Project period: August 2024 – July 2025

Project donor: ESTDEV – Estonian Centre for International Development

Project partners: Tallinn University (leading partner), Kyambogo University

Project budget: 40 840 € (total budget 99 760 €)

One of the directions Uganda has taken in education is digital transformation, which requires a significant increase in the skills of teachers. Unfortunately, national efforts do not reach everyone, and in addition to rural areas, the field of vocational education also lags behind in the acquisition of knowledge.

This is emphasised by the UNESCO 2022 report on the subject, which notes that access to digital skills training for vocational education teachers is limited in low- and middle-income countries compared to teachers in other educational institutions. However, the digital ability of the teachers themselves plays a decisive role in the students’ skills.

With the cooperation project of Mondo, Tallinn University and Kyambogo University of Uganda “Digital Transformation in Education: Co-creating Institutionally Driven Innovations in the Republic of Uganda’s TVET System”, we support the creation and long-term implementation of a digital transformation agenda for vocational schools in Uganda.

With this project, the national ICT policies, learning theories, methods and curricula of vocational education will be mapped and an action plan and strategy will be developed to solve today’s shortcomings by taking advantage of the already existing strengths in the system. The trainings of Estonian experts help to increase the digital capacity of the project participants on the Ugandan side, which enables them to be leaders of institutional innovations and creators of change.

Project partners:
Mondo is an Estonian organisation aiming to reduce global inequality. Mondo operates in 12 countries abroad and in Estonia. Mondo focuses on education/health, livelihood, environmental and digital competence programmes in partner countries, and global education in Estonia. Mondo’s digital competencies programme aims to reduce the digital gap and inequality in our partner states.

Kyambogo University is the second largest public university in Uganda, established in 2003. The university’s vision is to be a center of academic and professional excellence. Its mission is to advance knowledge and skills in science, technology, education, and other fields, emphasizing quality, equity, progress, and social transformation, and its core values include quality, equity, integrity, and professionalism.

Tallinn University is the third-largest public university in Estonia. Tallinn University has committed itself to the strategic goal of becoming an international research university with a strong social conscience and an open-minded, flexible and collegial environment for academic and personal growth. It is also a university in which considerable academic freedom guaranteed to both the faculties and the students is balanced by stringent quality requirements. Centre for Educational Technology (CET, established in 1998) is a department within TLU’s School of Digital Technologies, being the leading R&D centre in the field of digital innovation and education in Baltic countries.

Project coordinator:
Julia Gerda Sokk
julia.gerda@mondo.org.ee