AgrGROW is a partnership between agro-High Education Institutions (HEI) in Malawi (MW), Uganda (UG), Denmark (DK), Finland (FIN) and the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) for transformation of agro- entrepreneurship (agropreneurship) education. Based on the experiences of the consortia members, research done in partner HEIs and confirmed by the literature findings and policy documents, the lack of entrepreneurial mind-set hinders graduates` employability and prevents their capacity to employ or become entrepreneurs themselves.
AgrGROW seeks to reposition MW and UG HEIs to be transformational actors in creating a generation of graduates who can start and grow climate-smart agribusinesses, especially female graduates. This will impactfully address climate change concerns, as well as economic issues related to the underdevelopment of the agricultural sector and youth unemployment. This improved capacity will allow the project`s impact to accelerate sustainably after project completion, especially because of the creation of HEI and agri-stakeholder networks
- Utilization of new climate- smart agro-entrepreneurship curricula with incorporation metacognitive competencies.
- Improved student-centered teaching and learning methods by introducing problem-based learning, climate-smart agriculture and innovative entrepreneurship training.
- Actively cooperating network-based learning ecosystem with academia and societal/industry partners in East and South African context.
- Students benefitting from the PBL- teaching methods and participating to the contextualized PBL-methodology development.
- Strengthened HEI capacity to further contextualize and develop curricula, pedagogical methodology and learning ecosystems through national and international partnership
- Curricula update/development on agropreneurship;
- HEIs’ faculty and teacher capacity building on PBL incl. ODL as well as for development of knowledge, skills, perspectives, and values related to agri-business sustainability;
- creation of functional university-industry collaboration for the authentic learning environment; and
- contextualization of the methodology through student field pilots/challenges for skills development.
- Bugema University
- Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Makerere University
- Malawi University of Science and Technology
- KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET (UCPH)