TEPATE Mozambique kick-off event successfully held

The kick-off event of the Theory-Practice Balance in Teacher Education Project was organised at the Universidade Pedagogica de Maputo. Participants sitting in the event room, most of the people are wearing face masks.
Eeva Alarcón
Eeva Alarcón, Deputy Head of Mission/ Head of Cooperation at Embassy of Finland in Maputo

The kick-off event of the Theory-Practice Balance in Teacher Education Project was organised at the Universidade Pedagogica de Maputo, Mozambique on 24 November. The event was organised in a hybrid format that enabled both physical and online participation.

 

Birgit Holm
Birgit Holm, Executive Director of ADPP Mozambique
Camilo Ussene
Camilo Ussene, Director of the Master’s course in Educational Psychology, Universidade Pedagogica de Maputo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Marcos Chirinda
Professor Marcos Chirinda, UNESCO

Present were 70 participants, 57 out of which were physically present in Maputo. Among the participants were representatives from: the Finnish embassy to Mozambique; Mozambican Ministry for Higher Education, Science and Technology; Mozambican Ministry for Education; UNESCO; Finnish National Agency for Education; ADPP; and from all the partners of the TEPATE project.

In the kick-off event, the senior management of partner institutions reaffirmed their commitment to the project. However, it was further stated by a number of participants, among them the UPM Vice-Rector and member of the TEPATE Board, the ADPP and UNESCO Representatives, that the TEPATE Project should not only be regarded an individual project but as a new strategy for long-term capacity building of teacher education at the Southern partner institutions.

Roger González Margalef
Roger González Margalef, Distance Learning Tutor & TEPATE coordinator at ISET One World

The participants also expressed a clear wish to reach as many teachers as possible across the country in order to provide them with opportunities to update their pedagogical skills as part of the TEPATE project.

 

Text by

Sarita Monjane Henriksen, Universidade Pedagogica de Maputo
Roger González Margalef, Instituto Superior de Educação e Tecnologia 
Eeva Lehtonen, JAMK University of Applied Sciences 

 

Read more about this development project:

https://www.jamk.fi/en/Research-and-Development/RDI-Projects/global-learning-crisis/tepate-mosambique/