In 2008, the University of Zurich (UZH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Makerere University in Uganda (MAK). The partnership with MAK is in the focus of the North-South Cooperation which aims to establish sustainable institutional partnerships African universities.
The agreement laid the foundations for long-term cooperation in teaching and research and including arrangements for the bilateral mobility of students and instructors. Since 2008, numerous collaborative projects in the fields of human medicine, veterinary medicine, applied ethics, social anthropoloy, linguistics amongst others have been implemented.
Read more at http://www.int.uzh.ch/northsouth/partner_en.html
Joint symposiums and workshops have also been organised http://www.uzh.ch/news/articles/2014/symposium-uganda_en.html