In June 2024, IMC Krems hosted a week of training in Krems/Vienna for four Mozambican colleagues, combining MA-level teaching practice, a “Lego Serious Play” methods lab, project-management coaching, and agrotourism field visits. These sessions strengthened didactics, curriculum planning, and cooperation routines across the partnership.
In November 2024, the team met in Inhambane and Maputo for a combined teacher-training and stakeholder roundtable series. Thirty-two ESHTI lecturers took part in the ESHTI “Train-the-Trainers” workshop, while consultations with government, industry, and civil-society actors helped align the envisaged MA with labour-market needs and emphasised the value of hands-on, field-based learning.
At the same time, a skills and training-needs survey (20 responses) was analysed and circulated to the full team on 1 Oct 2024, and ESHTI completed a feasibility study feeding directly into MA design. Building on these results and the November inputs, ESHTI successfully compiled an MA proposal; the full package entered internal Graduate School review in April 2025.
Field-site scouting around Inhambane identified several promising community partners, with final site selection - supporting the pilot subjects and student fieldwork - planned between June and October 2025.
Throughout the year, the bilingual project website documented project progress (including the June training and the November activities) and supported wider visibility and outreach. Looking ahead to Year 3, priorities include co-developing teaching materials, selecting community partners, and piloting two new BA subjects that will later feed into the new MA degree.
