TETFund Receives Over 1600 Entries For National Research Exhibition
The Organising Committee of the TETFund National Research Fair/Exhibition has announced that it has received over 1,600 entries in the maiden edition of the programme.
Chairman of the committee, Engr. Umar Bindri who disclosed this during an interview with journalists on Sunday, added that the submission of concept notes will be extended by one week.
He called on Nigerians yet to submit their proposals to take advantage of the one-week extension to do so.
The TETFund National Research Fair/Exhibition which aims at bridging the gap between research, innovation and the market is billed for November 17 to 22.
Bindri said the five-day event will provide a platform for researchers, innovators, manufacturers, investors, venture capitalists as well as policymakers to showcase their products to the market.
He said the fair will support and promote homegrown technologies to emerge as businesses and solution providers, which ultimately will reduce the dependence on foreign technologies, save foreign exchange, create massive jobs and generate wealth, especially for the country’s teeming youth population.
While expressing the commitment of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to supporting cutting-edge research and its application for economic development, the agricultural engineer said the event would showcase practical research outcomes and scalable prototypes to potential investors and entrepreneurs for commercialization.
He disclosed that at the expiration of the submission deadline, applications would be screened and pruned down before the commencement of the programme.
It would be recalled that the submission was earlier scheduled from 9th to 30th September 2024.
“We have two categories of submissions. One is the formal institutions: the universities, polytechnics, research institutes, and colleges of education. The second is the informal institutions like the pantakers and creative people.
“The submissions in the formal one are around 1,300. The informal one is around 300. So we have between 1,500 to 1,600. But we have extended by another week. So by next week, we are going to do the final close down.
“We want to make sure that submission must be formal. We don’t want somebody to come to the gate with his invention begging, saying he is from your village. We cannot make progress using those primitive ways of doing things,” Bindri said.
TETFund Receives Over 1600 Entries For National Research Exhibition is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
