‘MAGAART’ is an acronym for the project’s six partner universities: Maseno, Aarhus, Gulu, Aalborg, Roskilde, and Tribhuvan.The original name of the project is 'Capacity Building within Research Communication, Dissemination and Networking'. MAGAART is an independent project (DKK 4.75M Grant) with Aarhus University as project holder, running from January 2014 - December 2017 (i.e. project extension).

During an initial workshop and planning meeting in March 2014 the project's focus and activities were reshaped with the purpose of developing and conducting courses for PhD students and supervisors in South – fully or partly composed by eMode (eLearning), and with a learner-centred learning approach (PBL). 

Project components

The project has three components of which E-learning and PBL has been combined.

1. Knowledge sharing, Research Dissemination and Communication
2. E-Learning 
3. Problem Based Learning (PBL)

Project objectives

 Overall objective

• South partner universities strengthened in knowledge sharing, research dissemination and communication.

Immediate objectives

• South partner universities' institutional capacity in knowledge sharing, research dissemination and communication strengthened
• South partner universities' institutional capacity in e-learning strengthened
• South partner universities' institutional capacity in Problem-Based Learning (PBL) strengthened.