Date: 20.11.2014, 17:00 – 18:30 h
Where: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, HS 1
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Schmitz, University of Bonn / Rudolf Heinrichs-Drinhaus, Université Evangélique en Afrique (Bukavu, Congo)
Transnational partnership for education will expand during the next years and give a boost to sustainable development in the participating regions. This kind of cooperation is not limited to international organisations like UN, World Bank and UNESCO or to official state-to-state relations. Transnational partnership also evolves very much on the bilateral or multilateral level between persons and institutions.
A concrete example of an upcoming partnership with a young university in Africa will be presented which aims at establishing a compulsory practical course in biochemistry for medical students in their 2nd preclinical year. The realisation of this project necessitated various issues to be considered: the design of experiments suitable to provide the African students with useful information; the procurement of lab equipment and reagents; training of assistants, and finally supervising the students together with the assistants. The successful implementation of this project depended also quite essentially on the impressive readiness of the African partner to tackle the often unforeseen, almost daily recurring technical and organisational problems.
Organised by: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)
Source: Information by ARTS/University of Bonn from 19.11.2014Date: 20.11.2014, 17:00 – 18:30 h
Where: Institut für Geodäsie und Geoinformation, Nussallee 1, HS 1
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Schmitz, University of Bonn / Rudolf Heinrichs-Drinhaus, Université Evangélique en Afrique (Bukavu, Congo)
Transnational partnership for education will expand during the next years and give a boost to sustainable development in the participating regions. This kind of cooperation is not limited to international organisations like UN, World Bank and UNESCO or to official state-to-state relations. Transnational partnership also evolves very much on the bilateral or multilateral level between persons and institutions.
A concrete example of an upcoming partnership with a young university in Africa will be presented which aims at establishing a compulsory practical course in biochemistry for medical students in their 2nd preclinical year. The realisation of this project necessitated various issues to be considered: the design of experiments suitable to provide the African students with useful information; the procurement of lab equipment and reagents; training of assistants, and finally supervising the students together with the assistants. The successful implementation of this project depended also quite essentially on the impressive readiness of the African partner to tackle the often unforeseen, almost daily recurring technical and organisational problems.
Organised by: ARTS (Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics)
Source: Information by ARTS/University of Bonn from 19.11.2014