The project offers mobility scholarships to African scholars, including students and staff, with the goal of enhancing education skills development and climate change resilience in agricultural knowledge systems across Africa.
Academics at Mountains of the Moon University (MMU) in Fort Portal Tourism City have underscored the importance of partnerships to address challenges posed by climate change and to improve the agriculture sector.
The call was made on Tuesday during a Joint Steering Committee meeting hosted by the university under the Mobility 4 Agricultural International Networks Supporting Thematic Resilience and Enhancing Adaptation and Mitigation (MAINSTREAM) project.
The project offers mobility scholarships
to African scholars, including students and staff, with the goal of enhancing education skills development and climate change resilience in agricultural
knowledge systems across Africa.
MMU is among seven institutions
benefiting the EU-funded project for the next 48 months. The other Institutions
are; Jaramogi Oginga
Odinga University Of Science and Technology (JOOUST, Kenya), Universite De Kara
(Togo), Universite Du Sine Saloum El-Hadj Ibrahima Niass (USSEIN) (Senegal),
University Of The Free State (South Africa), Arsi University, (Ethiopia) and Hochschule
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (HWST, Germany).
The project is worth 1,785,780 Euros.
In his message delivered by the Deputy
Vice-Chancellor in Charge of Academic Affairs, Prof. John Mase Kasenene, the MMU University Vice-Chancellor Professor Pius
Coxwell Achanga, said the MAINSTREAM project strives to influence
a common agenda for addressing education and skills improvement for the
agricultural knowledge systems both at regional and country levels targeting
transformations through tertiary agricultural education community, policy, and
industry actors.
He noted that this is a key partnership
towards solving world productivity by improving productivity, security, and availability where needed, noting that universities are key pillars in influencing
positive change.
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Prof. Edmond Kagambe who chairs the MAINSTREAM project
joint committee and is also the deputy Vice Chancellor in Charge of Finance and
Administration at MMU told URN in an interview that the MAINSTREAM project is a
platform for knowledge sharing to enable
improved productivity and incomes at the farm level.
He noted that institution’s working in the same areas
of interest need to work together so that they can address social challenges
adding that they are in the selection process for the first cohort.
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Prof. Violet Kisakye,
the MAINSTREAM said MMU and partners are trying to demystify the idea agriculture
education by making the graduates are practical as possible by exposing them to
different innovations world over.
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Dr. Dragan Brkovic, Project Coordinator for Centre for
International Affairs at Weihenstephan Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
in Germany said qualifying candidates will have an opportunity to
study-by-doing, enrich their inter-cultural experiences and bring back the experiences
into their communities.
