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Home › Placements › Digital Micro-Tasking › Resilience Academy Internship — BLUE-ZAN Aquaculture Atlas (Zanzibar, 2026)
Running now 8 weeks full-time (40 hrs/week) — 17 August to 9 October 2026

Resilience Academy Internship — BLUE-ZAN Aquaculture Atlas (Zanzibar, 2026)

An eight-week, project-based internship where 15 SUZA students produce an openly-licensed geospatial "Aquaculture Atlas" of seaweed, crab and sea-cucumber farming sites along the Zanzibar coast — real data for the Blue Economy, real digital skills for youth.

15Students per run
2Enrolled now
8Weeks duration
52Lessons in placement

About this placement

An eight-week, project-based internship where 15 SUZA students produce an openly-licensed geospatial "Aquaculture Atlas" of seaweed, crab and sea-cucumber farming sites along the Zanzibar coast — real data for the Blue Economy, real digital skills for youth.

Courses & skills covered

This placement includes the following courses from the Resilience Academy training catalog.

BLUE-ZAN · Foundations: Blue Economy & Marine Context (Zanzibar) 0 lessons View course → BLUE-ZAN · Research Ethics, Safeguarding & Fieldwork Readiness 0 lessons View course → Getting started with QGIS 15 lessons View course → Geometries of geospatial data and basic statistics 0 lessons View course → Principles of Open Data 0 lessons View course → Introduction to participatory mapping 13 lessons View course → Location data collection using mobile devices 0 lessons View course → BLUE-ZAN · ODK Field Data Collection & Intertidal Survey Protocol 0 lessons View course → Data Curation and CRD Data Management 0 lessons · Beginner View course → Metadata 11 lessons · 27 hours · Beginner View course → Geospatial Data Quality 13 lessons · 12 hours · Beginner View course → Visualization of geospatial data and map making 0 lessons View course → Story mapping 0 lessons View course → BLUE-ZAN · Technical Reporting & Stakeholder Dissemination 0 lessons View course →

Impact & open data

Placements are hands-on: participants produce real geospatial data that is published openly to the Resilience Academy Climate Risk Database and reused by cities, universities and communities.

14Courses provided
52Lessons delivered
15Students per run
OpenData published to the CRD
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Placement history

1 year · 15 students placed to date.

202615 placed · ZAFIRI

Placement details

Duration8 weeks full-time (40 hrs/week) — 17 August to 9 October 2026
LocationZanzibar (Unguja): classroom at SUZA/TROCEN & ZAFIRI; fieldwork at Chwaka Bay, Uroa and Pongwe
Cohort size15 students
EligibilitySUZA undergraduates from BCS, BITAM & BAGES programmes; gender-balanced; selected & pre-trained by the SUZA RA coordinator
StipendFieldwork/office stipend — "safety, not salary", max €5/day (transport, lunch, internet)
CertificateIssued on completion
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Team involved

Massoud HamadRA Expert
Dr. Mary KhatibRA Coordinator
Khairiya MasoudRA Expert
Msilikale MsilangaRA Manager

Funders

University of TurkuCoordinators
State University of ZanzibarImplementing Partners

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