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Samson Mhlanga

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EU-ZW NUST Partner Closure Of Year 2024

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As we come to the end of the year NUST as Partner 01 concluded the year with a strategic meeting to check what we set out to do at the beginning of the project EU-ZW in Dec 2023. From the WP01 Management, NUST with the support of all the partners held a total of 19 Project Management Meetings online and a total of 4 internal training meetings besides the subtask meetings where the team members contributed to the overall achievements of the project. WP02: Learning Resources Quality Improvement Process: Training and Adaption; saw  Nduduzo Phuthi as Liaison person assisted by Samson Mhlanga leading in training P01 members to develop personal modules on the EEDA platform. Awareness of Quality Improvement Process was highlighted in a paper presented by Samson Mhlanga and co-authors during the 4^th Education for Sustainable Development Inter-disciplinary Research (ESDIR) Conference recently held at the National University of Science and Technology on 16 – 18 October 2024, running under the theme: "Exploring Innovative Approaches & Emerging Trends in Education for Sustainable Development”.  The Team is ready to continue in 2025 to develop the module as listed in the WP3 lead by Liston Matindife; for the NUST two programmes (Power and Systems Engineering, and Renewable Energy Engineering). WP04 lead by Peter Baricholo started by expansion of the list from WP03 into detailed breakdown of the different modules and allocated to all the lecturers who are expected to develop through co-creation and building based on modules that have been developed in the EEDA platform as collaborated across the global partners.  WP05 lead by Busiso Mtunzi coordinated the development of the Round Table Forum and the launch of this was undertaken. The results of these events were published during the above mentioned conference. WP06 Remote Laboratory led by Caven Dzingai and supported Destine Mashava, Witness Chirume, Herbert Manuel and Joseph Dongo have initiated the purchase of components for the fabrication of the Solar Thermal Remote Laboratory. Awareness was undertaken by Samson Mhlanga during the foregone EDSIR conference and preparatory work in had been undertaken by booking and running the Bolivia Solar Laboratory. WP07 led by Nicholas Tayisepi has kicked in with the subtasks allocated by the Task Leader Bright Chisadza from LSU, with more work scheduled in early 2025. Samson Mhlanga leading WP08, which has so far delivered the listing of Expected Learning Hours comparative schedules across the projects. Samson Mhlanga assisting Lwazi Sibanda developed a questionnaire which yielded the results on further training request from our Round Table Forum of industrialists. Module development of the Energy Audit which was the highest requested by the Industrialist is underdevelopment and expected to be deployed early 2025 in collaboration with the Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Initiative (SOLTRAIN+). Dissemination of the project has been through 4 conference paper presentations at the ESDIR conference by NUST project members and project partners; LinkedIn posts by Samson Mhlanga of the Southern African Youth Forum event where EU-ZW project was hosted by the EU Delegation Zimbabwe. December so the NUST Team Peter, Samson and Destine also talking to learners from Sunningham High school, Tsholotsho High School and Matopo High School during career day visit to NUST, 26-28 November 2024, respectively. It has been a busy year and expect 2025 to by even greater with the brilliant collaboration with our project partners led by Torsten Fransson (EES), Valentina Zaccaria (MDU), Araceli Hernandez Bayo and Lius (UPM), Edison Manyumbu (CUT), Bright Chisadza (LSU), Peace-maker Masukume (MSU) and Hilton Chingosho (UZ). We appreciate our project funder the European Union. 

 

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