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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Tanzania’s preparedness for climate challenges is supported by cooperation between the Geo-ICT partners
Photo credits: Ramani Huria, https://www.flickr.com/photos/ramanihuria/ The World Bank has granted funding for the five Geo-ICT partners, University of Turku, Ardhi University, Sokoine University of Agriculture, State University of Zanzibar, and University of Dar es...
Tanzanian young experts’ visit to Finland
During September - November 2018, we had the pleasure to host a group of seven young project experts at the University of Turku (UTU) in Finland, Departments of Geography and Geology, and Future Technologies. The experts came from the project's four Tanzanian partner...
Geo-ICT activities 2017
As the wrap-up of last year's project activities is topical right now, it is time to look back and see what we have achieved during the first year of our Geo-ICT project. Since the beginning of the project, we have organized several workshops and trainings for the...
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As part of the implementation of the #GeoICT4e project (2020-2024), #SUA project team members are developing a number of Massive Open Online Courses (Mooc) within a thematic areas of ICT and Geospatial technologies. @EDUFI_HigherEd #Heiici @SokoineU @UniTurku https://t.co/6DzlUBmOEG Read More
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