New project to support sustainable enterprises

Mzuzu University (MZUNI) will implement a European Union funded research project Capacity Building for Sustainable Community-based Enterprise Development (SEED).

The SEED project aims at building the capacity among higher education institutions (HEIs) to support sustainable community-based enterprise development in the context of changing climate.

The project will mainly focus on building and reinforcing the capacity of higher education institutions in transformative climate change research and development.

MZUNI’s Principal Investigator Dr. Mavuto Tembo said the development supports MZUNI’s Strategic Plan especially Pillar 3 which is Research and Innovation.

“At the end of the three years, an accredited, sustainable and accessible teaching and training curricula will be developed based on micro-credentials for HEIs and communities. The micro-credentials will be delivered using traditional, blended or fully online methods,” he said.

Dr. Tembo said the delivery of value chain specific micro-credentials will help the communities improve efficiency of their value chains while adapting and mitigating the effects of climate change.

The project will be implemented in Malawi and Zambia by a consortium of Maynooth University (Ireland), IHF European non-profit (Brussels), University of Naples Federico II (Italy), MZUNI (Malawi), University of Livingstonia (Malawi) and Mulungushi and Kwame Nkrumah universities (Zambia).

Further information on SEED can be found at Maynooth University Department of Education.