Our projects

HEED Africa

A €1.3m EU-funded project that designed and implemented a harmonised entrepreneurship education framework across:

Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
University of Ghana (Ghana)
Makerere University and Kyambogo University (Uganda)
Milpark Business School (South Africa).

HEED-Africa strengthened inter-institutional entrepreneurship ecosystems, supported student start-ups, reduced graduate unemployment, and enabled 100+ scholarships for Master’s and PhD intra-Africa mobility programmes.

University-industry collaboration

Advanced from HEED-Africa through British Council funding with Covenant University (CU) and Kwara State University (KWASU), scaling entrepreneurship infrastructure and informing the relaunch of CU’s Micro-Venture Accelerator Programme (m‑VAP).

m‑VAPs is now in it's 7th cycle and has:

contributed to an 83.7% graduate employment rate
supported 160+ high-growth graduate start-ups
a combined workforce of 1,700 across agribusiness, e-commerce, renewables, and digital healthcare.

Bridging borders

Entrepreneurship education has been compulsory in Nigerian universities for nearly two decades, but many institutions still lack delivery capacity. Bridging Borders strengthens entrepreneurship education and supports foundations for future transnational education (TNE) partnerships.

Delivered with: Covenant University, University of Lagos, University of Ibadan (British Council funded).
What changed: a practice-based entrepreneurship education toolkit embedded into curricula.
Capacity built: 100+ academic and administrative staff trained.
Potential reach: 120,000+ students equipped with market-ready innovation and start-up skills.

Project contact: Professor Paschal Anosike

OPTiMIX

OPTiMIX (Optimising malaria interventions in Africa) is testing the best mix of malaria prevention tools, vaccines, improved bed nets, and medicines, to protect children from malaria in Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire.

A distinctive feature is its focus on service delivery improvement through the Leadership and Engagement for Improved Accountability and Delivery of Services (LEAD) framework. LEAD brings health workers, managers, and communities together to co-create practical solutions – strengthening leadership, accountability, and sustainability.

Project contact: Professor Peter Case

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Unexpected enterprises

Funded by Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK), Unexpected Enterprises research investigated emerging forms of entrepreneurship in creative and cultural work and their implications for enterprise education by supporting more critical, diverse, and contemporary approaches to creative entrepreneurship pedagogy.

Project contact: Dr Emma Agusita

Inherited inequality

An investigation into why 3rd and 4th generation Windrush graduates in the UK continue to face barriers to professional employment despite being UK-born and university-educated. The project uses surveys, interviews, and community-led evidence cafés to build an intersectional evidence base to inform more inclusive policy and institutional responses.

Project contact: Dr Chisa Onyejekwe