AgriENGAGE
Project: AgriENGAGE - Strengthening Agri-Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement Training in East, West and North Africa
Involved UNIPV structure: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali
UNIPV Team: Prof. Maria Sassi
Total Budget: € 999.291,00
UNIPV Budget: € 130.555,00
Project duration: 15/01/2021 - 14/01/2024
Cordinator: Egerton University - Kenya
Full Partners:
University of Pavia - Italy, University of Copenhagen - Denmark, Pwani University - Kenya, Gulu University - Uganda, Uganda Martyrs University - Uganda, Regional Universities Forum For Capacity Building In Agriculture - Uganda, Université d'Abomey-Calavi - Benin, Université Nationale d'Agriculture - Benin, University mohammed vi polytechnic - Morocco, Institut Agronomique Et Vétérinaire Hassan Ii - Morocco
Description:
AgriENGAGE aims at strengthening HEIs to provide excellent training programmes in Agri-entrepreneurship and Community Engagement responsive to evolving labour market demands to stimulating agricultural transformation and enhanced agricultural sector competitiveness. The specific objectives of the project are:
- Increasing the availability of updated Agri-entrepreneurial and Community Engagement Training programs;
- Enhancing teaching competences related to business development services and community engagement in the partner universities’ academic staff;
- Training students skilled in demand driven agri-entrepreneurship, agribusiness development services and community engagement;
- Enhancing collaboration between universities and industry.
In overall, AgriENGAGE has served to;
- Share experiences with African and European partners.
- Internally, regionally and internationally refresh Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) training approaches, methodologies and aspirations as part of enhancing quality as well as increasing internationalization of curricular and training experiences; and
- Escalate the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) - industry linkages including linkage communities for better experiential learning.
