Africa-Press – Ethiopia. The Second Forum of the Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities in Africa will be held in Addis Ababa from 10-11th of October 2023.
The theme of the Forum is Advancing Entrepreneurship through Education with a special focus on “Towards one million start-ups and 100 billion USD in revenues in a decade”.
The first Forum of the Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities was held in December 2022 and looked at Promoting Entrepreneurship through Education for a Stronger Recovery.
The second Forum will explore actions, mechanisms, policies and strategies needed to empower African universities to inspire their communities of researchers, students and other staff to generate one million startups and 100 billion USD in revenues.
The university community in Africa has over 15 million students and about one million lectures and researchers supported by another one million administrative and technical staff.
Therefore, it is a large fast-growing population of increasingly educated and globally-engaged people in the prime of their lives, according the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
“To achieve this ambitious goal, embracing entrepreneurship should not left to a few university cases but rather by the wider higher education sector,” ECA stressed.
It also requires a transformation of university internal and external processes to stimulate and support the entrepreneurship mission, similar to those that support teaching and research missions.
The main theme is to encourage and support universities to put in place institutional arrangement that enable universities to promote “Entrepreneurship through Education.”
The overall objective of the Forum is to encourage universities to promote, nurture and drive entrepreneurship and business development in teaching, research and outreach.
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