Capacity Building

CAPACITY BUILDING PILLAR

Introduction

The main activities of the capacity building pillar includes a Skills Development Toolkit, an e-coaching concept and the roll-out of the capacity building program. The Skills Development Toolkit provides faculty with a range of teaching approaches and methods to deliver different learning approaches to their students: Service Learning, Intrapreneurial Learning, and Performance Training. Content for the Skills Development Toolkit and concepts have been compiled in the ACCESS Wiki.

The e-coaching aims to test existing collaborative digital tools (mainly apps) and develop application procedures in the e-coaching of practice-oriented projects at universities, focusing on the use of free web-based tools that mainly require a tablet or smartphone for their use. This facilitates the learning and coaching process for students and faculty in a modern digital way.

The roll-out approach makes it possible to reach about 30 HEIs in selected partner countries – through the direct higher education partners (members of the project consortium of ACCESS), which act as anchor universities in each African country. This allows the Skills Development Toolkit to be tested and implemented within their own organizations.

Core Activities & Tasks

ACCESS Wiki as Skills Development Tool

The Capacity building pillar is creating and compiling content and teaching concepts for the ACCESS Wiki especially for lecturers of all African partners of the ACCESS network.

For this, the ACCESS Wiki is introduced among the ACCESS network as Skills Development Toolkit for lecturers by lecturers.

Its main function is serving as a knowledge platform of existing learning tools and new approaches of teaching methods to promote the employability in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

You can easily find the ACCESS Wiki on the upper right in the navigation of this website – alternatively also here.

Development of e-coaching concept

The intention of the e-coaching concept is to facilitate the learning and coaching process for students and university lecturers in a digital way. The goal is to test existing collaborative internet-based tools and develop application offerings in the context of e-coaching for practice-based projects at universities.
To realize that, an e-coaching handbook has been compiled and will be implemented in the ACCESS Wiki, to give like a kind of guideline for creating a helpful and working e-coaching environment.

Visibility & Communication

This part of the capacity building activities focuses on the goal to spread the idea and the network of ACCESS through effective visibility and communication of all partners of the ACCESS project.

To follow this goal we are using and maintaining several digital communication channels like the ACCESS website and the ACCESS Wiki, accompanied by the ongoing development of Social Media like facebook and the establishment of the ACCESS newsletter, which gets spread to all kind of stakeholders of the ACCESS network.

Train on Trainer in capacity building

The Train-on-Trainer concept is part of the capacity building roll-out approach, that will allow us to reach at least 30 HEIs in the selected partner countries by the end of the first project phase. Our direct university partner (member of the project consortium) in each African country will be an anchor university to test and implement the Skills Development Toolkit by holding different kinds of workshops in their organization.

In a further step, they will conduct own trainings for faculty with at least 30 faculty members at five local partner universities per partner country. This South-South knowledge transfer will allow ACCESS to create an impact in more than 30 universities and reach more than 180 lecturers.

Contact

Sandy Adam

Coordinator for ACCESS (Capacity Building)
Leipzig University | Sports Faculty
sandy.adam@uni-leipzig.de

Matthias Grahl

Coordinator for ACCESS (Capacity Building)
Leipzig University
Faculty of Economics and Management Science
matthias.grahl@uni-leipzig.de

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