PRESS RELEASE
Title : Sierra Leone Education in Entrepreneurial Pedagogy & Skills (SLEEK) Project Launched to Enhance Entrepreneurship Education and Job Creation.
Milton Margai Technical University (MMTU), a proud partner of the Sierra Leone Education in Entrepreneurial Pedagogy & Skills (SLEEK) project, is delighted to announce the launch of this transformative initiative under the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) programme. The project aims to strengthen Sierra Leone’s capacity to foster entrepreneurship education, create quality jobs, and empower youth and women entrepreneurs.
Benefits to Sierra Leone
The SLEEK project brings tremendous benefits to Sierra Leone by:
By addressing weaknesses in entrepreneurship education, SLEEK is poised to drive sustainable growth, social cohesion, and innovation within Sierra Leone.
Project Partners
The SLEEK project is a collaborative effort between renowned institutions, both local and international. The consortium partners include:
This partnership showcases the importance of collaboration between public and private universities in Sierra Leone, combining expertise to achieve impactful outcomes.
Theme
The theme of the SLEEK project is “Enhancing Entrepreneurship Pedagogy for Sustainable Growth and Job Creation.”
Objectives
The SLEEK project aims to:
Impact
Through SLEEK, higher education institutions in Sierra Leone will:
The Sierra Leone Education in Entrepreneurial Pedagogy & Skills (SLEEK) project encourages all stakeholders, including educators, businesses, and community leaders, to engage with the SLEEK project. Your participation and support are vital to achieving its goals.
For updates on this project, visit the following website:
For further details, contact Mr. Papa N’jai, Project Manager, SLEEK Project.
MILTON MARGAI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
EU 100,000 Euros Entrepreneurship Project Launched
The Milton Margai Technical University (MMTU) has won a grant of over 100,000 euros from 700,000 euros to implement the Sierra Leone Education in Entrepreneurial Pedagogy and Skills Project (SLEEK), which, when effectively implemented, will become a game changer in Sierra Leone by strengthening the link between academia and businesses.
The SLEEK Project was launched at the Congo Cross Campus today, Thursday, 12th June 2025.
Officially launching the project, the Director of Higher Education in the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education, Emmanuel J. Momoh Esq., appealed to universities to embark on research that should be the hub for policy makers and underscored that MMTU has positioned itself to drive the process of the Technical University forward.
Mr. Momoh commended MMTU for the initiative that would promote local content and admonished the institution to bring market women and other business people onboard the project.
In his overview of the SLEEK Project, Mr. Papa N’Jai, Coordinator of Short Courses, MMTU, assured that in the next couple of months he would visit the various faculties to sensitise them about the project that is one of the pillars of the government’s human capital development and that the project would look at the issues in Sierra Leone and proffer solutions.
According to Papa N’Jai, entrepreneurship cuts across all disciplines, stating that the project would change the mindset of students, and he appealed to all to make good use of the incubator hub at the Goderich campus of the MMTU to develop their ideas, noting that the project is a continuation of the hub to enrich the work they have already begun.
He disclosed that a combined launch of the project would be held in September this year, an Entrepreneurship Week in October, and International Innovation Sierra Leone in December.
The Vice Chancellor and Principal of the MMTU, Prof. Philip John Kanu, commended the European Union and other donors for the grant, stating that the project would be the game changer when successfully implemented, and catalogued the institution’s five key objectives in its strategic plan: access and relevance as a technical university, financial sustainability, quality assurance, applied research, and community services, among others.
He further articulated that the project would also train students to make them relevant in society and urged them to have passion for what they do.
Earlier in his welcome statement, the Acting Dean of the Congo Cross Campus, Ing Rodney Jenner-Lewis, reiterated that the project was geared towards promoting entrepreneurship, providing a link between entrepreneurship and academia in all disciplines, providing the much-needed skills for businesses and management, and providing ideas and developing solutions to challenges and industries.
In his statement of purpose, the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Business and Management Studies, Mr. Abdul Bademba Barrie, revealed that the launch of the project would create awareness to help capacitate lecturers to effectively teach entrepreneurship to address the gap, build networks with businesses to create a nation of job creators and not seekers, and, in the process, employ others that would have a multiplying effect in the country.
The project will impart real-world skills, pitch ideas, train beneficiaries how to collect and analyse data, develop creative thinking skills, and teach problem identification for solutions to make the world a better place, as it was noted that the world has become unpredictable and that the project will handle uncertainties.
A survey and comprehensive pedagogy have been developed for the project in addition to a review of the curriculum with partners to train faculty and market women. Also, the project will be divided into work packages, including project management and quality assurance.
Other beneficiaries of the European Union Erasmus grant are the Institute of Public Administration and Management, the University of Makeni, the University of Management and Technology (UNIMTECH), and Innovation Sierra Leone, while the United Methodist Church University is an observer.
