1. Impact of integrating data collection into university processes 26 October 2017, prof. kenneth kamwi matengu visiting professor, Cardiff University PVC: Research, Innovation and Development

2. UNAM Mission statement
The University of Namibia strives to provide quality higher education through teaching, research, innovation and community services to our customers with the view to develop productive and competitive human resources capable of creating and driving public and private institutions towards a knowledge-based economy, economic growth and improved quality of life.

3. Vision Statement
To be a beacon of excellence in innovation, teaching, research, and community services.

4. What is the purpose of engagement data integration?
To inform evidence-based planning, evaluation
To aid university relevance, social impact
Enrich student experience
To help universities forster community engagement and citizenship
To enable stakeholders have a role in the mission of universities

5. Categories of stakeholders
Who are we engaging
Categories of stakeholders
Those who make policy
Those who take decisions
Those who benefit
Those who are affected

6. What value does it have
Informs strategies of engagement to students in volunteerism Encourages academic staff in engagement through service learning (community-based projects) – e.g. indonesia UGM Academic and social engagement through enquiry-based learning

7. RESEARCH PRIORITY SETTING
Global Development Agenda:

8. How to measure engagement
Three different approaches
Community, staff satisfaction rates and community awareness of university programmes
Academic motivation expressed by students in community problem-solving initiatives
Quantitative and qaulitative impacts of engagements on academic achievement, volunteerism and international/national experiences

9. Funding – where will the $ come from?
Public Sector
National Commitment: 0.03% of GDP = N$300mil
Grants – Research Professional Platform
Horizon 2020 (EUR 6,6billion)
Intra-Africa
Novel ideas
bring money!

10. Cautionary statements
Trust is an important issue in innovation landscape
Innovation – not always about technology products and business, processes, systems and most importantly about people
Research and innovation should be competencies prompted in early years at school, nurtured at university, and diffused into the public and private sector
Shift from R&D to Innovation Clusters (regional endowments

12. Engagement is not about jumping into conclusions!!
It is about daring to see the complete picture first
Lets move together in pursuit of research excellence & innovation with impact

13. I thank you