KAMPALA – Makerere University, the oldest and biggest University in Uganda in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will host the Youth and Innovation Expo 2023.
Under the theme, “Fostering Innovation for Uganda’s Transformational Development”, the Expo is intended to showcase outstanding youth innovations and youth enterprise.
The much-anticipated Expo 2023 will be held on 6th and 7th October 2023 from 9:00am to 5:00pm at the Yusuf Lule Central Teaching Facility, Makerere University.
Makerere University is uniquely positioned to be a hub of many youth innovations through end-of-year course research projects. Together with UNDP, Makerere will showcase a number of youth innovations and youth start-ups that have successfully made the transition from research to commercial enterprises.
Through this exhibition, the university also hopes to create viable forward and backward linkages that will facilitate the creation of jobs and foster entrepreneurship by supporting access to an integrated mix of finance products, business management skills and market access to young women and men entrepreneurs and youth-owned MSMEs.
The Youth and Innovation Expo 2023 will bring on board a number of activations from its sponsors, Makerere@100 partners, University Internal and External partners such as MTN Uganda, Stanbic Uganda, Bank of Uganda, Absa Bank, Bank of Uganda to mention but a few.
The line-up of activations for the Expo include Masterclasses especially relevant for the youth and students, panel sessions involving regulatory and compliance institutions for innovators, an Art exhibition, a fashion show curated by Axarya Trends and the Margret Trowel School of Fine Art, a medical camp, Food vendor stalls, exhibitions from all ten colleges of the University and other University institutions to mention but a few.
The two-day event will consist of a very comprehensive, insightful, and engaging program with an opening ceremony, a student-inspired fashion show, curated performances from the school of Performing Arts and Film, a showcase of student innovations, exhibitions of Innovations turned enterprises from the Youth4Business program led by UNDP to mention but a few.
The Guest of Honour for the exhibition will be Rt. Hon. Thomas Tayebwa, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
The Youth and Innovation Expo 2023, conference program and master classes will broadcast live on all our social media platforms and various media platforms among the nation’s leading daily.
The Youth and Innovation Expo 2023 is being sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund and MTN Uganda with Start Hub Africa as the curator for all the knowledge sessions in the two-day Expo.
