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Education, research, and community partnerships

Build the future of Afaan Oromoo with us.

Afaan Oromoo School is a shared platform for universities, schools, churches, nonprofits, associations, researchers, and funders to publish courses, deliver programs, support research, sponsor opportunity, and expand access.

Host coursesBring your institution’s teaching onlineFund accessSponsor learners, research, or programsResearch togetherStudy language, literacy, culture, and learning
A global Afaan Oromoo ecosystemInstitutions connect. Knowledge moves. Language grows.
More than an institutional portal

A place to teach, research, fund, and build together.

Partnerships can begin with one course, one research question, one sponsored cohort, one archived oral history, or one faculty-led program—and grow around evidence, trust, and shared responsibility.

Who can partner

One ecosystem, many kinds of institutions.

The right partnership depends on the people you serve and the contribution your institution is ready to make.

01

Universities and colleges

Universities in the United States, Ethiopia, and worldwide can host faculty-created courses, sponsor language access, support research, and create supervised student opportunities.

02

Schools in Ethiopia

Primary, secondary, preparatory, language, and teacher-training schools can publish locally grounded courses and extend programs beyond the classroom.

03

Schools and districts abroad

Public, private, charter, weekend, and heritage-language programs can run structured cohorts for students and families in the diaspora.

04

Churches and faith communities

Faith communities can support family language, cultural connection, and community classes through adult-managed enrollment and access.

05

Nonprofits, associations, and cultural organizations

Mission-driven organizations can deliver community programs, preserve knowledge, sponsor learners, and connect local teaching to a global audience.

06

Research centers, foundations, and sponsors

Partners can support language documentation, literacy, teacher preparation, scholarships, research, and shared education infrastructure with defined outcomes.

How we can work together

Start with a concrete goal. Build the right model around it.

Each partnership is scoped through a written agreement. We do not promise access, outcomes, data, publication, or recognition until responsibilities and safeguards are clear.

01

Publish and host courses

Your instructors create and remain responsible for their teaching. We provide course-authoring tools, documented review, publication, enrollment, protected delivery, and accountable records.

Institution-created coursesQuality reviewPublic or partner-linked access
02

Run programs and private cohorts

Create a focused program for a school, university, association, church, or community group with approved staff access, schedules, enrollment boundaries, and scoped reporting.

Cohort deliveryAuthorized staffProgram reporting
03

Sponsor access and opportunity

Fund scholarships, school pilots, teacher production, research, or shared infrastructure. Agreements define beneficiaries, budgets, reporting, and recognition without advertising to children.

ScholarshipsSponsored cohortsProgram investment
04

Collaborate on research

Develop faculty-led studies, student capstones, field research, curriculum evaluation, or language-technology work with clear ethics, consent, privacy, and community-benefit requirements.

Faculty researchStudent projectsLanguage technology
05

Create student pathways

Design supervised internships, practicums, thesis projects, service learning, and research experiences that contribute useful work while respecting learner privacy and community knowledge.

CapstonesPracticumsSupervised research
06

Preserve and strengthen knowledge

Work together on oral history, terminology, curriculum, teacher development, archives, storytelling, and cultural learning with explicit attribution and content-rights agreements.

Language preservationTeacher developmentCultural knowledge
Academic and community research

Research with responsibility.

We welcome faculty-led research, student capstones, field studies, curriculum evaluation, and language-technology collaboration. Research access is never automatic: projects need a defined purpose, appropriate consent, privacy protection, community benefit, and institutional review where required.

Discuss a research partnership
A practical way to begin

Start with a focused pilot.

A strong ecosystem grows through useful work, clear accountability, and relationships that can last.

  1. 01

    Share the goal

    Tell us who you serve, where you work, and whether the priority is teaching, research, sponsorship, preservation, or a combined program.

  2. 02

    Design the partnership

    Define responsibilities, audience, curriculum, technology, funding, data boundaries, rights, timeline, and measures of success.

  3. 03

    Review the safeguards

    Confirm instructional quality, privacy, child-safety boundaries, research ethics, accessibility, and operational ownership before launch.

  4. 04

    Launch and learn

    Begin with a focused pilot, review evidence together, and expand only when the program is useful, responsible, and sustainable.

Universities · schools · communities · funders

What could your institution help make possible?

Tell us the challenge, community, program, or research question you care about. We will help determine whether there is a responsible partnership to build.

Begin a partnership