Our academic partnerships are strategically made for the mutual benefit of the partners. Among the activities with partners includes:
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To build the capacity of academic partners in critical areas of need
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Visiting professors/academic staff to postgraduate courses or continuous programmes development (CPD)
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Faculty outreach, exchange and exposure
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Student exchange to use laboratories and facilities
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Joint research and publication
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Internship and job placement for students and staff
We maintain collaboration with researchers in several global centres of excellence through our board members who support us and help to steer the direction of our academic programmes and research. Partners with whom we have recently made exchanges and engagement include;
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Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Technical University of Munich
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Texas A&M University Transportation Institute
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University of Cape Town
Core regional academic partners
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Nigeria Building and Road Research Institute (Nigeria)
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Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone
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University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia
Our Aim for Industrial Partnerships
- Enrolling staff into post-graduate programmes
- Run short courses for continuing professional development
- Industry outreach/ internships programme (for students and staff)
- Joint research, solving developmental problems, and publication
- Case studies in transport systems
- Scholarship for staff
- Consultancy assignment in the region
- Development of training manuals
- Industry Guest lecturers’ input into capacity building and training,
The core national partners:
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Academic partners
- Takoradi Technical University
- Kumasi Technical University
- Building and Road Research Institute (BRRI), Kumasi
- Regional maritime university
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Industry partners Road Sub sector
- Ministry of Roads and Highways
- Ministry of Transport
- Ghana Highway Authority
- Department of Feeder Roads
- Department of Urban Roads
- Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
- Accra Metropolitan Assembly