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85 students and alumni engaged in the 2025 Data Visualization Challenge to develop geovisualization solutions supporting urban water and climate resilience decision-making in Tanga and Mwanza.

By Msilikale Msilanga Young people develop the most robust skills when they engage in hands-on work on real-world problems. Resilience Academy organized another visualization challenge for 2025 as part of ProWA-SASA project, collaborating with partners like GIZ and ProWAS SASA Partners from Mwanza and Tanga cities. This initiative provided university students and recent graduates with […]

Honourable mention for the Resilience Academy working group

Shaping together in Germany – Designing games in the Ruhr area

If you wish to explore the previous parts of this retrospective three-part blog series, you can find the Norway blog post here and the Malta blog post here. Now, let’s enjoy Elmiina’s, Liisi’s, Ronja’s, and Tyyne’s travels and learnings from the third summer school in Germany!   Summer School 3: Bochum, Germany, 24-28 March 2025 […]

Shaping Together in Malta – Exploring sustainability in the small Mediterranean nation

If you wish to explore the first part of this retrospective three-part blog series, you can find the Norway blog post here. Now, let’s enjoy Elmiina’s, Liisi’s, Ronja’s, and Tyyne’s travels and learnings from the second summer school in Malta!   Summer School 2: Gozo & Malta, Malta, 21-25 October 2024 Hello again! It’s Elmiina, […]

Shaping Together in Norway – Learning about geosciences in sunny Tautra and Trondheim

Blog series and project introduction Join us for our retrospective three-part blog series as geography students Elmiina, Liisi, Ronja, and Tyyne travel through Norway, Malta, and Germany shaping innovations in education for sustainable development! This three-part blog series showcases the University of Turku’s (UTU) students’ point-of-view of the Shape2Gether -project summer schools. What have the […]

Enhancing Urban Resilience Through Geospatial Data Management: A Training Initiative by Resilience Academy

By Dr. Zakaria Ngereja, Amedeus Kimaro, Masoud Hamad and Msilikale Msilanga Spatial data management is paramount for decision-makers in urban resilience. In today’s rapidly changing climate, urban areas face mounting challenges from floods, droughts, and extreme weather events that necessitate informed planning and swift response capabilities. Effective spatial data management empowers city officials to visualize […]

Resilience Academy to Train Youth in Flood Mapping Using Mobile Tools

Written by Msilikale Msilanga Resilience Academy is working in partnership with GIZ to empower young university alumni by involving them in flood mapping activities in Tanga. This initiative provides hands-on learning opportunities focused on using mobile phones for data collection. As part of this effort, 16 recent graduates from Ardhi University are participating in the […]

DIDAIhub: Sustainable development

The student is able to comprehend information about sustainable development and has the ability to apply the concepts of sustainable development for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals in all personal and professional activities.

DIDAIhub: Basic research information of climate change

This Mini-MOOC is relevant information for communicating with local and regional planners of civil servants and the general public as well related to any SDG that includes a spatial dimension from global to local; for the sustainable use of land, adaption and mitigation actions for risks like flooding, soil degradation, ecosystem instabilities and conservation of ecosystems […]

DIDAIhub: Field data collection with QField

The objective of this course is to learn the key elements on research and data collection planning. You will be able to evaluate the data collection process and recognize the role of documentation on field data collection. The goal is to learn how to plan and create a comprehensive data collection project on QGIS and […]

DIDAIhub: Satellite image classification using ML in Google Earth Engine

This course introduces students to the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing platform, focusing on accessing and preprocessing Earth Observation (EO) data.

DIDAIhub: Land cover/land use change detection with Google Earth Engine

The goal of this nugget is to introduce you to different methods and techniques for detecting and analysing LCLU changes using EO time-series data in Google Earth Engine (GEE).