NURTURE facilitated a visit between the southern partners and northern partners in Oslo, Norway in the first week of June 2024, again.
One of the main goals of the NURTURE global project is to establish and strengthen international networks and collaborations between the five universities of Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, University of Gondar, Hawassa University, Debre Markos University, and Jimma University in Ethiopia and Northern partners in Norway such as University of South Eastern Norway and University of Oslo.
In this regard, NURTURE, in line with its capacity-building and network expansion goals, invited two of its project members from the faculties at AASTU and UoG for staff exchange to Norway for a two-week visit. In their visit to Norway, Dr. Fasika and Dr. Abraham are visiting USN and UiO and participating in meetings and discussions with various project handlers at the research and administration level to strengthen cross-university collaborations and further develop project progress.
NURTURE, as the conductor of the mentioned event, welcomed the guests, planned the meetings between the various members at USN and UiO, organized discussions between the project handlers, and provided social activities for the guests Dr. Abraham and Dr. Fasika. Also, the current NURTURE PhD exchange students who came to Norway at the start of the Spring 2024 semester joined the events. PhD students, Alamu and Mulugeta are on PhD exchange from AASTU and UoG.
After the group of guests visited USN and UiO and participated in meetings with project handlers, Dr. Shegaw as the main project handler took the initiative to take the guests for a tour in Oslo. On their city tour, the guests did sightseeing in Oslo, went on a boat adventure, and had lunch and dinner together.
During both the formal meetings and informal social activities, a lot of project-related experiences and notes were discussed and shared between the participants, and fruitful take-aways were extracted.
Below you can see some photos regarding the mentioned activities of NURTURE.
