The fruitful collaboration between CREC International and Mwenge Catholic University continues. Two years since its last session in Tanzania, CREC returned to the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro to provide a series of workshops on Safeguarding & Communication, Artificial Intelligence, and Science & Society.
Seán-Patrick Lovett conducted six meetings on Safeguarding & Communication. These saw the participation of over six hundred people, including students, professors, university staff and priests from the local diocese.
The sessions with the academic community were held on the University campus in Moshi. The workshop with priests, specifically requested and sponsored by the local bishop, His Excellency Ludovick Minde, was held at the Moshi bishopric. About one hundred and fifty priests attended.
Andrea Micozzi conducted four sessions on the impact of Artificial Intelligence. These were attended by over two hundred students from the IT and Physics Departments. They too were held on the University campus, some of them in the new science building, built with funds made available by the Italian Bishops Conference (and with the mediation of CREC Vice president, Seán-Patrick Lovett).
Andrea also provided three sessions on Science & Society, attended by over one hundred students and professors. This resulted in a concrete commitment to collaborate in fostering student exchanges between Italy and Tanzania, and in procuring computers for the University, which severely lacks IT resources.
Working meetings were also held with the faculty of Moshi University, the university management, and the Bishop of Moshi diocese.
CREC member, Athanas Sing’ambi, who is Public Relations Manager for Mwenge Catholic University, was Project Manager and overall organizer of the sessions, and to him go the grateful thanks of CREC trainers, Seán-Patrick Lovett and Andrea Micozzi.
