USAL Collaboration
The University of Salamanca participates in the European GEODES project, which aims to implement higher studies in Geosciences and Mining Engineering at different African universities. USAL Professor of Petrology and Geochemistry Lola Pereiro is the main researcher on the project, in which other professors from the Department of Geology collaborate.
GEODES, an acronym for Geosciences, Development and Sustainability? Africa and Europe together, have a budget of around 450,000 euros co-financed by the European Union's Erasmus+ Program, allocated to their city hall for the provision of research infrastructures and training of teachers at African universities by teachers from European institutions. The coordination of the consortium corresponds to the University of Coimbra.
It was not the first time that the University of Salamanca participated in an initiative of this type, and that GEODES presented itself as the continuation of a previous project in the same line, SUGERE, which concluded last November with successful results for African universities involved in Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde.
Host universities that studied at SUGERE participated in the new project, such as Eduardo Mondlane from Mozambique and Agostinho Neto, from Angola, and promoted the participation of smaller ones from both countries, such as the Angolan universities of Katyavala Bwila and Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, and the Mozambican universities of Lúrio and Púnguè.