IMT has chosen Dakar for the location of its first international space at the crossroads of innovation and training
The IMT EduLab is designed to be a space for sharing and exchanging ideas to help connect digital players in the region, research professors and IMT’s corporate partners.
Located in the very center of Dakar, the IMT EduLab features 130m2 of modular space that can be arranged to suit different activities: short or hybrid training courses, innovation workshops, showcases, conferences and think tanks.
From students to startups, companies or funding agencies, all of which play a role in the digital transition, EduLab seeks to bring together creative energies and a blend of skills to further trandsiciplinary thinking and contribute to local dynamics.
Bachelor’s degree in Innovation, Management and Digital Technologies
IMT and the SUPdeCO group are developing a Bachelor’s level degree program with an international dimension in step with the needs of companies in the region.
- Program offering professional skills
- Three-year degree
- Strong local ties with active contributions from local stakeholders including businesses
- Program focused on digital technology, frugal innovation and agile methods
- Hybrid between engineering sciences and technology and management
- Possibility of internships or study abroad programs outside Senegal, program taught partially in English
- Compatible with Executive Education certificate programs
This training based on active, innovative teaching methods will combine the most innovative educational initiatives developed by IMT and SUPdeCO with the excellence and wide variety of instructors from IMT schools, affiliated schools and IMT partner schools in Senegal as well as from companies associated with the project.
A training program in step with the “Digital Senegal 2025” strategy
In less than a decade, technology has evolved at a dizzying pace. The role of a digital transformation manager is to imagine, design and develop these new management and communication tools while incorporating their social, societal and environmental impacts.
Against this backdrop, the training provided perfectly aligns with the “Digital Senegal 2025” Strategy developed to support the focuses of the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE).
The number one strategic focus, “Human Capital,” in particular, calls for increasing professional training and for unlocking the skills needed to drive creativity and innovation, key factors for the development of the digital economy, especially through creating digital applications tailored to local needs and demands, and in order to compete globally.
IMT
IMT is a public institution dedicated to higher education and research for innovation.
It is a key player in the fusion of science, engineering and digital technology, and takes its schools’ skills into the major fields of transformation in digital technology, industry, energy and the environment as well as their impact on the industry of the future, cities, health, and autonomy.
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