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Uganda & Howest - Projects

Status: feel welcome to scroll down from our rising, over the present and still back into time to the archived projects(*)

Biogas production for milk cooling at MUARIK (Kabanyoro)
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Howest's postgraduate in sustainable energy together with Ghent University's Bio-Science Engineering's RE-SOURCE LAB, responded to an impactful innovation initiative by the Centre of Excellence in Waste Management, a promising research group with

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Uzima Empowerment (mental health)
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Within the Fort-Portal Rwengoma outskirts Uzima Empowerment Ltd is a non-profit organisation with the mission to improve mental health and to reduce stigma attached to mental health problems, working towards the prevention and response mechanisms through creating safe and open sp

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Applied Human Machine Intelligence in East Africa
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This European capacity building project in the field of higher education, as funded by the Erasmus-edu-2022-cbHE-strand-2 commission, is planned and deployed from 2023 to 2026 by the consortium of AP University (lead) and Howest University (content experts),

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Social Projects in Fort-Portal
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Howest foresees intensive internships by its last-year students from social work, applied health science, applied psychology and occupational therapy at one of underneath trusted social projects of their choice, possibly taking off in the academic year 2022-23.

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Virika Hospital in Fort-Portal (SOLAR installation by Prov.WVL)
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The Holy Family Virika Hospital in Fort-Portal is one of the oldest medical posts around the country, founded by the catholic White Sisters in 1911.

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Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Entrepreneurship Centre by Prov.WVL)
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Howest joins an Institutional University Cooperation, lead by the VUB. The targeted partner institution in Uganda is the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST).

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Angel’s Centre for Children with Needs
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Link: https://angelscentre.org/Contact: siska.vandemaele@howest.beStatus: internship(s) Howest Occupational Therapists Feb 2023

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KAFRED Development at Bigodi Sanctuary
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Led by its director John Tinka the Kibale Association For Rural and Environmental Development (KAFRED) which is located in the Bigodi village (at 1 hour drive from Fort-Portal) was established in 1992. KAFRED is an official Community Based Organization (CBO) in Uganda.

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Mountains of the Moon University (Business Incubator)
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The tight relation of Howest with Mountains of the Moon University in Fort-Portal (MMU) as a partner school in Uganda took off via the VLIRUOS-IUC which phased-in already in the year 2012.

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Mpanga River Documentary (*)
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Where people meet, things happen.

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