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EXCHANGE PROJECT TARGETS

SMALL TOWN TRANSFORMATION

The projects’ overarching goal is to serve as a model for

future South-North cooperation in learning and teaching

tudents from UNAM providing the participants from Oranjemund and
and the University with the methodologies the Museum Association
of Basel went to understand these of Namibia. The post-
through a four- changing environments at graduate students
S week international home and abroad in order are pursuing their MA
exchange programme, to creatively think about studies in fields such as
themed “Small Town strategies for the future Tourism, Geo-Information
Transformation”. The two well-being of societies. Science, Geography and
groups travelled to various The project is thus situated Environmental Studies,
small towns in Namibia and in the framework of the Sociology, Political
Switzerland, to learn from Sustainable Development Studies, History and
each other. Goals (SDGs). Archaeology, as well as
Heritage and Conservation
The projects’ overarching Nine post-graduate Management,
goal is to serve as a model students from
for future South-North the University
cooperation in learning and of Namibia’s
teaching, at universities. Faculty of
The first Winter/Summer Humanities and
School dealt with structural Social Sciences
changes in small towns took part in
(Oranjemund in Namibia the project, as
and Herisau/Appenzell well as 3 young
in Switzerland). Thereby, professionals

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