These are the areas Novara's work is intended to extend across over time. They are not nine institutes we operate today — and we label each one honestly.
A serious partner needs to know the difference between what we deliver, what we are testing, and what remains architecture. Every area below carries one of three labels.
How can education produce people who create value, rather than simply accumulate qualifications?
How can emerging technologies increase African productivity and solve local problems?
How can productivity, processing, storage, logistics and market access be improved?
How can research, technology and enterprise contribute to stronger health outcomes?
How can Africa develop affordable, resilient and sustainable energy and environmental systems?
How can African industries become more productive, technological and globally competitive?
How can engineering and institutional capability improve the systems economies depend on?
How can capital and markets better support productive economic activity?
How can institutions become more effective, accountable, innovative and resilient?
Suppose a partner brings us this: smallholder farmers are losing significant value to post-harvest spoilage.
We do not respond by creating another robotics course. We assemble a team: engineering designs the equipment, technology develops the monitoring and data systems, research studies the causes and validates the intervention, entrepreneurship develops the business model, future skills supplies the systems thinking and project leadership, and media documents adoption.
Six schools working as one system. That is the point of having them.
Every problem entering Novara is recorded with its evidence, who is affected, why existing solutions are insufficient, the disciplines required, and its potential value. Over time this becomes an institutional asset.
If your organization, institution or community has one worth solving, we would like to hear it.
