Author Archives: Roope
New article
Our article “Development of a study module on and pedagogical approaches to industrial environmental engineering and sustainability in Mozambique” has been published by the International Journal of Higher Education (Vol. 6, No. 2, 2017): http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/ijhe/issue/view/533 Posted by Roope
Niina Torikka completed her exchange (Faculdade de agronomia e engenharia florestal) and her experiences from this visit encourage us all to keep on working together and generating new ideas. For example, she did a report on illegal logging in Mozambique … Continue reading
The XIV World Forestry Congress
Team Vagalhão joined the WFC2015 – Forests and people: investing in a sustainable future: http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/world-forestry-congress/en/ http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/world-forestry-congress/outcome/en/ Interesting themes and topics included, for example, investment in forest education, research and capacity-building, product innovations and sustainable trade, sustainable forest management, capacity-building for good forest governance … Continue reading
Aalto student mobility
Ms. Niina Torikka started her 3 months study period in Mozambique in September. She takes part in multiple courses at UEM (Maputo) and also field work in the Machipanda area. This mobility takes place within the Sol Nascente NSS-project. Posted … Continue reading
Climate-Smart Agriculture 2015 Global Science Conference
Team Vagalhão participated in the Climate-Smart Agriculture 2015 Global Science Conference, March 16-18.2015, Montpellier, France. Webpage: http://csa2015.cirad.fr/ Interesting future R&D activities include, for example, development of metrics for CSA with special emphasis on field level verification. Posted by Roope
“Sol Nascente” UEM-Aalto Sustainability and Clean Technologies Network – UEM student exchange report
NSS UEM student exchange report Posted by Roope
Travel report – Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique
Our latest travel report: Travel report III 2014 Vagalhao – Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique Posted by Roope
Joint eI4Africa / iMENTORS Conference – “e-Infrastructures for Africa: Gateways to the Future”
Team Vagalhão participated in networking in this event: Joint eI4Africa / iMENTORS Conference “e-Infrastructures for Africa: Gateways to the Future” Oct. 29, 2014 – Hotel Bloom, Brussels A Conference jointly organised by the eI4Africa and iMENTORS EU/FP7 projects under the aegis of … Continue reading
XXIV IUFRO World Congress
Team Vagalhão attended the XXIV IUFRO World Congress – Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research with a presentation titled: “Higher education and capacity development for sustainability and clean technologies − experiences from Mozambique”, Oct 5-11, Salt Lake City, Utah, … Continue reading
Travel report – May & June 2014
Our joint module “Industrial Environmental Engineering” is running at the UEM campus and our latest travel report is here: Travel report 2014_Vagalhao Posted by Roope