Objectives

Bring together industry players, entrepreneurs, researchers, innovators, higher education leaders, and development partners to share best practices and strategies for building strong networks and partnerships.
Showcase successful cases of academia-industry partnerships.
Provide a platform for sharing prospects for uptake and technology transfer and commercialization of research outputs and innovation.
Offer an opportunity for intensified regional linkages and networks among academia, industry players, policymakers, development partners, and societal stakeholders.
Offer an opportunity to the private Sector/Business Community to partner in facilitating regional integration through students’ mobility scholarships.

Expected Key Outputs

1. Report on generated strategies to strengthen Academia-Industry linkages and partnerships.

2. Established networks and linkage of like-minded industry players, the academic community, public stakeholders, and development partners supporting and working with IUCEA towards the achievement of the regional aspiration of improving youth employability.

Expected Outcomes

1. Enhanced linkages and partnerships between academia, industry and the public sector in the region

2. Improved skills development by institutions in partnership with relevant industries in the region

3. Increased opportunities for improved youth employability in the region.

Targeted Participants

Private sector/ Business Community, Innovators, Researchers, Innovation hubs/ incubators/, Entrepreneurs Support Organizations,Higher Learning Institutions, Students, Governments’ policy and decision-makers, EAC Secretariat and institutions (IUCEA, EABC & EASTECO), Development partners