Category: News
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Request for Applications (RFA); Round 5, Track 2: PhD Research Grants 2023/2024
Background Funding opportunity description: Makerere University received special funding from the Government of the Republic of Uganda, to support high impact Research and Innovations that will accelerate national development. The Financial Year 2022/24 is the fifth year of this fund’s availability. The fund illustrates the increasing importance that the Government attaches to Research and Innovation
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Join the Mak-RIF5 Awards Launch
Join us for the RIF Round 5 Launch on On behalf of the Grants Management Committee (GMC), we are honored to invite you to Launch the Mak-RIF Round 5 awards scheduled for Wednesday, January 17, 2024 from 10:00 AM EAT. Please use the following details to join the launch; https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89366876421?pwd=IpXzqQ0vTAfgi2EsCCGl8KpiRWdTex.1 Meeting ID: 893 6687 6421Passcode: rif5launch
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Mak Hosts Commonwealth Delegates Attending 27th CSPOC
On Friday 5th January 2024, Makerere University was privileged to host delegates of the 27th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) hosted by the Parliament of Uganda from 3rd to 6th January 2024. A biannual event, the 28th Edition of CSPOC will be hosted by India in 2026. The delegation was led by the Member of Parliament for
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Mak- RIF engages Private Sector, NGOs, and CSO representatives in UgandaReview of the Mak-RIF Research Agenda
On November 9th, 2023, the Mak-RIF Grants Management Committee (GMC) and Secretariat convened representatives from the Private Sector, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Civil Society Organizations in the Makerere University College of Computing and Information Sciences Conference Room. This was yet an opportunity for Mak-RIF to share her achievements to date while reflecting on the guiding Research
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Digitalizing Academic Records and Processes at Makerere University to improve and ease service delivery
“Any University can only be successful if they can account for their students years after” Prof. Nawangwe said. On Tuesday September 26th, 2023, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, Makerere University’s Vice Chancellor commissioned a modern registry records storage facility at Makerere University Senate Building. This is a project being implemented as a multiyear project by the Department
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Engagement with Uganda’s Ministry of Public Service
On September 14th, 2023, part of the team from Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund (Mak-RIF) secretariat engaged a team from Uganda’s Ministry of Public Service through the office of the Permanent Secretary Mrs. Catherine Bitarakwate Musingwiire. The Mak-RIF team was led by Prof. Robert Wamala, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Research and Graduate
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Consultative Engagement with Makerere University Principals and Deans
On Friday July 28th, 2023, part of the Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund (Mak-RIF) team under the leadership of Prof. Fred Masagazi Masaazi engaged Makerere University Principals and Deans. The aim of this engagement was to share with the Principals and Deans that the Mak-RIF team will be soon re engaging them to review
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Government of the Republic of Uganda stakeholder engagement to review the Mak- RIF Research Agenda
On Tuesday August 29th, 2023, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, Vice Chancellor Makerere University working with Prof. Fred Masagazi Massaazi, Chairperson Makerere University Research and Innovations Fund (Mak-RIF), the Mak-RIF Grants Management Committee and Secretariat convened an engagement with representatives from Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies to review the Mak-RIF Research Agenda. This engagement took place in
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Makerere Launches Solar-powered Cooker
Makerere University has launched a Solar-powered Cooker developed by researchers from the Department of Agricultural and Bio-systems Engineering at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) in collaboration with Intellsys (U) Ltd. the MakSol Cooker was officially unveiled and launched on 14th June 2023 by the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Hon. Dr. Monica Musenero
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Our own Badaye Technologies Limited wins two awards at the BIG BANG! University of California Davis Business Competition
The University of California (UC) Davis Big Bang! Business Competition provides a forum for innovators to collaborate as they develop and test business ideas. Badaye Technologies Limited participated in the UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition March through May 2023 and was selected to the finals. Congratulations! The team at Badaye Technologies Limited won two