EXTENSION & LINKAGE DEPARTMENT

  VISION STATEMENT

   To deliver the Institute’s products and services to all its stakeholders in Nigeria and beyond.

    MISSION STATEMENT

    To continually develop and implement robust strategies that will effectively and efficiently connect and deliver the Institute’s products and services to relevant stakeholders   in Nigeria and beyond.

FUNCTIONS OF EXTENSION AND LINKAGE DEPARTMENT  

1. To promote FIIRO-Industry linkage and exchange programs.
2. To facilitate rapid commercialization of the Institute’s R&D results through market driven R&D projects originating from the industries through Needs Assessment Survey of Industries.
3. To effectively disseminate R&D results to end user industries, represents and make relevant presentations on behalf of the Institute upon invitation by its various stakeholders.
4. To organize regular Industrial Visits to the industries as well as organizing reception for stakeholders’ on courtesy/working visit to the Institute.
5. To develop virile, sustainable partnerships with other stakeholders aside from industries including tertiary institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, both local and international and to assist in developing      standard MoU format for various stakeholders.
6. To provide link with various donor agencies for R&D funding, technology extension program to industries, youth and women groups in conjunction with the Institute’s Management Committee on External Grants.
7. To organize statutory workshops, seminars, conferences, roundtable discussions, stakeholders’ meetings etc on topical issues relating to the mandate of the Institute.
8. To produce extension/promotional documents including industrial profiles, pre-feasibility reports, and so on.
9. To carry out techno-economic evaluation of technologies developed at the Institute with a view to generating investment data for extension and linkage purposes.
10. To extend FIIRO technologies to various end users through techno-entrepreneurship training designed to suit various target groups.
11. To continuously provide relevant contents for updating the Institute’s website to be redesigned in conformity with such contents and to promote web based financial transactions with the Institute by its stakeholders.
12. To continuously develop and implement strategies that will reduce paper responses to enquiries through interactive, friendly and informative auto response system, “frequently asked questions” and to answer enquiries on the Institute’s activities. 

     
    CONTACT THE DIRECTOR 

    Ms K.O. UNUIGBE  FNIM; FICCON; FCIPM; MIOEN

    Director (Extension & Linkage Department)

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    Tel No: +234 7061109988; +234 7088866632