Background Funding opportunity description: Makerere University received special funding from the Government of the Republic of Uganda, to support high impact Research and Innovations that will accelerate national development. The Financial Year 2022/24 is the fifth year of this fund’s availability. The fund illustrates the increasing importance that the Government attaches to Research and Innovation […]
Makerere University Intellectual Property (IP) Management Office has urged researchers to register their IP and commercialise their innovations. The Office Manager Canon Goddy Muhumuza and Administrator Peter Eneru were on Friday 20th October, 2023 meeting staff and researchers in the College of Computing and Information Sciences. The blended meeting held physically and online attracted over […]
The Makerere University Innovations Hub which was recently established with funding from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is set to start driving commercialization of innovations and enterprises resulting from the research undertaken by scholars at Makerere University. Speaking during a press briefing on March 23, 2023, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, said the hub […]
PROVISION OF TRAINING SERVICES TO THE PESCA (PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE COMMERCIAL AQUACULTURE IN UGANDA) PROJECT A. BACKGROUND The Department of Zoology, Entomology, and Fisheries Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, was awarded a contract under the European Union-funded project: Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Commercial Aquaculture (PESCA) for the provision of training services. The overall objective […]
A study conducted by researchers from the School of Economics, College of Business and Management Sciences (CoBAMS) has revealed that commercialization of Maize and Cassava is still low in the country. The findings are an outcome of a year-long study on commercialization of Agriculture in Uganda. The research was conducted by Dr. Susan Kavuma and […]