Innovative Doctoral Education for Global Food Security is a joint project between the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Makerere University focused on development and performance of courses for doctoral students and workshops for senior staff. The workshops will content wise relate closely to the courses. In Makerere University, the joint project will be conducted under the auspices of the Directorate of Research and Graduate Training (DRGT) represented by the Director Professor Mukadasi Buyinza.

Under this project SLU and Makerere University will jointly develop and perform courses and workshops for up to 40 participants from Makerere, SLU and three African satellite universities.  Activities planned under courses include;

1. Pedagogics for teaching and learning – Global and local perspectives.
2. Information retrieval and scientific communication – Global and local perspectives.
3. To be a scientist – Global and local perspectives (what is scientific knowledge and how to make ethical judgment)

while activities planned under workshops include

1. Pedagogics (Teaching and learning Supervision)
2. Efficient global scientific communication – Networks and platforms for exchange of information – Open Access and other methods
3. What is science

Entry requirements
To participate in the courses, participants from Makerere university ought to be admitted to doctoral studies at either the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB) or the College of Agricultural Sciences and Environmental Sciences (CAES), preferably in the early stages of the course and computer literate.

Participants from satellite partners and SLU ought to be admitted to doctoral studies at colleges/faculties of agriculture and veterinary sciences or similar, preferably in the early stages of the course, computer literate and able to participate in all three courses.

Expected outcomes
Within the frames of global food security the project will result in;

• Increased competence in some transferable skills among the doctoral students
• New networks
• New conceptsfor courses and workshops
• Improved teaching and supervision capacity at both Mak and satellite partner universities
• An improved infrastructure and capacity for scientific communication
• New forms for integrating international and global dimensions to the doctoral education
• Information and experiences necessary for harmonizing the educational guidelines, structures and routines as a first step towards university agreements for joint degrees

Each course will be performed twice, once during the first semester and for the second time during the second semester, during 2014. All courses and workshops will take place at Makerere university.