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Value of Collaboration: A Case of UiB-Mak Frame Agreement Prof. Edward K. Kirumira

Value of Collaboration: A Case of UiB-Mak Frame Agreement Prof. Edward K. Kirumira Coordinator Mak-UiB Collaboration & Principal CHUSS Makerere University November 29, 2013. The Place of African Universities.

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Value of Collaboration: A Case of UiB-Mak Frame Agreement Prof. Edward K. Kirumira

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  1. Value of Collaboration: A Case of UiB-Mak Frame Agreement Prof. Edward K. Kirumira Coordinator Mak-UiB Collaboration & Principal CHUSS Makerere University November 29, 2013

  2. The Place of African Universities • “today, more than ever, the future of Africa is dependent on the future of African universities. And the future of Africa’s universities depends on successful cooperation in the increasingly competitive and global arena of research and higher education” (Svendsen, 2005).

  3. Teaching and learning in African Higher Education Institutions • universities’ contract with national development and international cooperation • universities as centers of excellence • nationalism and internationalization of universities • the public sector approach • the equivalence of the future of Africa’s universities to the future of the continent

  4. Iberian peninsula: 597 000 km2 The Sudan: 2 500 000 km2 AfricaA reminder • 57 nations • Mediterranean climate in Tunis and Cape Town • Axis:East-West 7400 kmNorth-South 8000 km (1/5 of Earth’s circumference) • Area: 30 244 000 km220,4% of Earth’s land area 6 % of Earth’s total area • (North-America: 24 300 000 km2)

  5. Background to the UiB/Mak Collaboration • 1988 Prof. EndreLillethun visits Makerere • Application to NUFU for capacity building in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics • 1991-1995 NUFU Project 39/91 “Basic Science for Technological Development in Uganda” (Phase I) • 1997 Professor Livingstone Luboobi project coordinator at Makerere (July) • 1998 Professor Andreas Steigen project coordinator at UiB(May) • Frame Agreement signed (November, 1999) for 15 yrs • Student Exchange Addendum signed 2004

  6. The Frame Agreement Article 1: Areas of co-operation • This agreement shall be considered an element in the strategic work at Mak and UiB by giving priority to collaboration projects between scientists from the two academic institutions. • There shall be mutual information on ongoing and new international activities, and scientists may be invited to participate in ongoing and future research projects if funding can be provided.

  7. Other Articles • Article 2: Research and teaching • Article 3: Exchange of staff • Article 4: Exchange of graduate students • Article 5: Funding and finance • Article 6: Annex (on course of action) • Article 7: Management and administration of the collaboration • Article 8: Disputes, time frame, termination, and ratification

  8. Some Products • More than 100 PhDs and MPhil in varied trained • NUFU projects - Six running projects in Phase 4 (2007-2011) • NUCOOP supported Library project UiB/Mak/Juba • 2 NRC projects – Nature, Water & Society; Matrix • EnPe-NORAD Geoscience/Petroleum Master Program • Articles and books • Capacity for grant making • FINIS and HURIS Best Practices training

  9. What Has Made it Work (1) • Medium to long-term institutional commitment including collaboration offices both ways • Multi-Departmental and multi-disciplinary research with diversified funding source • Joint supervision of Masters/Ph.D. students esp. under the NUFU projects and now with Norhed • Spreading the collaboration to include administration, finance, and libraries divisions

  10. Example of Finance and Admin • Best Practices sharing • Practical Training in Financial Management and in Human Resources systems development • Hands-on Implementation of Financial Systems: • Workshops/Seminars • Staff Visits both ways • Exchange of Information

  11. What Has Made It Work (2) • Signing of an Addendum of University of Bergen-Makerere University agreement on student exchange on November 12th 2004 • 4-yearly evaluation and re-commitment workshops within a long-term Frame of collaboration • Reaching out to regional Institutions (Juba, National Univ. of Rwanda, Dar es Salaam) – Library and Technicians Training for Juba

  12. Collaboration Progression

  13. Current Coordination Team:Thorkild Tylleskär, Thelma Ingeborg Kraft, Kristin Svartveit and Edward K. Kirumira at Bergen Nov 2013

  14. Makerere UniversityWelcomes Uppsala University Delegation

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