MOOC “Urban Mobility in Africa”

Type of diploma

Follow-up certificate, possibility of paying certification fee of 60 euros (2 ECTS) for the 2020 and 2022 sessions

Target audience

Technicians in charge of transport and urban mobility projects
Senior managers and decision-makers
Students
Civil society, associations

Partners

CODATU
Senghor University
AFD Campus
Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
AUF
MobiliseYourCity

Key figures

2 training sessions in 2020 and 2022
More than 5,500 registered auditors

Periodicity

Replicable on demand
MOOC videos freely available on AFD’s platform: https://mooc-campus.afd.fr

Teaching device and method

Distance learning with the possibility of being delivered synchronously (opening a session on a training platform) or asynchronously.

The course videos are supplemented by pedagogical summaries, testimonial videos, documentary references, quizzes and exchange sessions with experts in the form of webinars in the context of synchronous training systems.

Since 2022, the course videos are available in English subtitled version, and the pedagogical summaries and bibliographical references are also available in English.

Pedagogical and technical means

Model

The course is divided into 5 teaching units (average duration 10 hours):

UE 1The challenges of urban mobility in African cities
UE 2Demand and supply: services, operators, regulation
UE 3Organising authorities and mobility planning
UE 4Financing sustainable urban mobility
UE 5Project management of urban mobility investment projects

Expected skills

Understand the challenges of urban mobility in African cities;
Characterise the supply of transport and demand for mobility in African cities, the actors that influence them, and their regulation;
Understand the functions of transport authorities, and in particular their importance in carrying out integrated transport and urban planning measures;
Assessing the appropriate funding mechanisms for different types of transport activity, projects and actors, and how they might evolve;
Assessing why, how and when to establish project ownership; assessing key issues and areas of concern from other cases.

Our training catalogue

Training

MOOC 'Electrification of paratransit services'

Formation à distance avec possibilité de décliner sous forme synchrone (ouverture d’une session sur une plateforme de formation), ou asynchrone. Pour chaque séquence, de 2 à 4 vidéos sont proposées par des experts du sujet pour présenter les principales connaissances et les retours d’expériences existant, ainsi que des cas d’études de villes du Sud. A ce jour, la formation est uniquement disponible en anglais (vidéos, évaluations et supports de suivi).

Training Dakar

"Road safety management" training

This short course is designed to raise awareness among professionals who have already invested in the subject, so there are no pre-requisites. It is a hybrid course: webinars with international experts are run on a weekly basis under the aegis of a local educational coordinator. Participants carry out group work which is presented at the end of the course.

Training

MOOC "Urban Mobility in Africa"

Distance learning, which can be delivered synchronously (by opening a session on a training platform) or asynchronously. The course videos are supplemented by teaching summaries, testimonial videos, documentary references, quizzes and discussion sessions with experts in the form of webinars as part of synchronous training systems. Since 2022, the course videos have been available with English subtitles, and the teaching summaries and bibliographical references are also available in English.

Training Lome

Master 2 "Transport and urban mobility in Africa"

Face-to-face teaching alternates between lectures given by teachers and experts at the Ecole Africaine des Métiers de l'Architecture et de l'Urbanisme in Lomé, and exercises and simulations. Field trips may be planned, and a work placement must be completed during the course, leading to the writing of a dissertation.

Master 2 "Transport and sustainable urban mobility"

Face-to-face teaching (and distance learning for some international teachers) alternating between lectures by teachers and experts, exercises and case studies. Field trips may be planned.