to the lack of modern curricula in engineering and industry-grade equipment. The ACTEA project aims to fulfil the specific needs in engineering, provide better skills matching, deliver course material in 2 specializations, Computer Aided Manufacturing Technology and Electrical Engineering & Automation and, establish technologic laboratories, with virtual and remote accessibility, establish a learning tools, give academic staff additional training on technology and in developing technologic course material according to EU standards. The results will be disseminated and exploited with train-the-trainer sessions, Master Classes and with training of a pilot group of internal and external stakeholders. Good practices and results will be made public through e-resources, radio and local media. The Business Integration Bureau favors cooperation with local business, for trainings, employing students or as client for end-products. All is done according to a well-defined quality assurance scheme. The impact on the short term is increased technologic and pedagogic knowledge, increased operational capacity, increase in engineering students, and a better cooperation with local industry. On the long term, the project aims at an increase in employability, in added value produced locally, sustained life-ling-learning and long-term high-quality knowledge gain in technology.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 998345 Eur

Project Coordinator

ARTESIS PLANTIJN HOGESCHOOL ANTWERPEN & Country: BE

Project Partners

• FACHHOCHSCHULE DORTMUND
• TANZANIA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NETWORK(TERNET)
• MZUMBE UNIVERSITY
• MEKELLE UNIVERSITY
• ARDHI UNIVERSITY
• THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKFOR UGANDA
• MUNI UNIVERSITY