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GeoICT4e project gets started
GeoICT4e -Social innovations in Geo-ICT education at Tanzanian Higher Education Instutions for improved employability project has got funding of 1 923 365 euros from HEI ICI programme for the time period of 4 years, starting from 1 September 2020 and continuing to 31 August 2024. The main outcome of ‘GeoICT4e’ is that the Tanzanian universities […]
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Visualisation Challenge 2020 is here!
Resilience Academy is happy to announce that the Visualisation Challenge 2020 has officially been launched. In the Visualisation Challenge 2020, groups of University students compete to create a winning visualisation for geospatial data sets of given topics. A webinar was held on 10th of July where the challenge, as well as the topics of this […]
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Keeping in touch via CRD Online Training sessions!
Background: A lot is happening within the Resilience Academy. Among the latest developments, data quality standards of the Tanzania Urban Resilience Program (TURP) and the Climate Risk Database (CRD) and protocols related, has been identified and created. To meet the standards, new activities are implemented to the whole life cycle of produce datasets that are […]
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Flood risk mapping in Dar es Salaam: The case of Tandale, Dar es Salaam
Introduction Being a bachelor student from The University of Turku, doing a thesis is part of my studies. My name is Ohto, I am a student from The University of Turku. My interests have always been working on the Tanzania project in order to contribute to the communities in Tanzania. This is why I decided […]
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Research Pilot Survey – Dar es Salaam
A key part of resilience is understanding how individuals, households, and communities will respond to a changing climate. In the Msimbazi Valley of Dar es Salaam, many people have become […]
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Application for GeoICT4e successfully submitted
While the GeoICT project is gradually ending, we have submitted a new HEI-ICI proposal “GeoICT4e” – e referring to employment – for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Our new project initiative builds on the success of the previous two HEI ICl-projects between Tanzanian universities and University of Turku, but this time, we are more geared […]
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150 University Student have Attended Industrial Training
150 University studends have attended the industrial training coordinated by Resilience Academy team. These student are coming from the University partners of Resilience Academy which are University of Dar es Salaam, The State University of Zanzibar as well as the Ardhi University. 150 students are divided in distribution from each University 50 students each. The […]
Read more →Launch of the Finland-Africa Platform for Sustainable Development Goal 9 (Innovation)
The Launch of the Finland-Africa Platform for Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG9) (Innovation) was organized at the University of Turku between 26th and 27th of August 2019. The collaboration and the MoU (Memorandum of understanding) agreement between university of Turku and the United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA) is strengthening the role of Finland […]
Read more →Geo-ICT pilot courses running in Tanzania
The Tanzanian partner universities have reviewed and developed several curricula and courses as part of the Geo-ICT project. We aim to collect feedback from the students of each partner university regarding at least one course during 2019, to be able to measure the success of the curriculum development work done. At one of the partner […]
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UTU Tanzania team and four Tanzanian universities developing geospatial expertise to control risks posed by floods and climate change.
Students during their industrial training doing field work by collecting coordinate of the most flooded areas in Dar es Salaam using mobile phones (photo by Chris Morgen). In the Resilience Academy project (web page under construction) UTU Tanzania Team together with four Tanzanian universities is tackling the challenges faced by cities in Tanzania by developing […]
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Geo-ICT Entrepreneurship and Innovation workshop week in Dar es Salaam
Author: Emma Nkonoki / Geo-ICT team An inspiring workshop week related to entrepreneurship and innovation was held as a collaborative effort of the Geo-ICT team in March 2019 in Dar es Salaam. The aim of the workshop week was to foster a close working connection and partnership between higher education institutions and the innovation ecosystem. […]
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Trainings held so far
In the Geo-ICT project, the staff of partnering universities has been trained in the following topics: Introduction to geoinformatics (November 2017) Pedagogy for teaching staff (March 2018) Remote sensing with open source tools (March 2018) Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Education (October 2018) Pedagogy, Research skills, GIS, remote sensing (several short courses, September-November 2018) Innovation lead education […]
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