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Utdanningssamarbeid for bærekraftig
vannforvaltning
Tore Sætersdal
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Verdens vanndag 2015
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Challenge: Packed universities – who have time to do
research? What about research based education?
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Water and Society (WaSo)
NORHED funding
Project partners:
·In Asia:
o University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
o University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
o Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
o Institute of Technology of Cambodia
· In Africa
o Makerere University, Uganda
o University of Nairobi, Kenya
o University of Juba, South Sudan
o Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
In Norway
o Telemark University College
o Norwegian University of Life Sciences
o University of Bergen
Project period: 2014-2018 (5 years)
Project budget: 36 million NOK (approx. 6 million USD), 100% grant from Norway
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WaSo concept
Cross-disciplinary approach to
Institutional capacity building
• WaSo Asia – Africa
collaborating with
Local organizations on
water and River and Lake
basin management
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WaSo project meeting
Dhaka 2014 – dialogue
with external partners
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The project is designed along three important axis of
capacity strengthening in universities:
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• Ambitions of the project
• Build institutional capacity to supervise,
teach and do research at all partner
institutions by improving the relevant
post graduate programmes
• Research through Masters/PhD research:
improvement of supervision quality and
access to modern supervision
techniques enabling stronger
internationalisation
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Potential for conflict resolution?
• The role of the
university?
• Researchers as
Part of the negotiation
team
Dialogue through
Cross-disciplinary and
multi-national research
programmes
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Avdeling / enhet
Grand Ethiopian
Renaissance Dam
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Tusen takk!
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