- HGU held a four day workshop on Appropriate Technology-based Entrepreneurship Training in Tanzania.
- ATET will serve as a hub for economic self reliance in Tanzania by establishing the Innovation Technology Center.
From November 9 to 12, 2015, HGU established the Tanzania Innovative Technology & Entrepreneurship Center (TITEC) at the United African University of Tanzania and hosted the Appropriate Technology-based Entrepreneurship Training (ATET).
TITEC and ATET were hosted by HGU for UNESCO-UNITWIN and as part of the green appropriate technology development and dissemination of the UNESCO UNITWIN Project. The Project supports job creation for undergraduate students and local people based on appropriate technology and development of local society through community enterprise dissemination.
The participants in this workshop were 45 students from the United African University of Tanzania, 15 village leaders from the Tanzania Saemaul Movement, 68 teachers from Dongshin Technology School, Congressmen, and journalists. The entire group completed the workshop. The best projects included a chick hatching machine business, a cashew nut processing village enterprise, and the production of molded coconut charcoal. These winners will be supported by UNESCO UNITWIN.
HGU is expected to serve as the hub for the economic self-reliance of Tanzania by hosting ATET Workshops and by assisting development projects led by local people. In addition, HGU will dispatch student interns through the free semester system which will begin next semester. Joint research with students of the United African University of Tanzania will begin as well. The student interns will be responsible to develop the projects and provide technology support.
The ATET workshop shared the economic growth of Korea, entrepreneurship, appropriate technology and business, development of business items, designing business models, guidelines for writing workplans, and reporting work. For three nights and four days, practical ways to implement the projects were promoted. The training included selecting the business item, promoting the business and the feasibility test.
President Soon Heung Chang said, “Through regular ATET workshops, regional pre-businessman will be nurtured. At the same time, technology-based businessmen will be nurtured to create sustainable profits on a mid and long term basis. This workshop will contribute to nurturing future leaders who will take the lead in national development.”
Since 2008, HGU has been implementing various joint projects with developing countries such as the Global Engineering Project, the joint Project on Science and Technology Supporting Organizations, the Global Engagement & Mobilization Project, the Engineering Design Academy for 90% of the marginalized people, the Creative Design Competition for the 90% marginalized, the UNESCO UNITWIN Program, and the Nepal Innovative Technology Hub Center Projects.
