By providing adequate training and building stronger multi-disciplinary research capacities, UNILU, together with the local stakeholders, could make a significant contribution towards improving the sustainable socio-ecology situation in the Katangese Copperbelt Area.

The project is composed out of 6 sub-projects: (click on the projects to get a short presentation)

Intervention	Team Leader DR Congo	Team Leader Flanders	University FTL
Biodiversity and climate change	Basile Mujinya Bazirake	Pascal Boeckx	UGent
Environment and health	Salvius Bakari Amuri	Virginie Bito	UHasselt
Governance and security	Laurent Ngoy Ndjibu	Sara Geenen	UAntwerpen
Entrepreneurship	Pascal Sem Mbimbi	Nikolay Dentchev	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Climate smart agriculture for sustainable food systems	Florence Kampemba Mujinga	Geert Haesaert	UGent
Institutional capacity building	Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu	JM Rigo	UHasselt

More information on the project can be found here.