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    Project Name: Towards Enhancing Sustainable and Innovative Environmental Change Solutions (TESIECS)

    Funder: EU Intra Africa Mobility Scholarship Scheme

    Project Coordinator: Prof. Naidoo,  Humanities

    Project Overview: The project, ‘Towards Enhancing Sustainable and Innovative Environmental Change Solutions’ (TESIECS) is a Southern-African-focused initiative encompassing a number of highly ranked institutions. The collaborating institutions are the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Western Cape, the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Botswana, the Namibian University of Science & Technology and Vrije University as the EU technical partner.

    Project Name: MSc in Energy Poverty Alleviation Technologies (FAIR)

    Funder: Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education

    Project Coordinator: Prof Nwulu, FEBE

    Project Overview: The FAIR project aims to design, develop and evaluate a Masters Course in the field of Energy Poverty Alleviation Technologies in South Africa. It will also develop innovative learning material that will offer students a tailored perspective, participating universities the chance to exchange best practises, modernize, renew and align their curricula towards innovative skills and competencies necessary to effectively address the urgent societal need of energy poverty.

    Project Name: MSc in Energy Poverty Alleviation Technologies (PoMiSA)

    Funder: Erasmus + Capacity Building in Higher Education

    Project Coordinator: Prof Menon

    Project Overview: This capacity building in higher education (CBHE) project, a collaboration between Southern African and European universities and higher education councils, will systematically develop principles and policies for the recognition, quality assurance and regulation of microcredentials in Southern African countries. The global take-up of microcredentials has been slow and uneven, and while Southern African policymakers, including regional and national higher education qualifications and quality assurance councils, appreciate their potential to promote access, skills development and learner and worker mobility, they are concerned about issues of articulation, alignment, quality, equity and social justice.

    Project Name: Promotion of Technology-Enhanced Learning and Digital Education in South African University and TVET Colleges (ProTelde)

    Funder: Erasmus + Capacity Building in Higher Education

    Project Coordinator: Prof Moloi and Ms Khoza, JBS

    Project Overview: The project is addressed to South African HEIs and TVET lecturers of business and economics subjects. The project aims to provide the target groups with basics skills to exploit digital solutions for teaching. Furthermore, the project aims to provide the target groups of the skills and competences to identify and select existing open digital sources that can be used for teaching business and economics subjects, to make full use of all the potentialities of digital education and technology-enhanced learning (TEL) as an integration or alternative to traditional teaching  and to create their own digital teaching sources in the field of business and economics. The project will also provide South African HEIs and TVET lecturers with a Repository of validated TEL and digital Teaching Sources in the field of business and economics.

    Project Name: A Wood-to-Wood Cascade Upcycling Valorisation Approach (W2W)

    Funder: Horizon Europe Twin Transition

    Project Coordinator: Prof Musonda, FEBE

    Project Overview: The W2W project will produce and validate a comprehensive framework for multi-dimensional cascade valorisation of wood from C&D and furniture waste, consisting of four core components. W2W will demonstrate efficient and sustainable value chains in 3 Use Cases for the production of: wood without pollutants; biocomposite building  materials; biopolymers; polyols; chemical detergents; and the recovery of nutrients, through the use of technologies and tools that allow the selection of optimal cascade paths for further uses of wood products and their material.

    Project Name: Una Europa – Virtual Exchanges for Sustainability (UnaVex)

    Funder: Erasmus + Virtual Exchanges

    Project Coordinator: Dr Moodley, Science

    Project Overview: The Una Europa Virtual Exchange in Higher Education (UnaVEx) project aims to facilitate the co-creation and implementation of a virtual exchange framework for sustainability education across a partnership of leading European and African higher education institutions. The UnaVEx project consortium is composed of three Una Europa partner universities, the University of Helsinki, the University of Bologna, KU Leuven, and three African partner universities, the University of Kinshasa, the University of Nairobi, and the University of Johannesburg.

    Project Name: Enhancement of Digital and Transversal Skills through Virtual Exchanges (DIGI-UP)

    Funder: Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education

    Project Coordinator: Prof. Nwulu, FEBE

    Project Overview: DigiUp is a 36-months Virtual Exchange project which aims to connect higher education students, academic staff and young people from Europe and Sub-Saharan countries through well-established virtual activities for development/acquisition/application of both digital and soft skills so as to increase career opportunities and moving forward in 21st century skills needed among young people.

     

     

     

     

     

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