As you finish reading this sentence, do you know how many workers died in mines around the world?Mining has always been a vital economic and social activity since pre-historic times. Providing valuable resources for the survival and the well-being of a considerable part of humanity. Although it is a crucial activity, it ranks as one of the most dangerous working sectors. And still has a negative image within society. When an injury occurs at a workplace it comes at a cost, not just in the suffering of the injured person, but also direct and indirect costs for the company and society.Large mining companies are talking about goals such as “Zero Harm”. To achieve a Zero Harm environment two main measures should be done, one obvious method is continuously identifying, eliminating or reducing risks at the risk management stage. The other essential method is training workers to deal with the risks in a risk-free environment, for instance using Virtual Reality and Augmented reality (VR\AR) equipment to mimic the mining environment. Safety Training with Real Immersivity for Mining (STRIM) arises from the synergy between higher education institutions and mining companies providing tools to improve occupational health and safety (OSH) conditions and implementation of coherent and comprehensive educational approaches for mining sector. With the help of implementation smart technologies in proper training, these tools will improve capacity building, modernisation of universities and to provide safety-oriented culture.This proposed KA aims at enhancing knowledge exchange through an effective collaboration between researchers in the fields of Occupational hygiene, safety and health in and environment in Mining Engineering.The project aims to modernize the educational programs of HEIs in African countries. As well as add master programs in OSH.

The STRATEGIC project aims to co-create responsible research and innovation approach that aligns with social-cultural values, principles, contexts, needs and interests in SSA and implement capacity development plans that can strengthen the ethics and regulatory capacity to ensure responsible digital health technologies for clinical research and practice. The project will involve SSA and EU partners and stakeholders and co-create functional resources, such as the STRATEGIC training materials. The urgency of strengthening ethics and legal infrastructure for digital health technologies in SSA is due to the increasing integration of digital technologies into clinical research and practice and the potential negative impacts of these systems on patients, communities and society. While most countries in the Global North have recognised the importance of responsible digital health technologies, the ethics and regulatory capacities for addressing the ethical and legal risks of these technologies are still lacking in SSA. The overarching aim of the STRATEGIC project is to co-create a theoretically strong, empirically supported and widely consulted responsible research and innovation approach and capacity development plan and materials that can strengthen relevant ethics and regulatory institutions for clinical research and practice in SSA. It will identify and map the existing ethical and legal infrastructure in SSA, highlighting the gaps and needs; use these insights to co-create an RRI approach and co-develop and implementing trainings that will also be interested into existing training infrastructure and network. It will also establish sustainable e-community that exist beyond the project. Methodologies to be used include, stakeholder engagement and co-creation strategies such as focus groups, consensus workshops and roundtable discussions.

Climate change and induced disasters have direct negative impacts on the environment. Increasing the knowledge of experts on using spatial methods to cope with climate change effects and related disasters, as well as providing proper tools for spatial analysis to support planning and decision making, will improve the quality of environmental management in Mozambique and Africa.Three 10 ECTS courses will be developed in this project for training students on the applications and use of spatial methods for disaster modelling and management. Disaster management authorities, organisations, and companies in Mozambique need Geographical Information Science (GIS)/Remote Sensing (RS) experts to cope with an increasing influence of climate change, while there is lack of experts on these topics. This implies that the students who will be trained on these topics will have a high chance of being employed. A disaster management tool (DMT) will be developed. The partners, together with the public, will at the end be the main users of the DMT, and their staff will be using the developed courses to increase their knowledge on the applications of GIS/RS in disaster modelling and management. In general, this project establishes a type of cooperation between universities, government and business that supports the “knowledge triangle innovation” thematic area.eLearning systems will be established in Mozambican partner universities, so the developed courses as well as other programmes can be offered in distance mode. This is very beneficial specially for vulnerable groups who cannot attend in-campus programmes. Trainers will be trained on how to teach the courses. Dissemination activities will be conducted to increase the general knowledge and awareness of public and organizations on spatial methods and their applications for disaster management.