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Travel report 2015 Mozambique – Niassa, Nampula, Sofala, Manica, Maputo

Lots of field experiences for practical first hand information! Thank you all for receiving us! Please see report here: Travel report 2015 Vagalhão Project teaser: HEI ICI Vagalhão – teaser 2015 Posted by Mikko

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Eduardo Mondlane students’ Finland visit highlights

Students of Eduardo Mondlane University from Maputo did their two-month intensive training and thesis literature work at Aalto University in the end of 2014. Time was well spent on learning on each thesis in detail and sharing the information. Lectures, … Continue reading

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Visit to Finland by Mozambican students and Professor Andrade Egas – October-December 2014

Friday 17th October will begin an interesting phase in the Sol Nascente project! In Parallel with Vagalhão; Sol Nascente brings students mobility into the process and the project staff welcomes seven students from the Wood Technology Master’s program at Universidade … Continue reading

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Experiences from excursions and related mobility program Sol Nascente planning from Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique

Vagalhão (capacity building) and Sol Nascente (student mobility) projects had an exciting time in September. Alongside the project we presented our first joint paper at the 5th African Conference on Environment and Water Resources Management in Gaborone, Botswana. The conference … Continue reading

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Excursions to South Africa and Maputo workshop

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 … Continue reading

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UEM staff in Finland, summary of a great week and its visits!

Professor Andrade Egas and lecturer Natasha Ribeiro arrived in Finland on Monday 5th of May. Our week had roughly the following agenda: May 6th, (TUE) Introduction of the Wood Technology laboratory at Aalto and department library. Host: Professor Mark Hughes http://puu.aalto.fi/en/ … Continue reading

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Visit to Finland by Professor Andrade Egas and Lecturer Natasha Ribeiro from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

Aalto Vagalhão staff are happy to welcome our colleagues from UEM Maputo, Mozambique for a combined university and field trip during week 19. Along with project meetings, module planning and related study affairs the week will include visits to Koskisen … Continue reading

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Recent and upcoming activities

Vagalhão team was represented at the CleanTech Summit in Helsinki on February 25th 2014. The seminar and networking event gathered more than 600 people specializing on sustainable technologies. www.cleantechsummit.fi Among the topics raised into discussion were development cooperation and cleantech … Continue reading

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Course development in progress, new travel plans and official 2013 travel report published

Vagalhão team completed the first set of lecture preparation in December 2013 with full scale lecture material. The course book is also being translated into English and finishing touches done so we expect to have the book ready for distribution … Continue reading

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Activities and events

Vagalhão staff have been active in networking participating in various events and meetings in Finland. Our coordinator Roope participated the following events from which we received valuable information: Knowing Development – Developing Knowledge? 2nd Nordic Conference on Development Research arranged … Continue reading

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