Higher Education Solution Network (HESN)/ APS - Michigan State University: Malawi University of Science and Technology - Innovation Scholars Program (MUST ISP)

Through the STIP Annual Program Statement (APS), the Lab published an APS aimed at identifying and funding university-based support of cross-cutting development challenges that can be tackled by a "whole of university" approach with our U.S. based and non-U.S. based university partners.

Launched in March 2018, the Accelerating Local Potential Addenda to the STIP APS sought to build human and institutional capacity in developing country universities through partnerships with U.S. based universities.

After co-creation, four awards were selected that each sought to build capacity and self-reliance by strengthening developing country university institutions. One of the four awards is with Michigan State University.

Michigan State University, in partnership with Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the Malawi National Engineering Ecosystem Network, plan to implement the MUST Innovation Scholars Program (MUST ISP).

The MUST ISP aims to improve the human and institutional capacity of MUST to harness and use innovation to respond to, and preempt, local and regional agricultural challenges, as well as strengthen relationships among academia, the private sector and the Malawian government to maximize potential use of agricultural innovations stemming from MUST (and other Malawian universities).