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In preparation to October fest the University is holding several exhibitions to show case their innovations and impact several projects have benefited the entire community.
The university has been implementing research and Innovations funded by government under Makerere university research and Innovations Fund.
” Its with pleasure that we invite you to be part of the engagement where research and innovation outputs that our researchers have worked on, developed and produced using funding from the Government of the Republic of Uganda will be shared, discussed and showcased in several exhibitions we shall be holding college per college. This funding is being received by Makerere University through the Research and Innovations Fund (RIF),”Kakumba said.
According to him, the fund supports the generation and translation of high impact Research and Innovations to drive Uganda’s Development Agenda.
According to Umar, Since Financial Year 2019/20, the fund has supported and is supporting 587 multidisciplinary research and innovation projects across the various colleges at Makerere University including Makerere University Business School (MUBS). Specifically, the College of Health Sciences has obtained 174 grants across the two financial years.
“It is upon this background that the Mak-RIF office in collaboration with Makerere University College of Health Sciences (CHS) is organizing an Open Day to showcase some of the outputs that have arisen from the different research and innovation projects in line with objective 2 of the Fund. This is the engagement to which you are invited, “Kakumba said.
Over 39 projects were show cased to stakeholders participating physically at the exhibition at College of Health Sciences Deans Gardens and presentations at the Davis Lecture Theatre.
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