Forty-Six University Lecturers Certified in VR/AR Teaching Methodologies

Certification ceremony marks an early national cascade milestone toward MaDE-for-UASs master-trainer targets

ETHIOPIA — 28 August 2025 — The MaDE-for-UASs consortium announced the certification of 46 university lecturers in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) teaching methodologies under European Union Erasmus+ CBHE Grant Agreement No. 101179337.

Certification recognises lecturers who completed intensive Training of Trainers pathways covering immersive foundations, instructional design, classroom facilitation, and peer-cascade commitments. The cohort seeds progress toward about 60 master trainers and capacity pathways for roughly 3,000 academic staff.

Certification essentials

What. 46 lecturers certified in VR/AR teaching methodologies.
When. August 2025.
Why it matters. Seeds campus-to-campus cascade of immersive practice.

A certificate is not the product—the product is a colleague trained next door next month.
— ToT cascade principle · MaDE-for-UASs

About MaDE-for-UASs

MaDE-for-UASs (Methodology and Didactic Education for Universities of Applied Sciences) is a three-year (2024–2027) capacity-building action co-funded by the European Union under Erasmus+ CBHE, Grant Agreement No. 101179337. Coordinated by Kotebe University of Education with Dire Dawa University as co-coordinator, the consortium unites Ethiopian implementing partners and European universities of applied sciences (Hochschule Heilbronn, TH OWL, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano). The project modernises applied-science teaching through immersive didactics, dual national centres, open tools, a master-trainer cascade, and the National Resonance Group. Headline targets include 50,000+ students, about 3,000 academic staff, five or more practice-oriented courses, and about 60 master trainers.

Media contacts

Project Secretariat / Communications

MaDE-for-UASs · Kotebe University of Education (Coordinator)

Phone: +251 911 661514

madeeu@kue.edu.et

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Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. Project MaDE-for-UASs · Grant Agreement No. 101179337.