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ABC BlendED

About ABC BlendEd

African BlendEd Course: Novel pedagogies boosting employability and socio-economic prosperity

About ABC BlendEd

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The ABC BlendEd project unites eleven European and African partners.

ABC BlendEd aims at Developing curricular activities involving students from different countries and disciplines, collaborating as a team to complete projects that generate relevant outputs to the local communities, improves students’ enthusiasm as well as core competences for the labour market such as teamwork, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and communication skills.

The European universities in the partnership created and keep developing one such course unit since 2008 (BlendEd). The purpose of the ABC BlendEd project is to empower African universities in the area of Agriculture to setup and run such courses and to escalate the model to other areas in Africa.

In three years, we expect to have an effective BlendEd course running and generating relevant outputs in the field of agriculture, 10 examples of sound results produced by the course and transferred to the local communities, an active Community of Practice developing the BlendEd paradigm in Africa.

Objectives

Foster student employability and add value to local communities by designing and deploying a tailored BlendEd course for African agriculture.

Encourage adoption of BlendEd courses among students, teachers, and companies through content, infrastructure, and training development.

Promote widespread adoption in Africa via a Community of Practice empowering local stakeholders.

Our Mission

To foster cross-border collaboration among students, transcending disciplines and nations, and create impactful projects for local communities.

Our Vision

To enhance soft skills, global perspectives, and networks, preparing students for the challenges of today’s job market.

Our Motto

"Learning by Doing, Growing by Serving"

Participating Institutions

Serial No. Institution Name Country
P1 Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP) Portugal
P2 University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) Nigeria
P3 Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUT) Nigeria
P4 Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) Mozambique
P5 Zambeze University (ZU) Mozambique
P6 Makerere University (MAK) Uganda
P7 Soroti University (SUN) Uganda
P8 Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Uganda
P9 Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) Greece
P10 University of Siegen (USIEGEN) Germany
P11 Odisee (ODISEE) Belgium