The Renewable Energy Research Group (RERG) in the Department of Physics, Makerere University, organised a workshop in Solar Energy Installation & Basic Electronics (4th Workshop on Solar Energy Installation (Photovoltaic) & Basic Electronics) and this was held on 10th-14th August 2015. The East African Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUMP) Summer School was hosted by the Department of Mathematics in July 2015. The summer school Participants of the summer school were postgraduate students drawn from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Lesotho, UK, Sweden and Zambia. Lecturers facilitating the school came from the region as well as Sweden, UK and other countries.