NEWS:

4 Apr, 2016


Innovation Scholars Programme
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in conjunction with Michigan State University’s Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI), with funding from Unites States Agency for International Development (USAID), established an innovation hub at Bunda campus, LUANAR. The hub is aimed at creating space for innovative thought, focused on solving local food system problems.

Through the Innovation Hub, GCFSI and LUANAR is unveiling an exciting opportunity to become an innovative scholar. The Innovation Scholars Program (ISP) is an innovative, 12-month faculty / academic leadership development program, which will serve as a catalyst to advance the overarching objective of LUANAR’s Innovation Hub to support food system innovation that supports food security, and develop the current and next generation of entrepreneurial scientists and leaders in Malawi and beyond. The program is modelled after MSU’s Academy for Global Engagement—a successful, field-tested faculty development program—yet targeted for innovation and contextual challenges.

LUANAR and MSU are therefore organising a series of sessions, to give you an opportunity to know more about the programme, before a call for applications is advertised on 8th April, 2016. The sessions will take place on Friday, 1st April as follows:
















Faculty/ AdministratorLocationTime
Development Studies,Bunda CampusAquaculture conference room 9.30am –10.30am
Agriculture,Bunda Campus Aquaculture conference room 10.30am – 11.30am
Food and Human Sciences,Bunda CampusAquaculture conference room 11.30am – 12.30pm
Environmental Sciences,Bunda campus Aquaculture conference room 12.30pm – 13.30pm
VC, DVC, Registrar, Deans, Directors, Coordinators, all Deputies PCO9.30am-10.30am
NRC Campus (combined Academic and management)NRC conference/lecture hall 15.30 pm – 16.30pm


The ISP will have a faculty scholar’s track, and an academic leadership track. For more information about the programme, and what to expect at the meeting click on the respective links below:

Programme concept note

Comparison between faculty and academic leadership

ISP Workshop schedule

For more information contact the programmes coordinating office,pco@bunda.luanar.mw