The joint Curricula, innovative and adaptive postgraduate program on tropical agroecosystem-based resilience developed by a consortium consisting of five local partner universities and four EU and UK universities will provide a unique opportunity for local and international students to gain much-needed exposure and training on building resilience in tropical agroecosystems. It will provide a platform for the latest teaching and learning opportunities along with high-impact research experiences from EU and UK partner universities.
The students will get the opportunity to be part of a field and practical based international master programme taught by local, EU and UK teaching staff with exposure to an international and multicultural educational environment. They will get exposure to European and the UK good practices (learning and teaching tools, methodologies and didactic approaches including learning outcomes and ICT-based practices) in agro-ecosystem education.The programme will be accessible to a larger number of students both local and international as it will be offered via a MOOCs platform. Moreover, local students will be able to earn a qualification offered by an international consortium of partner universities while being in Sri Lanka.
The BRITAE Postgraduate Program will form the basis for using ecosystem-based approaches to develop novel strategies to adapting to rapid change and reduce risk to build resilience in food systems, which is the need of the hour. There is a strong need in the agriculture sector to adopt a more interdisciplinary approach to overcome climate change hazards to ensure food security through building sustainable and resilient agribusinesses. In this respect, well trained human resources on ecosystem-based principles and practices are indispensable as such this programme will help to bridge this gap and provide the much needed human resources for the industry.
