AhaMAK
Exploring connections between innovative co-working communities at Makerere University, Kampala
WHO ARE WE?
In November a smiling creative sustainability student, a cute water and environmental engineering student, a wise creative sustainability design student , a creative artificial intelligence student, and a caring creative sustainability student met for the first time.
Together we form the Problem Based Learning (PBL) East-Africa Aalto University team in 2019.
Yes, that is a mouthfull but it basically means we are working on a PBL project together with Makerere University students in Kampala, Uganda. This project is part of a bigger collaboration between Aalto Global Impact and three East-African universities. The project is funded by the HEI ICI Programme of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. You can read more about this here.
WHAT DO WE DO?
Our goal is to find out what makes a good co-working space for Makerere students and test our findings by hosting workshops together with our partner student teams, around topics that are relevant for their group projects.
The main progress is made by spending two weeks in Uganda. In Makerere Univeristy we work tightly together with 11 students who are also part of the PBL East-Africa project this year. At the same time we connect with many other people, both inside and outside the university.
