TESIECS Consortium Launch

TESIECS- Towards Enhancing Sustainable and Innovative Environmental Change Solutions’ the Intra-Africa Mobility Scheme is funded by the European Union (EU) and will facilitate long-term and short-term student and staff capacity enhancement and train cohorts of postgraduate students to be environmental thought leaders and sustainability champions. TESIECS has brought together four Universities in Southern Africa namely the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), the University of Botswana (UB), the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) with UJ being the coordinating partner. Vrije University Amsterdam in the Netherlands is the technical partner of the project. TESIECS was launched at UJ’s Auckland Park Kingsway campus on Tuesday, 16 July 2024, kicking off what will be a fruitful four-year period, 2024-2027, of developing and promoting creative, locally contextual solutions to environmental challenges.

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