TURKANA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SHINES AT GLOBAL EDUCATION AWARD 2025
3i’s Project team celebrates winning the 2025 Global Education Award for Transformative Pedagogy.
Turkana University College is proud to announce that the 3is (Impactful, Inclusive, Integrated) Higher Education in Eastern Africa Project has won the prestigious Global Education Award at the International Conference on Transformative Education 2025, hosted by the Global Citizen Foundation. Recognized under the Transformative Pedagogy Category, this award reaffirms TUC’s leadership in promoting accessible, community-centered, and inclusive higher education across Eastern Africa.
The 3i’s team during the WP5 Workshop on Community and Industry Embedding held in Turkana University College
In addition to these achievements, Turkana University College recently hosted the Work Package 5 (WP5) Workshop on Community and Industry Embedding under the 3iS Project. The four-day workshop brought together local and international partners to explore best practices in University Community Engagement, strengthen institutional strategies, and enhance experiential learning through field visits within Turkana County. This event further underscored TUC’s commitment to integrating community-centered approaches into higher education.
Members of the 3i’s team pose for a group photo during the 3is Project Closing Event held at the University of Gondar from 6–7 November 2025.
The 3is Project Closing Ceremony was held at the University of Gondar from 6-7 November 2025, bringing together project partners, faculty, and key stakeholders to celebrate the successful culmination of the three-year initiative. The event highlighted the project’s achievements in enhancing impactful, inclusive, and integrated higher education across Eastern Africa. Participants reflected on the milestones reached, shared lessons learned, and discussed opportunities for sustaining the project’s outcomes beyond its formal completion. The ceremony also underscored the strong collaboration among partner institutions and reaffirmed their commitment to continued regional cooperation in advancing transformative education.
The 3is Project is a transformative regional initiative strengthening higher education systems across Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Europe. Through collaborative teaching innovations, institutional capacity building, and community-centered approaches, the project works to make higher education more responsive, equitable, and relevant to local and regional development needs.
Over its implementation period, the 3is project has achieved remarkable milestones. It has facilitated networks and collaborations between higher education institutions to formalize long-term academic partnerships; supported over 20 staff mobilities through Erasmus+ programmes, enhancing cross-border learning and knowledge exchange; and generated multiple joint research proposals and institutional frameworks inspired by 3is methodologies. The project has also strengthened community engagement practices by documenting the cultural, social and economic realities of target communities, highlighting contemporary gaps and marginalization, and emphasizing the importance of integrating indigenous epistemologies into modern higher education systems.
Members of the 3i’s team during the closing ceremony held at the University of Gondar.
As a forward-looking legacy of the project, the Ateker Futures Cross-Border University Network (AFCUN) has emerged as a key future endeavor. AFCUN seeks to sustain and expand the collaborative spirit of 3is by bringing together universities across the Ateker region to promote joint research, student and staff exchanges, curriculum co-creation, and community-driven innovations. The network aims to deepen regional integration, elevate indigenous knowledge systems, and empower borderland communities through inclusive higher education pathways. AFCUN represents the next phase in building a resilient, interconnected, and culturally grounded higher education ecosystem in Eastern Africa.