Joyful opening ceremony

- Mistra Urban Futures officially on track in Kisumu

In the presence of the Swedish Chargé d’affaires, the Mayor of Kisumu, representatives from the Kisumu municipality as well as the Minister for Local Government in Kenya and Vice Chancellor of the Bondo and Maseno University, the Kisumu Mistra Urban Futures office is officially opened at a celebrative event today.

The Kisumu local interaction platform has been in a build-up phase since 2011 and will now officially start some important research projects within the local area. Researchers from the Bondo and Maseno University together with researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and PhD students from University of Gothenburg (HDK, Academy of Design and Crafts, and School of Business, Economics and Law) will work together in the two flagship projects that have been started: Ecotourism and Marketplaces. a successful sustainable urban future. A global Arena provides for interaction with external actors and between the five cities.

Read more about the ceremony in the press release