Department of Geosciences and Geography of the University of Helsinki has received funding from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (Finnish National Agency for Education HEI-ICI programme) for a project "TAITAGIS - Improving capacity, quality and access of Geoinformatics teaching, research and daily application in Taita Taveta County, Kenya". TAITAGIS project aims to develop Master’s degree programme in Geoinformatics for the young under and postgraduate students at the Taita Taveta University (TTU) in Kenya (partner HEI), and building teachers capacity through Training of Trainers (ToT) education in Geoinformatics.