Deadline: 15-Jun-21
African Cities Lab (ACL) – a joint initiative led by EPFL is launching this call for proposals to create a digital education platform and its content on urban planning and urban development in Africa.
ACL is launching this call for projects to produce MOOCs on African cities and urban development. The target audience is urban professionals. The project distinguishes two types of MOOCs:
- General MOOCs address one theme in a transversal manner. They should provide state-of-the-art and updated training addressing current challenges. Case studies (focus on a city, project, etc) act as complements to the learning content.
- Specific MOOCs allow furthering developing a subject in the form of “deep-dive” training focusing on a project implementation and/or financing, or country case studies. They address a specific topic within the theme of interest and allow advanced urban professionals to train a specific skill set.
Focus Areas
The MOOCs should be developed on the following themes and must focus on the relationship to urban development in the context of urban growth and changing urban forms:
- Urban waste management and sanitation;
- Economic development;
- Housing;
- Public health;
- Water management/access;
- Gender.
Funding Criteria
- The ACL grant for the selected project will mainly cover:
- Filming and post-production costs of the videos;
- The cost of producing additional external content.
- The ACL will also help the project by providing support in the form of:
- Provision of a common graphic charter for the different MOOCs;
- Provision of disciplinary experts for further information on the call for projects;
- Provision of experts and witnesses to work with the project team;
- MOOC hosting on the ACL platform;
- The promotion of MOOCs through its traditional communication channels (social networks, institutional websites, press etc.)
Eligibility Criteria
The requesting institution must belong to one of four categories:
- An African public or private university;
- A nationally accredited African institution of higher education with at least 3 years of continuous and visible operation;
- A private company with at least 10 years of continuous and visible operations in Africa. The company does not need to have a local office;
- An international organisation based in an African country.
- The project must be led by teachers, researchers, tenured researchers or senior personnel in activity within their institution/company.
- Collaborations between two or more institutions are encouraged. A responsible applicant should be designated. The other institutions are considered co-applicants.
For more information, visit https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/exaf/acl_call_proposals/