Hub for Education on ICT for Sustainability

23/08/2019

Our 3rd summer school is taking place at the end of November. Applicants have been reviewed and unfortunately, due to limited space, we could not take them all. If you have been accepted you should have received a confirmation email by now. Please contact us if you have not.

13/08/2018

The project Hub for Education on ICT for Sustainability offers every year within the project runtime a Summer School. This year’s Summer School is on Sustainability Entrepreneurship in the frame of ICT and will take place at the University of Cape Town from the 19th to 30th November 2018. The main...

27/05/2018

We are doing research on using technology to address water resource issues. Please help us by completing the 10min survey. Share this as well please

Please take 6 -10 minutes to complete our survey on water resource monitoring (REC-H Reference Number: H17-SCI-CSS-008). This survey is aimed at understanding the perceptions of citizens in regards to contributing data on water pollution e.g. littering, dirty water, water leaks, burst pipes and tank...

22/02/2018

We visited an Idea Jam of the YEEES - Project at Leuphana University. Have a look what YEEES is all about:

Ten African and German students participated in the YEEES Idea Jam, a LAB on sustainability oriented entrepreneurial solutions at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany, from 22 January to 9 February 2018. The research project YEEES, an abbreviation for Yields of Evocative Entrepreneurial approaches...

01/02/2018

Christian Osorio has been assigned as project manager for CENIT@EA on behalf of Universität Oldenburg. Congratulations Christian Osorio!

https://cenit-ea.org/2018/02/01/giz-visits-oldenburg-university/

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18/01/2018

We are pleased to announce that Prof Ulrike Rivett has been appointed as the HOD for the newly established School of I.T. Congratulations!

13/01/2018

13/01/2018

Prof. Ulrike Rivett from the reseach team iCOMMS South Africa , at the University of Cape Town, visited the University of Oldenburg.

HEdIS team member Prof. Ulrike Rivett from the University of Cape Town visited the University of Oldenburg. Not only did she held a guest lecture on Information Communication Technology for Development, abbreviated as ICT4D, we also had a group meeting to start planning ahead for the coming months.�...

05/12/2017

In the frame of the DAAD and BMZ sponsored project HEdIS, the 1st HEdIS Summer School “IoT for Sustainable Citizens” took place from 22nd to 30th November 2017. The Summer School was organized and run in partnership with the Nelson Mandela University (NMU, Port Elizabeth), the University of Cape...

01/12/2017

Artombo!

Artombo was also present at the 1st HEdIS Summer School. Artombo is a cultural project which offers art workshops for children and young people from communities surrounding Port Elizabeth. It aimed at providing high quality art classes to learners who would otherwise not have the opportunity. In add...

24/11/2017

On November 22nd, 2017 the 1st HEdIS Summer School started with a Welcome Event at the Summerstrand Hotel in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Students and some industrial partners had the opportunity to register early for our summer school and also exchange some words to get to know each other. The fir...

24/11/2017

Dr. Lester Cowley lecturing about understanding the layers of design (infrastructure, sensors, connectivity, analytics and smart
apps) for IoT at the 1st HEdIS Summer School!