EACEA has recognized MUBS for its engagement in the Capacity Building in Higher Education

Prof. Moses Muhwezi, MUBS Staff together with a delegation from the European Education and Culture Executive Agency

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has recognized MUBS for its engagement in the Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) Action under the Erasmus+ programme. EACEA has specifically acknowledged MUBS’ contribution towards the implementation of the CBHE project ICT-4MRPQ.

The ICT-4MRPQ project will strengthen quality and relevance of masters’ students research at Uganda’s HEIs through improved regulative / policy mandate of Uganda’s National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) and integration of ICT usage into managing the students’ research journey. That is, student enrollment into the research project, research idea generation, supervisor allocation, supervision records management, up to post assessment / viva-voce. Additionally, the project emphasizes a need for Green Deal (that is moving towards zero carbon and environmental responsibility).

In this context, the project will contribute to this by using ICT /technology (E-Supervision, Mobile App., and Virtual meetings to reduce carbon dioxide from physical transport movements) to close master’s research quality gaps, which include: (i) student-supervisor interaction records management, (ii) redundancies in supervisor-student skills transfer, (iii) research time redundancy, & (iv) transparency in viva-voce conduct. Of specific interest, the project will stimulate & guide masters’ research engagements in neglected yet relevant to Uganda’s – Green Deal & National development priorities which are less researched.

Examples of neglected areas include innovations into green transition, climate change and sustainable energy, circular economy, among others. Benchmarking and utilization of our European counterparts potentially helps in addressing this. Strengthening Capacity for ICT Usage and Policy Reforms for Relevant and Quality Masters Research Process Management in Uganda’s HEI’s (ICT-4MRPQ) January 2023 – June 2026 funded by Euros 1,000,000.