Arba Minch University and units of Lund University, Sweden, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). From Lund, these are the Unit of Environment, Society and Health (Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine) and the Unit of Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology (Department of Design Sciences). From Arba Minch University, this are the Arba Minch Water Technology Institute (of which I am part) and the School of Public Health.
I came into contact with representatives of Lund University through their co-organized international conference in Addis Ababa “Together for cleaner air in Ethiopia”. From how Lund University presented itself, and how I presented air quality work in Arba Minch, there is a mutual interest in cooperation on the field of air pollution. While the MOU is phrased in general terms, air pollution will be the initial field of cooperation.