Climate Change Induced Disaster Management in Africa Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate Change Induced Disaster Management in 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

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.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999185 Eur

Project Coordinator

LUNDS UNIVERSITET & Country: SE

Project Partners

• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN
• UNIVERSIDADE EDUARDO MONDLANE
• UNIVERSIDADE ZAMBEZE
• ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS DE MOCAMBIQUE
• POLITECNICO DI MILANO
• UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
• UNIVERSIDADE LURIO