The Renewable Energy Incubator at Makerere University is a partner to Fredskorpset (FK) Norway, a Norwegian Government body supporting professional exchange between institutions in Norway and Africa, Asia and Latin America. The south-south exchange programme involves 3 partners (Husk Power Systems, India, Renewable Energy Incubator, MUK and Space Engineering Limited, Tanzania). The exchange period is...Read More

The Executive Director of Uganda Investment Authority, Eng Dr Frank Ssebowa, has, on behalf of the Government , handed over 100 acres of land to Makerere University’s Centre For Research in Transportation Technologies (CRTT). The land, in the Jinja Industrial park, is located in Kagogwa village.  CRTT will build a production plant for the Kiira...Read More

Makerere University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UNICEF to collaborate in the area of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) at an event held on 9th May 2014. The event also involved a launch of a three year project code-named Unicef-Academia-Private Sector Partnership (UNAPP) WASH Innovations Project, at the College of Engineering, Design, Art...Read More

Geofrey Bakkabulindi, a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has today May 9, 2014 successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Planning Of Low-Cost Electricity Distribution Networks for Rural Electrification” . The study sought to find models for planning low cost Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) distribution networks for rural electrification. SWER lines supply...Read More

History In Progress Uganda and Makerere Art Gallery/IHCR present:  Exhibition and Book Presentation of Ebifananyi I: The Photographer; Deo Kyakulagira Makerere Art Gallery/Institute of Heritage Conservation and Restoration May 8 – 31, 2014 Opening reception with panel discussion on Thursday 8th of May at 5 pm with with Deo’s son and heir Dennis Kalyango, MTSIFA...Read More