UNIVERSITY OUTREACH PROGRAM
Inspire upcoming talent, create innovative demand-driven solutions, and transform & upskill students with real-world challenges.
ABOUT
As one of our differentiated and unique niches creates a linkage between learning institutions and corporates, we seek to implement that through our University Outreach Program.
The key to building successful cooperation between universities and corporates lies in mutual respect for each player’s area of expertise. It’s also essential to understand early on the goals of the partnership on the academic side and how the results will be shared and used on the corporate side.
Behind the desire to build healthy learning, institutions-corporate collaborations lie that there are countless challenges to be tackled worldwide – whether in medicine, new technology, or science.
This program is an initiative to get universities more involved in innovation and technology entrepreneurship.
We seek to equip students with entrepreneurial skills related to
tech and innovation early on in the university, empower them with real-world
employable/job skills, and provide job attachments through partnering with corporates.
This gives them a chance for students to think about problems around them,
co-create innovative solutions, and develop business cases around these solutions.
ACTIVITIES OF THE PROGRAM
Training Sessions
Corporate hackathons
Spin-off programs
Boot camps
Design workshops
Career Festival
CASE STUDY
In 2020, we conducted the University Outreach program with the Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF.) We worked with universities: the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), St. Joseph University, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), and Ardhi University. We also had the following corporate partners: Vodacom Tanzania, Exim Bank, Deloitte, Standard Chartered, Boomplay, Slide Visuals, and Otapp.
PARTNERS
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