{"id":325,"date":"2022-10-20T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/hamk-in-africa\/?p=325"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:47:34","slug":"student-post-digitalizing-cooking-in-rural-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/hamk-in-africa\/student-post-digitalizing-cooking-in-rural-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDENT POST: Digitalizing Cooking in Rural Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We are pleased to introduce our student challenge in Zambia in this blog but first let\u2019s introduce our team. We are four students representing HAMK in this collaborative <\/a>challenge with Aalto, Mulungushi and University of Zambia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janika <\/strong>is a second-year student of Bioeconomy Engineering. She has just started studies and this year she is taking the bioeconomy mandatory courses. Next year she has an opportunity to select studies what she is interested in. She is interested in climate change and circular economy. Bioeconomy education makes it possible for her to think about her interest from the perspective of digitalization. She is interested in how digitalization can help to create new innovations to circular economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HAMK students Janikka, Leena, Anni and Jaana<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hi, I\u2019m Leena. <\/strong>I started last year as a sustainable development student at HAMK, and on track to graduate at the end of year 2022. Last summer I graduated from Aalto University School of Business. Currently, I works full-time as a Sustainability Specialist, and I am interested in climate change adaptation and circular economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m Anni,<\/strong> a fourth-year sustainable development student and I plan to write my thesis and graduate in the spring of 2023. I am interested in Corporate Responsibility and Circular Economy. I am qualified nurse and worked in this field for a few years before coming back to study in my current degree programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello, I am Jaana,<\/strong> the last one from our team for this Challenge.  I am a third-year sustainable development student, interested in circular economy, waste and wastewater management as well as climate change mitigation and biodiversity loss. I currently work as an environmental inspector in my place of domicile and already hold a degree in Business Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now to the task ahead of us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge our team is working with is Digitalizing Cooking in Rural Africa by Afstor Oy<\/a>.<\/strong> The company have an innovative product named Afstor Solar Home and Cooker System. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n