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EU-ZW - Digital Challenge-Driven Energy Learning Collaboration Between EU and Zimbabwe

1011264062023Capacity Building in higher educationongoing
Countries: ZW|SE|ES · Grant: €391,198

Project summary

Five HEIs in Zimbabwe will collaborate with two HEIs, and one SME, in EU. All Zimbabwe HEIs are newcomers in the sense that they have previously not participated in any “Erasmus+ CBHE” projects. The project will re-use the framework and learning material developed from three earlier CBHE projects while developing/implementing new courses and programs adapted for local conditions. These courses will enhance the modernization process of the Zimbabwe HEIs by introducing a challenge-driven student-centered flipped classroom approach in which innovation and entrepreneurship takes a predominant role. A set of globally remotely accessible laboratory exercises will be introduced to Zimbabwe teachers and students. The learning material is in digital format and can be read also in remote areas, both as part of a formal academic study program and as stand-alone modules for individual learning journeys. A large emphasize will be upon “train-the-trainers” towards collaboration and re-use of existing material from earlier CBHE-projects. The Zimbabwe educators will adapt existing material towards the local conditions, gain experience with the collaboration and become involved in larger, global collaborations. As output the Zimbabwe HEIs will have clearly demonstrated, in a measurable/scalable way, that it is possible to collaborate on educational material in the energy sector in a global perspective, to co-create and re-use material from other colleagues, improve the material, adapt it to local conditions and create an international collaboration in which students, teachers, societal actors commonly attack some of the local and global challenges humanity stands in front of. A minimum of 25 teachers and 10 administrators will be trained towards using the new concept. A set of new & updated courses, to be used in both academic and professional environments will be developed by the trained teachers. These courses will as such train a significant number of students in the future.

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