Project Title: University Co-creation and Innovation Hub. Nigeria
About the Project: U-CoHUB is a university-fit ideation program designed to empower university undergraduates with skills as well as provide mentorship, leadership, global opportunities and technical support to help them become providers of solutions to real-life social and technical problems. The project will support creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation and provide opportunities for University Undergraduates to develop and showcase innovative ideas for social impact. It is expected that students who pass through this program will be able to create jobs via innovative solutions or as entrepreneurs.
Project Objectives:
- To align our curriculum with skills acquisition in IE.
- To identify the resources available to support the project within UNIMED.
- To establish a University Co-creation Hub (U-CoHUB) as a university-fit ideation program designed to furnish university undergraduates with skills in innovation and entrepreneurship.
- To foster the culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship within universities in Ondo State as well as facilitate the development of skills to establish medium and small-scale enterprises - industries, companies, products and services.
Partnership: Liverpool John Moores University, Institute of Health Humanities, University of Medical Sciences, Ondo and Entrepreneurship and Teenpreneurs Educational Foundation