CFIS - Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development

The Centre for Foundation and Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS) is a composite Unit that services other academic faculties in pursuit of corporate goals of the university toward the delivery of approved curricula. The Centre also designs and anchors collaborative partnerships between the university and other institutions. This year has been eventful in view of several collaborations and training programmes by CFIS towards equipping the general public, staff and students with requisite knowledge and skills to survive in the changing and uncertain contemporary world.

One of these events is the Baze University’s partnership with the Swedish Embassy through Global Wissen Consults, to train students in Digital Entrepreneurship skills, in any business area of their choice. In this partnership, highly qualified facilitators train students for three months in various aspects of entrepreneurship. Participants are certified after a successful performance. More than two hundred students from various faculties of the University have benefitted from this programme. CFIS has also signed Memorandums of Understandings (MOU) with some consultants to implement diverse academic-oriented programmes for the benefit of staff and students, while some are still on the drawing board, a few of the programmes have commenced implementation. One of such collaborations, is with the Society for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development to organize International Academic Conference on Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development, scheduled for June 2023. In order to ensure continuity in the culture of excellence, the Centre has been given approval to organize a Mandatory Capacity Development Programme for academic staff.

The Centre manages the University Entrepreneurship Club and Toast Masters Club which provide students with a resourceful platform to network, share and develop innovative ideas into viable opportunities and enterprises. To strengthen the Club, the Centre organizes an annual Entrepreneurship week, which features professional workshops and exhibitions of various creative and innovative entrepreneurial products.

*Prof. Emeka Ene is the Director of the Centre for Foundations & Interdisciplinary Studies.