by RUG Editor | Dec 8, 2021 | News, RUG Incubator
The SNV Ghana (GrEEn) project Innovation Challenge is a yearly competition aimed at supporting SMEs and businesses that have outstanding, innovative green ideas. The Challenge forms part of GrEEn’s objective of supporting entrepreneurs and green SMEs to increase their...
by RUG Editor | Nov 22, 2021 | News, RUG Incubator
The 2-day event saw the budding entrepreneurs develop and pitch business ideas aimed at providing sustainable solutions to societal problems. The startup weekend is aimed at bringing together young Ghanaian entrepreneurs to develop eco-friendly solutions to societal...
by RUG Editor | Oct 1, 2021 | CWRP, News
Ghana generates approximately 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste per year and approximately 5% of the waste is collected for recycling. Research reveals about 82% of Ghana’s plastic wastes could be readily recovered and recycled with existing technologies into...
by RUG Editor | Jul 27, 2021 | News, RUG Incubator
Social enterprises intensify effort to encourage businesses from waste. There is the continuous growth of businesses in the green and circular economy space. Officials say promoting businesses in a circular economy is a strategic approach to preserving the...
by RUG Editor | May 26, 2021 | News, RUG NWEC
Introduction The year 2021 has been full of prospects and promise following myriad difficulties occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. It was officially declared that schools could officially reopen in January albeit with changes in contact hours, scheduling and...
by RUG Editor | May 26, 2021 | News, RUG Incubator
On the 15th January 2021, the second cohort of our Incubator program commenced with an introductory session. This was a virtual session where the entrepreneurs were introduced to the road map for the incubator program. During this session, the entrepreneurs were also...