Universities Launch Global Coalition to Support Refugee Education at Scale 16 universities from across the globe come together to improve and increase access to higher education for refugees and their communities. Oslo, 12 September: In response to the urgent need for improved higher education programs and support services for refugees and their communities, several leading […]
A panel of external evaluators from the EfD Global Hub at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has consented to recommend the re-accreditation of the EfD-Mak Center Uganda for another five years. Edwin Muchapondwa from the South African EfD centre at the University of Cape town, Precious Zikhali from Nairobi Kenya and Ted Horbulyk from Canada […]
By Agnes Namaganda The Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health in the US has awarded Dr Anthony Batte with a 500,000 USD grant. This career development award for emerging global leaders is called a K43 NIH award. Dr. Batte is a young prolific researcher as well as a Paediatric Nephrologist, and a […]
Announcement Dear researchers, health workers, policy makers, students and members of the Makerere University as well as the public/civil society, On behalf of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences, I take this opportunity to invite and welcome you to the 16th Joint Annual Scientific Health (JASH) Conference 2022, scheduled to take place for 3 […]
By Jacinta Nakaye CoVAB’s science, research, and innovations shared facility, the Centre for Biosecurity and Global Health (CEBIGH) hosted a team from Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation together with a distinguished Professor, John B. Kaneene from Michigan State University on 10th May 2022 for an evaluation activity of its PRESIDE Projects. During a meeting […]
Seedstars World has joined forces with Lima Expresa, a VINCI company and with ProInnóvate Perú to organize a Global Smart Cities Challenge. The goal is to find tech companies able to solve one (or more) of the following challenges: Accident and Incident Detection and Prevention: How to reduce incident & accident detection time? Smart Roads: […]
The three-day Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) cross-country National Policy Review and Training Workshop was on 23rd November 2021 opened at the Speke Resort Hotel Munyonyo in Uganda attracting over forty members of academia and policy makers from the Swedish Environment for Development (EfD) Global hub and the East African countries including Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania […]
A delegation of Swedish environmental economists on 22nd November 2021, visited Makerere University to discuss collaborative academic and research initiatives in environment and sustainable development. The delegation was led by the Director EfD Global Network Assoc. Prof. Gunnar Kohlin from the University of Gothenburg. The team paid a courtesy call on the office of the […]