Managing Non-Academic Impact of Research: Capacity Building for Impact Training

WIOMSA in collaboration with the Chalmers University of Technology of Sweden held the 3rd and final workshop in a series of trainings on Capacity Building for Impact at the Pride Inn Paradise in Mombasa, Kenya on 18-20 August 2016. The workshops aim at strengthening the capacity for development of strategies and activities for research impact in the Western Indian Ocean. Previous workshops targeted mariculture specialists to facilitate them ahead of the commissioned call for proposal and heads of academic institutions and organisations involved in research. The third workshop exclusively targeted WIOMSA’s Marine Science for Management (MASMA) Programme grantees. A team of 1-3 participants including Principal Investigators represented each MASMA research project at the training. The interactive and thought-provoking approach used in the workshop gave project teams the opportunity to do practical assessments of the impact of their respective research projects and to apply, tested frameworks and tools and methodologies for managing impact of research.