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Uganda: Students to Study Energy

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The Monitor (Kampala)

15 May 2008
Posted to the web 14 May 2008

Tom Magumba
Kampala

Fourteen students will benefit from a scholarship to study Master of Science Renewable Energy, the first of its kind launched at Makerere University last week.

The students are sponsored by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) under its Program for Master Studies (Noma) with support from German Technical Corporation Energy Advisory Project (EAP).

At the launch, the German Ambassador to Uganda, Mr Reinhard Buchholz, said the initiative aims at contributing to the education of personnel in renewable energy to meet the needs of the sector in the region.

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"Today we are inaugurating to build capacity in Uganda human resource at higher level" he said on May 9th.

He said Uganda largely depends on foreign renewable energy experts and sends personnel out to study postgraduate courses that do not necessary meet the needs of the country. The course will help to bridge the gap and also offer home-bred specialists.

Mr Buchholz said German has agreed to scale up its support to Uganda's energy sector to at least 27 billion. The new program will be based at Makerere University in collaboration with other universities in the region.

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