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SME Digital Maturity Upskilling and Accelerator Program Development, Piloting and Transfer to University of Botswana Innovation Centre

  • SDG8
  • SDG4
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Cybersecurity and e-governance

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Timeframe 01.05.2024-31.05.2025 Aktiivne
Target group SMEs in Botswana
Budget 99 875 EUR
Funders
  • ESTDEV
Partners

In this project, a practical further training and accelerator program for SME digitalization will be created for key personnel of SMEs. The entire project is carried out in close cooperation with the Innovation Centre of the University of Botswana, which was created at the initiative of Botswana's business authorities to implement such development programs. Thanks to the close connection with the university, the Innovation Centre also has enough capacity and professional lecturers to conduct such programs.

Project objectives

In this project, a practical further training and accelerator program for SME digitalization will be created for key personnel of SMEs.

Actions and results

The required competence profile of the target group and the curriculum with the learning outcomes necessary to achieve it are created. 
Based on the curriculum, two programs will be created:

  • a shorter, 8-day training program for company managers;
  • and a longer, 3-6-month accelerator program for company teams.

The training module programs contain time and activity plans with theory blocks, practical tasks, discussions, and debates. Lecturer's instructional materials with slide material are created for the main theory blocks. The most important part of the educational material, where the presentation of international experience is important, is delivered in the form of video lectures using modern AI video generators. To test the developed program and materials and hand them over to the recipient, pilot and new lecturer training is carried out.