The UEMF obtains the Responsible Innovation Label during its first 2020/2021 edition

The Responsible Innovation Label was awarded to the UEMF during its first 2020/2021 edition for the “ Sustainable UEMF Program ” project.

UEMF RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LABEL CERTIFICATE

The Responsible Innovation Label is intended for higher education and research establishments, private or public, members of the AUF throughout the world. Its objective is twofold: to map and promote responsible innovations from French-speaking university establishments around the world, but also to deploy the responsible innovation network to promote synergies between universities , civil society and the socio-economic sector working for the development of a responsible company.

The ambitions of the Label:

The label responds to several challenges:

• Identify responsible innovations generated by French-speaking universities to promote them. and develop them;
• Strengthen the capacities and skills in SDG/ESS of the Francophonie network;
• Organize support for French-speaking universities wishing to innovate responsibly;
• Train and support researchers, staff, students and teachers at French-speaking universities in responsible innovation and its social and environmental impact;
• Generate new partnerships and new resources around responsible innovation within the network of French-speaking universities;
• Participate in and develop the emerging SDG/ESS dynamic in the academic world. 

The advantages of the Label for higher education and research establishments:

• Be an active establishment;
• Attract more students, teachers and researchers;
• Mobilize new financiers;
• Gain local and international visibility around the SDGs and the ESS;
• Create a strong brand image: a “responsible” and “committed to sustainable development” university; 
• Access national and international, public and private funding;

Up skills :

• Develop the university: training and partnerships;
• Be in contact with responsible innovation actors locally and internationally;
• Access technical or financial support from the AUF for the actors involved;
• Access the network and tools of the ACTIF system;

Position yourself as a player in responsible innovation:

• Being an actor and operator of the sustainable development of societies;
• Being an actor and operator of responsible and sustainable innovation, the SDGs and the ESS.
   

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