OBREAL, with member THENSA, was joined by partners of the UniiCoCreate project at the virtual conference of UEED Africa (Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa), for a virtual panel discussion on Entrepreneurial Universities.
The session marked the first public activity of the project, which is an important Erasmus+ Strand 3 Capacity Building for Higher Education project that involves ministries and universities from South Africa, Losotho, Eswatini and Namibia. The project is an extension of the previous project that THENSA and OBREAL led – ‘HERESA’ – which enabled a network of higher education reform experts in universities of technology in South Africa.
The panel highlighted the need for ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’ at the level of HEI, which entails not only provides entrepreneurship training (through transversal modules, internships and access to incubators) to greater numbers of students across disciplines, but also including universities in rural areas in this process, as they need to define locally feasible and relevant entrepreneurship in what are often less favorable conditions.
UniiCoCreate is an important OBREAL project in the SADC region, to which the SADC Secretariat is associated. It furthers the work and advocacy of the association regarding universities as motors for development.
