- The program aims to enhance the ability of the local young adults to set up start-ups, using 'Design Sprint,' which is an idea development method of Google Ventures.

- It provides field-based and practical education to launch businesses, such as a prototype making, user test, etc.

(Photo 1) Chad Online Design Sprint Camp on Zoom

On the 27th through 31st of July, UNESCO UNITWIN Team of Handong Global University (President Soon-Heung Chang) held the Online Design Sprint Camp for young adults of Somang Society in Chad, Africa.

With the COVID-19 situation, where there are difficulties in international travelling and face-to-face education, this camp provided field-based entrepreneurship education to young adults in developing countries, who are interested in start-ups. The camp was conducted using Zoom, an online meeting platform under the purpose of empowering the students' capability in start-up entrepreneurship.

This camp ultimately aims to develop a sustainable business model for the development of the local community by creating a start-up boom and boost the people's interest in start-ups.

It was conducted under the supervision of Professor Sung-Bae Cho (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, HGU), and 40 local young adults from Somang Society NGO participated in the program.

The participants were educated to select a business item with high potential and lead it to an actual business. For the five days, participants made detailed plans regarding their business items, built prototypes, and conducted user tests.

Also, they conducted team activities to plan business items and build entrepreneurship plans based on the solutions to the problems of the local community.

Geun-Sun Park, branch manager of Chad Somang Society NGO said, "We appreciate the practical entrepreneurship education provided to these Chadian young adults in this time where educational disconnection has arisen as a critical issue. Ultimately, this camp would be a great help in the vitalisation of the community through cultivating regional human resources and launching businesses.

Handong Global University (HGU) with National Program for Excellence in Software has been supporting students' entrepreneurship education by holding 'Design Sprint,' a five-day idea developing method that was invented by Google Ventures. HGU's Design Sprint Camp program is provided not only to domestic universities but also to foreign universities and has become a well-founded alternative to entrepreneurship education.

(Photo 2) Group photo of Chad Design Sprint Camp

This camp was conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is expected to be an efficient ODA business case that satisfies the locals of developing countries.

Entrepreneurship Empowerment Program of UNITWIN-HGU encourages business start-up by providing education to African developing countries. It also aims to foster a sustainable business model for the development of the local economy and cultivate human resources in business start-up.

HGU conducts regular educational programs in Uganda, Chad, and Tanzania, and are planning to develop the education program in intimate relationships with local universities and institutions.

*UNESCO UNITWIN (University Twinning and Networking) is a program where university from a developed nation form a network with universities of the developing nation to support education and research institutes of these universities. Also, to narrow the gap of knowledge and support self-sustainability of the developing nations, founded by UNESCO in 1992. Handong Global University was selected as the First UNITWIN Sponsor University in 2007.

* Besides this, Handong Global University was selected as the First Intern Exchange Agreement University in South Korea with OECD (2008), Sponsoring University of UN ACADEMIC IMPACT (2011), Operating University of the UN Depository Library (2014), and host institution of the UN NGO Conference (2016). Handong opened the UNAI Ban Ki-moon Institute for Global Education (IGE) in 2019, thereby speeding up the drive for internationalization.

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