UNWE Lecturers Shared Their Experience with Colleagues from Universities in Africa

Within the frameworks of the project Promoting Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship through Postgraduate Education in East Africa /ADVANCE/, funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, K2 – Capacity Building in Higher Education, UNWE lecturers – Chief Assist Dr. Antoan Shotarov, Project Head, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kamelia Asenova, senior researcher, together with lecturers from the University of Sannio, Italy and the University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania, had the opportunity to share their knowledge and experience with their colleagues from four African universities – two in Uganda and two in Tanzania.

The main objective of the project is to improve the social innovation and entrepreneurship in Uganda and Tanzania through the development and implementation of a new, competence-based postgraduate qualification programme at the four partner universities in the two African countries.

The meeting was hosted by the University of Sannio and the European partners in the project and representatives of the African universities had the opportunity to discuss and share knowledge as well as to transfer positive experience from the European universities for the development of new curricula and programmes.

The discussions were focused on the development of a new postgraduate qualification programme and teaching content on social innovation and entrepreneurship in collaboration with the local stakeholders in Uganda and Tanzania as well as building the capacity of local academic members to implement the new programme through the use of innovative teaching methodologies.