The University of Lagos (UNILAG), on Monday, December 9, 2024, played host to a team from the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
Led by Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Charlotte Watts, the FCDO team was in UNILAG to assess its funded projects in the University namely: the Innovation to Market (I2M) project and Lancaster University Project on Entrepreneurship training .
The team began its activities with a courtesy visit to the University Management led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Folasade Ogunsola, OON, FAS.
While welcoming the team to UNILAG, Prof Ogunsola appreciated the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office for the confidence reposed in UNILAG which brought the projects, and assured of the University’s commitment to live up to its billings.
In her remarks, Prof. Charlotte Watts on behalf of the FCDO assured of its avowed commitment towards fostering collaborations with UNILAG. A development, she attributed to the milestones which UNILAG has recorded in its FCDO funded projects.
After the courtesy visit, the FCDO team settled down for an interaction with stakeholders of the Project Innovation to Market (I2M) and Lancaster University Project on Entrepreneurship training.
During the interactions, Professor Charlotte Watts expressed satisfaction with the implementation of both projects and appreciated the amount of efforts that have been put into their execution.
The Project I2M (Innovation to Market) under Innovation and Technology Management Office (ITMO) is led by Dr. Abiodun Gbenga-Ilori with a mission to foster an ecosystem which enables innovation and research from persons across Nigeria to achieve commercialization. It is also targeted at creating collaborations among Nigerian universities to improve higher research-to-commercialization in their institutions.
The second FCDO intervention which is led by Professor Uchenna Udeani is on improving entrepreneurship training in Nigerian universities. UNILAG is among the fourteen (14) universities pioneering the programme. The project is implemented by Lancaster University, Lancashire, England and its outputs could inform policies on entrepreneurship training by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
