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Under the ongoing work packages of the EU-funded Erasmus+ TAKE-UP (Transforming Academic Knowledge to Develop Entrepreneurial Universities in Pakistan), a three-member delegation of CUI, Lahore Campus visited the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany from July 25 to 29, 2022. The delegation was comprised of Dr. Syed Muhammad Imran Haider Naqvi, Read more…

The National Incubation Center Lahore (NICL) at LUMS, partnered with the University of Saarland, through the TakeUp project, to conduct an introductory course on entrepreneurship for those who were interested in the field, but did not know where to start. This collaboration resulted in the formation of the Entrepreneurship 101 Read more…

Author: Dr. Khalid Iqbal* The project has been divided into ten Work Packages (WPs), titled ‘Kick-Off and Self-Assessment’, ‘Strategic Action Planning’, ‘Establishing of FabLabs in Pakistan’, ‘Development of Locally Relevant Training and Teaching Material Focused on Developing Entrepreneurial Skills in Students’, ‘Professionalizing Entrepreneurial Coaching ‘, ‘Training and Certifying Entrepreneurial Coaches Read more…

Entrepreneurship is the combination of innovation and risk-taking. In Pakistan, it is a much-undermined term. This perspective can only be changed by educational institutes. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) described modern universities as a global prospect for higher education in the 21st century, as follows: “It Read more…

The Take-Up project is working in collaboration with LUMS and the National Incubation Center Lahore (NICL), to bolster the entrepreneurial mindset within the context of Pakistan. They have already taken a step towards instilling the entrepreneurial mindset in their students by piloting a new ‘Entrepreneurship 101’ course in collaboration with Read more…