Study Tour to The Netherlands - Day 1

The first day of our study tour was really quite busy though it provided a very good insight for the whole study tour. The day started when we were on the air plane traveling over night to Brussels. We arrived in Brussels at around 6:30am and we took a bus to Radboud University in Nijmegen which took about two or so hours to get to. Radboud University is the main university we are visiting for this study tour and coordinating the whole study tour.

When we arrived at the university, we were right away taken for presentations about the whole overview about the study tour and we presented about the state of the several areas we were interested in including our expectations. After then, we had a quick interaction between the lecturers, professors and other Ugandan students at the university.

After lunch, we had a formal logic lecture with other undergraduate students at the university and it was really impressed to see how students are taught how to reason or prove obvious concepts however using mathematical modeling. According to the game, you have a set of rules through which all the logical thinking you can do on this planet can be proved. It was really an impressive experience!!

We then proceed to presentations of the researches being carried out by the Ugandan students here in the university and I was quick impressed again. Their researches are concentrated on involving the end-users and other stakeholders in building systems, models and choosing enterprise architecture i.e. using collaboration technology in the “how” of projects instead of just at the start and then at the end when the stakeholders complain that something isn’t working.

And that closed Day 1 of our study tour. Though it was tiring, I think it is really great and I can’t wait for the next days coming next.

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