The University is committed to fostering innovative interdisciplinary
research, innovation and collaborations, and has made significant
progress in recent years of advancing this agenda through the
development of new and external research partnerships in health and
agricultural sector. GLUK has made tremendous progress in Research
and collaboration with the Kenyan government, international
organizations and institutions making outstanding contributions
towards Health and Agricultural sector in innovation and policy
formulation.
Some of our Active Research, Innovation and Collaboration include;
- An Erasmus project that aims to boost aquaculture education and
capacity building in Kenya, focusing on sustainable practices and
food security. Recently a team from UiT visited Kenya. - AQUADEVBUS brings together two Kenyan universities (Great Lakes
University of Kisumu and Rongo University), a Kenyan research
institution (Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute), and three
Scandinavian partners (UiT, Turku University of Applied Sciences and
Peimarin Koulutuskuntayhtyma – Livia- in Finland). The project is
funded by the Erasmus + programme ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE
(Capacity building in the field of higher education), has a total
budget of 0.8 million EURO and will run for three years (2023-2026). - A training on Conscious Discipline,The training is precursor to a
robust program targeting households to help manage the negative
mental health indicators among children.Conscious Discipline is an
adult-first technique that addresses adult self-regulation and skill
sets, first to empower adults to model, teach and live the skills and
ideals they would want their children to acquire.