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Celebrating the Open Access Week 2021

Open Science represents a new approach to the scientific process based on cooperative work and new ways of diffusing knowledge by using digital technologies and new collaborative tools. Open Science is an umbrella term that involves various attempts to remove the barriers for sharing any kind of output, resources, methods or tools, at any stage […]

Celebrating the Open Access Week – Joint development of MiniMoocs with our Tanzanian partners

Training on mobile data collection and QGIS for data visualization and mapping to Sokoine University students

Blog by Ernest Mauya and Msilikale Msilanga The increasing availability of Geospatial technologies and open data is making a global impact on Natural Resources Management and Conservation. With local talents, […]

Finnish organization’s planning workshop – the importance of contact meetings to improve collaboration and develop common ways of working

The GeoICT4e project team has almost 60 experts from Finland and Tanzania – of which around twenty experts are from Finland. Tanzanian experts have been able to organize some local meetings between their own teams, and to collaborate with each other. Small teams of Finnish experts has been able to visit Tanzania two times. Otherwise, […]

GeoICT4e experts delve into local e-learning and challenge -based learning solutions in Tanzania

During the end of August and first days of September 2021, the GeoICT4e -project experts were finally able to meet face-to-face in Tanzania and dwell on better to local e-learning and challenge-based learning solutions. GeoICT4e experts Niina Käyhkö, Antero Järvi and Msilikale Msilanga from the University of Turku, and Eeva Timonen Kallio and Jari Hietaranta […]

Industrial training program for the provision of E-learning skills and practical experiences to university students.

Written by Msilikale Msilanga Group photo of University students, university staff, and OMDTZ team. This Month; July 2021, the Resilience Academy is partnering with OMDTZ, The World Bank and other partners to engage university students from UDSM, ARU, SUA and SUZA to participate in the industrial training program. Industrial Training is aimed to equip university […]

DigiCampus Training for GeoICT4e and Resilience Academy experts

On 8th and 9th June 2021, GeoICT4e and Resilience Academy in collaboration arranged a training to University experts from UDSM, ARU, SUA, SUZA, MoCU, UTU, NOVIA, and TURKU UAS to provide skills on developing e-learning content utilizing Digicampus. The training was targeted to all experts responsible for producing the e-learning materials in the GeoICT4e and […]

Resilience Academy and GeoICT4e training to university experts on e-learning using Digicampus

Skills development On 8th and 9th June 2021, Resilience Academy in collaboration with GeoICT4e coordinated a training to University experts from UDSM, ARU, SUA, SUZA, MoCU, UTU, NOVIA, and TURKU MK to provide skills on e-learning using digicampus. The training was derived from the experiences that Resilience Academy had in preparing the e-learning materials to develop online skills as part of the broader objective to provide skills to University staff […]

Training of the Trainers to University Experts

Skills development On 13th April 2021, more than 20 experts from four Tanzania universities; 1. Universities of Dar es Salaam, 2. Ardhi University, 3. Sokoine University of Agriculture, and 4. State University of Zanzibar attended training of the trainers for Flood mapping, modeling, and predictions. The training was provided by the Resilience Academy team as part of their training […]

MiniMOOCs and other E-learning mateials as a resource to Challenge Campaigns

Currently the GeoICT4e experts are designing miniMOOCs related to knowledge and handling of digital geospatial data, sustainable development, climate change, innovations, and entrepreneurship, which are also the themes included in our pedagogical approach, Multicompetence Learning, which will be developed during the project. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are open to everyone, but work also as […]

Kick-off to Multicompetence Learning and GeoICT4e Ways to Work

A two-days’ event for GeoICT4e experts GeoICT4e project is implemented by eight universities from Finland and Tanzania. Altogether, we comprise a team of 51 experts, who have different knowledge, skills, experience, networks and personalities. Getting to know and knowing what and whom to ask is a key for finding the synergies and exploring innovations, getting […]

Resilience academy Data Visualisation Challenge 2020

Group photos for participants in a data visualisation challenge  Every year, Resilience Academy is preparing a data visualization challenge to University students in order to give an opportunity to young university students from four Tanzanian universities (4) to learn geospatial data visualization tools and techniques and in practice while delivering visualization of selected, real-world visualization […]