EDHE Award 2022

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Date: 18 November (Friday)
Time: 12:30 – 16:30

The Premier Hotel OR Tambo, Boeing 1-3

Purpose Of The Intervarsity Finals & EDHE Awards

The EDHE Awards 2022 event is aimed at announcing and celebrating the 28 national finalists in the 4th annual EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity and recognising the contributions of other key contributors to entrepreneurship development in higher education. The four category winners, the national Studentpreneur of the Year 2022, the winning university as well as the EDHE DVC Award in recognition of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor who has facilitated exceptional institutional support for entrepreneurship development in 2022 will be announced at the EDHE Awards event as well.

Background of the EDHE Awards

For the third year, the noteworthy contributions of key staff members to entrepreneurship development in higher education is recognised through a number of awards, i.e.:

The four category winners of the EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity 2022;
Sponsored prizes from SAB foundation for the Social Impact Category winners;
EDHE Studentpreneur of the year 2022;
Winning university of the EDHE Entrepreneurship Intervarsity 2022;
Best institutional contribution to the national #SEW2022;
The coveted special EDHE DVC Award in recognition of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor who has facilitated exceptional institutional support for entrepreneurship development in 2022.
Recognition of contributions by the national Chairs and Deputy-Chairs of the EDHE Communities of Practice (CoPs (Community of Practice)) in 2022, being
- Studentpreneurs CoP (only students)
- CoP for Student Entrepreneurship
- CoP for Entrepreneurship in Learning & Teaching
- CoP for Entrepreneurship in Research
- CoP for Entrepreneurial Universities
- CoP for Entrepreneurial Universities

EDHE Entrepreneurship Learning and Teaching Excellence Award 2022 Recipients

Mr Juan Ontong and Ms Sher-Lee Arendse-Fourie from Stellenbosch University
Dr Ruenda Loots from Stellenbosch University
Mr Stuart Hendry from the University of Cape Town

EDHE Rising Star DVC Award in recognition of remarkable progress in support of entrepreneurship in 2022 winners

Rising star winner: Prof Vuyokazi Nomlomo from the University of Zululand
DVC Winner: Prof Jesika Singh, DVC: Research Innovation and Partnerships from the University of Limpopo