UOC President meets with Bakary Diallo

UOC President Josep A. Planell meets with the President of the African Virtual University (AVU), Bakary Diallo.  

Diallo visits the university within the framework of the European H2020 project EPICA,“Strategic partnership for the co-design of an innovative and scalable ePortfolio ecosystem to improve the quality and visibility of skills", coordinated by the International Council for Open and Distance Education  (ICDE), and integrated by the UOC, the following sub-Saharan universities: Open University of Tanzania, Makerere University from Uganda, Maseno University from Kenya, and the African Virtual University, and the companies Documenta S.L. and "Integrated Communications, Worldwide Events" (ICWE). 

The project aims to address the skills-gap of the african countries through a process of co-design, adaptation, implementation and validation of an innovative and scalable Competency-Based ePortfolio.