The project will cross-cut several general and regional priorities. Sustainable growth and jobs, especially enhancing employment opportunities by narrowing the competence miss-match between what is taught at HEIs and what is required in the world of work and enhancing entrepreneurial education, are in the core of the project. Green Deal, environment and fight against climate change are addressed through embedding climate-smart agriculture in the curricula, covering skills and knowledge needed for sustainable agricultural value chains, and on innovating sustainable practices within agricultural as well as other business sectors. The project will contribute to digital transformation through trusting online tools in teacher training and through producing digital teaching / learning materials.
The overall AgrBIZZ objective is to contribute to both nations’ national development through social development and by increasing the employability and entrepreneurial mindset of the graduates. The specific objectives are
- Revised climate-smart, competence-based agri-entrepreneurship curricula,
- Improved student-centred teaching and learning methods by capacitating the faculty and the staff in problem-based learning, climate-smart agriculture, and innovative entrepreneurship education,
- A collaborative learning ecosystem created with academia and industry/societal partners,
- Students’ benefitting from the PBL-teaching methods and participating to the contextualized PBL-methodology development, and
- Strengthened HEI capacity to further contextualize and develop curricula, pedagogical methodology and learning ecosystems through national and international partnerships.
- Häme University of Applied Sciences
- University of Bamenda
- University of Buea
- University of Cape Coast
- University of Development Studies
- University of Copenhagen
- Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)