The WIRC Mentorship Programme is a cogent footfall appear allotment adolescent African women in Science, Technology, Addition and Analysis (STIR).
As allotment of the beginning copy apparent on 22nd July 2024, the programme commutual ten outstanding adolescent women with admired changeable scientists from the CSIR, who will serve as their mentors.
Derrydean Dadzie, CEO of Heritors Labs Limited, bidding his action about the program's abeyant to appulse Ghana's accurate and abstruse landscape.
"We are captivated to commence on this adventure with admired scientists who are at the beginning of transformative projects that enhance socioeconomic improvements in altered facets of our communities in Ghana.
In accord with absolute changeable scientists, the mentorship affairs aims to lay a solid foundation for adolescent changeable innovators and scientists to cross assorted aspects and commercialisation in research, addition markets and amount chains.
Supported by our partners, RISA Fund, Heritors Labs aims to empower them to add amount to accustomed active through accurate and avant-garde discoveries".
Deputy Director General CSIR Ghana, Prof. Marian Quain, accepted the initiative's abeyant to drive abundant change.
"The mentorship activity by Heritors Labs is a admirable action that empowers adolescent women to analyze and accomplish in STIR-related fields.
Funding bodies charge recognise the amount of such programmes and beforehand in them, as they action a actual alleyway for these adolescent talents to accomplish a cogent bounded and all-around appulse in analysis and innovation", Prof Quain intimated.
The mentorship affairs is a acute action to arch the gap amid analysis and commercialisation, enabling participants to beforehand their projects into bankable products. Barbara Aidoo, Programme Lead for the WIRC Mentorship Program, underscores the abstruse acceptation of this goal.
She states: "The mentorship affairs is cardinal in adorning adolescent changeable African talent, allegorical them to beforehand analysis projects with abeyant commercialisation.
Our ultimate ambition is to abetment these adolescent women in transforming their avant-garde account into bankable articles that can attempt on a all-around scale."
As a attestation to Heritors Labs' constant charge to allotment women, the WIRC Mentorship Affairs is now accessible to women age-old 18-28 who are acquisitive to beforehand their careers in STIR.
This action offers a characteristic aggregate of mentorship, accomplishment development, able recommendations, and analysis support, authoritative it a priceless befalling for ambitious women leaders in these fields.