ARCHES MoU signed
Published: 23 May 2014
The University of Glasgow has signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at boosting public health, primary care and environmental science in Mozambique.
Planet Earth Institute (PEI), an international charity working for the scientific independence of Africa, is proposing to create an African Research Centre in Health and Environmental Science (ARCHES), based in Mozambique, with a primary focus on public health, primary care and environmental science. It will be sponsored by the Mozambique Ministry of Education and PEI will help to raise sponsorship.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Friday, 16 May, by all project partners of the ARCHES project. The partners are the Planet Earth Institute, the University of Glasgow (UoG), Eduardo Mondlane University (EMU) and the Ministry of Education in Mozambique. As part of this collaboration, two of the University of Glasgow’s Colleges – Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences and Science and Engineering – will deliver a Professor Training Programme (PTP) for Eduardo Mondlane University, tailored to suit the research interests and strengths of each of the EMU and UoG professors involved.
The approach will include delivery of discipline-specific PhD supervision and selection of research training according to research interests and individual needs. The main benefit is that it would help establish long-term research relationships between supervisors at both universities. Double degree PhD supervision – another element of the agreement – will allow students to benefit from the resources of both institutions over four years, receiving a degree from each university. Students will benefit from PhD supervision from UoG and EMU in a variety of research areas from infectious and non-infectious diseases e.g. cancer and diabetes, to water engineering and environmental statistics.
First published: 23 May 2014
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