Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education - Ref. number: 101178404
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Project Objectives:

The ADVANCE project aims to enhance social innovation and entrepreneurship in Uganda and Tanzania by developing and implementing a new competence-based post-graduate programme in partner universities in Uganda and Tanzania, in cooperation with local stakeholders and based on the methodologies of service-learning and experiential learning.

The specific objectives include:

  • Develop a competence profile of a social entrepreneur
  • Develop a new post-graduate curriculum (30 ECTS), learning content and mentorship schemes in social innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Develop and implement in the Ugandan and Tanzanian partner universities a quality management system for the new programme
  • Build capacity of academic staff at the partner universities in Uganda and Tanzania to deliver the new post-graduate programme 
  • Create physical and virtual environment conducive to the implementation of the new programme and pilot the programme in Ugandan and Tanzanian partner universities
  • Provide access to high quality open educational resources in the field of social innovation and entrepreneurship to local stakeholders in the partner countries

Partners

The ADVANCE project is implemented by a consortium of 10 partner organizations, including 7 universities, joined by 3 non-academic partners.

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Results

The ADVANCE project will support the establishment of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Learning Centres at the African partner universities.

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Target groups

Management, administrative, and academic staff in the partner institutions. Local stakeholders & higher education accreditation bodies in Uganda and Tanzania

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Activities

Knowledge and experience sharing webinars, Stakeholder surveys and consultation meetings, Awareness-raising campaigns and Project conferences,

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ADVANCE Programme

Postgraduate Diploma in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: fully accredited one-year experiential study programme, delivered by four universities in cooperation with civil society organizations and business development stakeholders in Uganda and Tanzania.

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Project Partners