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BSU Outreach Strategies

BSU Outreach Strategies . Plenary BSU Networking & Planning Workshop Tuesday August 29 2012 By Anna Temu, (SUA) & Søren Lund, (RU). P articipants. Ambrose Okot – Chair Julius Massaga Wineaster Andreson Flemming Konradsen Arne Anderson Soren Lund Anna Temu - Rapporteur.

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BSU Outreach Strategies

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  1. BSU Outreach Strategies Plenary BSU Networking & Planning Workshop Tuesday August 29 2012 By Anna Temu, (SUA) & Søren Lund, (RU)

  2. Participants • Ambrose Okot – Chair • Julius Massaga • WineasterAndreson • FlemmingKonradsen • Arne Anderson • Soren Lund • Anna Temu - Rapporteur

  3. Peers - multidiscipline University Ivory Tower Peers within discipline Peers: north-south Peers: south - south Traders, Farmers Junior colleges & Schools, Policy makers, Governments, International Organizations, Donors, Development agencies, NGOs, The Industry

  4. Agreements • Universities are institutions for research and research-based education • We become meaning full to the society/communities, donors, tax payers development agents if we reach out to stakeholders with intention of improving livelihoods • There is a need to cooperate to develop an improve the quality of our institutions in this domain is the object of this thematic workshop

  5. How do we define “OUTREACH”? • The concept of outreach can be defined as: • “systematic efforts to provide unsolicited and predefined help to groups or individuals deemed to need it”, or • “to provide services beyond conventional limits as for example to particular segments of a community” • For universities: “investing university staff and resources for free in support of the surrounding communities and industries in meeting their challenges and improving their livelihoods and performance”

  6. Definition in practice • As outreach activities we suggest for this workshop to include some or all of the following activities: • Participating in the public debate on current issues • Servicing public institutions (local authorities, local schools, local administrative bodies) or private sector by providing information, ad-hoc research and analyses of issues of concern (free of charge – vs. consultancy) • Offering Open university / people’s university (popular themes) • Organising ad-hoc trainings and capacity-building for staff of local authorities, businesses, trade unions, associations, NGOs etc. • Engaging in “action-research” with selected stakeholder groups

  7. Outreach Strategies for BSU Presented by Anna Temu August 2012 BSU Workshop Welcome . Karibu

  8. What BSU can offer • Capacity to formalize internships, action research, action learning/case based training • Agree that the south need this and collaborative activities action learning, we need to link with e-learning. Action research require more time to interact – case development ICT facilities (cameras, Tele/video conferencing) • How to communicate research to various stakeholders; “collaborate to learn” south to south/north to south; • Develop communication/dissemination skills (university wide) – interdisciplinary, intercultural: action-reach methods (individuals, value chain, communities, societies) • University outreach/scientific forums • Jointly organize conference/forums at platform/institutional/regional levels) e.g. post-graduates to produce outreach materials from their theses for beneficiaries

  9. What BSU can offer • Lessons from cases to come up with grounded theory of what works and what doesn’t work • Small research grants to “look into” what works and doesn’t work, and why • Website collect written cases with pictures/sounds • Support writing text books for secondary schools and first years and hand books for SMEs targeted to specific value chain • Teams build to produce such materials – initiated by south – build teams to assess (researchers, collaborators (south and north), editors) • Venture with radio/TV stations – present particular issues/ link with school of journalism • How to produce mass media material and presentation, linking • Supporting existing medias to produce and air outreach materials

  10. What BSU can offer • Venture with radio/TV stations – present particular issues/ link with school of journalism • How to produce mass media materials and presentation, (most schools have journalists) • Supporting existing medias to produce and air outreach materials • Development incentive structure • Provide awards for best outreach programs in platform/institutions/regional • Quality assurance built in for every outreach activity itemized above • Train on QA issues in outreach programs • Develop joint framework from lessons learnt

  11. Areas of Concerns • Matching the time – north and south • Coverage – how we can involve others in this process? • Interest of the north to implement outreach activities in the south it there interest? If no, how can we make it attractive? • What is beyond the overheads in the south and north -need to be considered • The need for improving small infrastructure for e-learning and ICT facilities (minimal budget) –can it be accommodated

  12. What they think of us

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