Vagalhão project is continuing with networking and feedback from the module. Alongside other research project coordinator Roope Husgafvel and lecturer Mikko Martikka will attend the 5th IASTED African Conference on Environment and Water Resource Management ~AfricaEWRM 2014~ held on September 1 – 3, 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana.
Tour will continue with Vagalhão activity on visits to industry at SAPPI (South African Pulp and Paper Industries) research centre in Pretoria as well as Ngodwana paper mill and forestry locations in Nelspruit region of the Mpumalanga province. Group attending the excursion will include the entire Vagalhão team from both universities, students doing the module as well as several members of UEM research staff.
After the South African stretch the group will return to Maputo for a workshop in planning of the master’s thesis projects for the module students. Workshop has raised a lot of interest and will get great attendance from companies representatives, related interest groups and academia.
Second part of the workshop will be a feedback session regarding the module and the excursions. Ideas from the day will be utilized in the following phase on team’s Sol Nascente project in which the UEM students will visit Aalto University in Finland to do literature study for their theses and learn practical skills in wood technology and water quality determinations.
We look very much forward to all this forthcoming activity!
