Building Stronger Universities III

“Significant social problems in northern Uganda are addressed through uptake of collaborative research that generates knowledge relevant for community transformation, as well as research-based teaching and learning (PBL and e-learning) that prepares graduates for working with such problems by 2021. BSUIII will continue to strengthen the research and teaching infrastructure at Gulu University in order to better realise its vision of ‘community transformation’. It will emphasise close links between teaching and community outreach through collaborative action research. At both system and individual levels, efforts will be concentrated in two thematic areas. In the area of ‘Transforming education’, teaching and research will focus on the introduction of new pedagogical approaches (problem-based learning and ICT) at the university itself and in other educational and training institutions. The area of ‘Rights, resources and gender in post-war development’ will be concerned with access to resources, conflict prevention and management, and gender issues in post-conflict development. The Danish partners include researchers from four Danish Universities: University of Copenhagen; University of Southern Denmark; Roskilde University; and Aalborg University.”