Project background

The activities on solar energy for cooking has been part of a collaboration on research and education in Energy Technology with a group of African universities. The projects have been financed under the NORAD programs (NUFU, NOMA, EnPe, NORPART, NORHED, the Norwegian Research Council programs (EnergiX, NORDGLOBAL) and EU (Erasmus+).

The list of projects are: (see Project history): 

• NUFU:                Small scale concentrating solar energy systems (2007-2012, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique).
• NUFUSM:          Renewable energy resources and their development (2007-2008, South Africa).
• NOMA:               Master program in renewable energy. (Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, cross linked with the NUFU project).
• NORGLOBAL:   Cooking with the sun- A comparative analysis of implementing solar cookers (2009-2012, South Africa, Mozambique). Coordinated with the NUFU project.
• EnergiX:            Small scale concentrating solar energy systems (2007-2010, South Africa) Support for the NUFU project.
• Quota Scheme   provided very useful support to the NUFU/EnPE projects in the way that PhD work could also be made at NTNU (3 PhDs on renewable energy, 2008-2015).
• EnPe I:              MSc program within renewable energy technology (2009-2014, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique).
• EnPe II:             Capacity building in Renewable Energy Education and Research (2015-2020, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique). Coordination by MU.
• EnPe II:             Master program in Oil and Gas Technology  (2015-2020, Tanzania). Coordination by UDSM.
• EiT-M, ReWISE: PhD collaboration Mekelle University (2018-2020, Ethiopia).

The current projects are:

• NORPART:         UDSM-NTNU Mobility Program in Energy Technology (2019-2023, Tanzania).
                             Exchange of students and staff at UDSM and 4 departments at NTNU.   Norpart project link  
• NORHED II:       Energy Technology Network (2021-2026, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Malawi, South Sudan)     ENET project link
                             Small scale renewable energy techbnology implementation.
• Erasmus+:         University Network on PhD Programs in Energy Technology (2021-2023, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Italy)  UNET link
                            Joint development of PhD courses relevant for Energy Technology. Capacity Building project

The current partner universities are:

• Univ. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Dodoma university, Tanzania
• Makerere University, Uganda
• Busitema University,Uganda
• Mekelle University, Ethiopia
• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
• Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
• SAVE university, Mozambique
• Malawi University of Business and Applied Science, Malawi
• University of Juba, South Sudan