Smart Notto Diobasse University
Make Smart Notto Diobasse University (SNDU) an African model of applied intelligence, rooted teaching and collaborative research.
Objective
Train entrepreneurs and managers in the agro-industry, sports and sustainable city sectors
Producing ambitious, grounded research
Integrating young people into the local economy
Internationalizing talent
Cooperating with Smart City developers
Academic architecture: Deployment in 5 thematic schools
Agro-industry and food sovereignty
Sports industry: training, products, events, tourism...
Smart cities, sustainable energy and urban design
Social engineering and urban governance
High-level applied research
Priority areas: Agro-industry and food sovereignty
Sports industry
Frugal innovation, territorial entrepreneurship
Urban data, AI, sustainable energy
Urban governance, citizen participation
Professionalization
Student projects based on real Smart City issues
Integrated incubator for student startups and local cooperatives
Employment partnerships with Smart City developers, start-ups, companies and institutions
Smart City collaboration
USND, a shared innovation platform with :
university/business committees
joint calls for projects
experimentation (Living Labs, Fablabs)
Objective: create an ecosystem
apprenticeship and professionalization programs tailored to
needs of Smart City operators
