JOOUST Hosts Local Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-HE Project
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) hosted a total of 12 local research team and University Management Board Members at the Kisumu Learning Centre for the launch of a four-year IMPACT-HE project, funded under the Erasmus + CBHE 2024 Call. The project is implemented by a total of 14 consortia across Europe and Africa with the aim of strengthening management of international cooperation funds, boost impact assessment and align higher education with global priorities such as EU Green Deal, digitalization, and inclusion.
The Vice-Chancellor Prof. Emily Akuno called for development of an online short-course on Impact Assessment and aligning future JOOUST International Scientific Conference with transformative themes such as decolonization. The workshop participants were taken through key deliverables and developed Annual Workplan of the project aligned to JOOUST deliverables.
IMPACT-HE Project is committed to scalable, sustainable models of collaboration that will benefit the universities, communities, and policy landscape across Africa and Europe.
