Sustainable Development and Green and Digital Enterprises Innovations

Description

Institution

Hetaved Skills Academy for Innovations and Entrepreneurship
Organizations/areas of the university involved

Hetaved Skills Academy for Innovations and Entrepreneurship in public and private partnership with universities and polytechnics in Nigeria and Africa towards research and studies programs in sustainable development and Green/Digital Enterprises innovations for achieving the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda

Country
Nigeria

This initiative is focusing on research and study programs on Green and Digital concepts towards gender – women and youths empowerment for sustainable poverty , extreme hunger, climate change and social injustices eradication, It highlights areas of gender friendly Green and Digital Enterprises Innovations for sustainable living and development. 

Sustainable Development and Green and Digital Enterprises Innovations, is a research and course of studies concept designed towards Gender -youths and women empowerment. It focuses on areas of sustainable development such as Gender friendly innovation for social economic empowerment towards poverty, extreme hunger, social injustices and  climate change eradication. 

 This initiative tries to harness the power of innovation and creativity towards new designs and solutions that are gender friendly in nature for checking unemployment, climate change, vices and violence extremism among the idle and marginalized youths and women in Africa. This research program and course of studies has been adopted by many universities in Nigeria including- Federal University of Technology, Effurun, Delta state, Nigeria, National Open University of Nigeria-NOUN, Delta state university of Science and Technology, Ozoro, Nigeria, University of Delta state, Agbor, Nigeria, etc.

Presently, we are in partnership with the SDG Academy USA as well as endorsed by the African Union-AU as a TVET Education innovation for Africa.

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Results and impact measured or expected

Sustainable Development and Green and Digital Enterprises Innovations, is well designed as a new research and studies program for all under graduate as well as graduate programs in most universities in Nigeria and Africa due to the urgent need for new Green and Digital solutions for advancing the SDGs and for Covid-19 Social Economic recovery.

During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, we innovated on the online and virtual studies on this program. And so far, we have recorded over TWO MILLION (2,000,000) subscribers as trainees as potential Green and Digital Innovators and Entrepreneurs in partnership with public and private universities.

Connection with the SDG framework

Sustainable Development and Green and Digital Enterprises Innovations as a program for research and studies could catalyze new thinking and methodology in concentrating efforts towards sustainable development through positive advancement in Gender Friendly initiatives. The urgent need in this direction to closing the gap of injustices, climate change and social injustices is an interesting subject that is already attracting a lots of interests among the academia.

Thus, more national, regional and global partnership are needed to scale up research and study programs in this dimension especially in providing new solution towards Covid-19 Global social economic Recovery.

We are ready to offer our rich resources in this regards towards a robust global partnership for university education in sustainable development.

Barriers and follow up

In scaling Sustainable Development and Green and Digital Enterprises Innovations, we have encountered barriers such as:

  1. No physical meet up during Covid-19 lockdown. This was adequately handled and overcome through innovations in digital and social media technology and communication channels like Whatsapps, Telegram, Google class, Facebook live, Zoom etc.
  2. Lack of funding to meet up with the high demand for this studies programs as especially towards empowering the needy students with digital tools for coping with virtual studies.

Transferability of the initiative

Sustainable Development and Green and Digital Enterprises Innovations research and studies program has the potentials for national, regional and global scale-up. This is so because we have now innovated on 100 percent online and 100 percent offline studies and research of this program. Thus, it could be accessed globally for replication and duplication without much problem.