The Responsible Innovation Label was awarded to the UEMF for the project led by Pr. Mustapha Bennouna: "Sustainable UEMF Program"
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The Responsible Innovation Label was awarded to the UEMF during its first edition 2020/2021, for the project "Sustainable UEMF Program".
UEMF INNOVATION LABEL CERTIFICATE
The Responsible Innovation Label is intended for higher education and research establishments, private or public, members of the AUF. Its objective is twofold: to map and promote the responsible innovations of universities and to deploy the responsible innovation network to promote synergies between universities, civil society and the socio-economic sector working for the development of a responsible society. label meets several challenges:
- Identify responsible innovations generated by universities in order to promote and develop them;
- Strengthen the capacities and skills in SDGs/SSE of the Francophonie network;
- Organize support for French-speaking universities wishing to innovate responsibly;
- Train and support researchers, staff, students and teachers of French-speaking universities in responsible innovation and its social and environmental impact;
- Generate new partnerships and new resources around responsible innovation within the network of French-speaking universities
- Participate in the emerging ODD/ESS dynamic in the university world and develop it.
The advantages of the Label for higher education and research establishments :
- Be an active establishment;
- Attract more students, teachers and researchers;
- Mobilize new funders;
- Gain local and international visibility around the SDGs and the SSE;
- Build a strong brand image of meaning: “responsible” university “committed to sustainable development”;
- Access national and international, public and private funding;
Up skills :
- Developing the university: training and partnerships;
- Being in contact with responsible innovation actors locally and internationally;
- Access technical or financial support from the AUF for the actors involved;
- Access the network and tools of the ACTIF system;
- Positioning itself as a player in responsible innovation;
- Be an actor and operator in the sustainable development of societies;
- Be an actor and operator of responsible and sustainable innovation, SDGs and SSE.
