Voices Magazine

27 August 2018 | VOICES Bi-Monthly Magazine of the University of Technology, Jamaica A pproximately eighty (80) students and five members of faculty from UTech, Ja will benefit from involvement in the City Lab Caribbean” project funded by The Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The project is a collaboration between fifteen European and Caribbean Higher Education Institutes: University of Antwerp (Belgium), Aalborg Universitet (Denmark), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), the University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago), University of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago), University of Guyana (Guyana), Government Technical Institute - Ministry of Education (Guyana), Institute for Graduate Studies and Research (Suriname), Polytechnic College Suriname (Suriname), Universidad Iberoamericana (Dominican Republic), Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (Dominican Republic), University of Technology, Jamaica (Jamaica) and the Caribbean Maritime University (Jamaica). The project aims to stimulate innovation in teaching in higher education through problem-based learning (PBL) in the Caribbean, to make higher education institutes and students better prepared to deal with contemporary urban problems and challenges. The eligibility period of the project will be from the 15th October 2017. The University of Antwerp will be the lead coordinator for this project. The Caribbean Co-coordinator is the University of the West Indies. Both universities will be responsible for the daily and financial management of the project. They are also responsible for the organization of the inception and annual team meetings. The coordinators will also monitor the project and will participate in all main activities of the project: provide staff for expert pool; support technical workshops; Citylab workshop; perform expert visits during the running of the modules and attend the final conference of the project. Dr. Carol Archer, Associate Professor in the Faculty of the Built Environment will serve as the Project Lead for UTech, Jamaica. Students Engage in “City Lab Caribbean” project funded by The Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union Participants from the fifteen Universities in Europe, Latin American and the Caribbean, who participated in the Problem-based Learning Workshop at the UTech, Jamaica Papine Campus, June 2018.