About
The VLIR-UOS IUC (Flemish Interuniversity Council - Institutional University Cooperation) is a program of VLIR-UOS (Flemish Interuniversity Council - University Development Cooperation) to promote collaboration between a partner institutions in the South (NM-AIST) with the following Flemish universities: University of Brussels (VUB), University of Antwerp (UA), University of Hasselt (UHasselt), University of Leuven (KU Leuven).
The VLIR-UOS IUC – NM-AIST Partner Program (PP) runs from 2013 to 2024 under the coordination of KU Leuven, Belgium. The IUC-programme has two phases: a first phase of 6 years and a second phase of 4 years followed by 2 years of closing while this second phase is scheduled 2019-2022 and commenced on 1St January 2019. The objectives of this IUC are institutional capacity building, enabling the university to fulfill its role in the society in terms of education, research and strengthening the university-industry linkages and technology transfer.
VLIR-UOS PROJECTS
PROGRAMME TITLE: Sustainable management of natural resources to the benefits of the local communities of Northern Tanzania.
Objective 1: The training and research capacity of NM-AIST in areas of sustainable management of natural resources to improve food security, safe water and ecosystem services increased considerably, consolidating the position of NM-AIST as a research institute.
Objective 2: The capacity of NM-AIST to collect and share big data and valorize research results for industries and agriculture to the benefit of the people of northern Tanzania has increased considerably.
PROGRAMME COORDINATION LEVEL
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IUC partner university: |
The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) |
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University of the Flemish coordinator: |
KU Leuven |
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COORDINATION |
FLEMISH |
LOCAL |
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Academic |
Luc Brendonck (KU Leuven) |
Karoli N. Njau (NM-AIST) |
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Programme Support (ICOS, PM) |
Piet Wostyn (KU Leuven) |
Joyce Rugakingila (NM-AIST) |
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PROJECT LEVEL |
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PROJECT |
FLEMISH PROJECT LEADER |
LOCAL PROJECT LEADER |
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PROJECT No 1 : “Sustainable banana farming systems” |
Rony Swennen (KU Leuven) |
Kelvin Mtei - School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering (LiSBE) |
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PROJECT No 2 : “Water sanitation” |
Bart Van der Bruggen (KU Leuven) |
Revocatus Machunda-School of Materials Energy Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES) |
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PROJECT No 3 : “Applied aquatic Ecology” |
Bram Vanschoenwinkel (VUB) |
Linus Munishi- School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering (LiSBE) |
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PROJECT No 4 : “Institutional strengthening” |
Egbert De Smet (UAntwerpen) |
Kisangiri Michael - School of Computational and Communication Science and Engineering (CoCSE) |
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PROJECT No 5 : “Technology park” |
Elke Piessens (U Hasselt) |
Liliane Pasape- School of Business Studies and Humanities (BuSH) |
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