The Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technologies in East Africa (CENIT@EA) is a regional innovation hub offering skills for the digital transformation in the East Africa Community.

To respond the concrete needs of the digital transformation in the region, CENIT@EA established a market-driven master’s programme in Embedded and Mobile Systems (MSc EMoS) and offers short-term technical trainings for ICT professionals, unemployed graduates and university lecturers to provide them with the relevant digital skills. The trainings are offered throughout the EAC on topics such as Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Electronic Systems.

CENIT@EA offers full-time scholarships for currently three Cohorts consisting of 88 students in total from all EAC Partners States who are enrolled in the MSc EMoS for a period of two years each. The first cohort is graduating in August 2021. The Master includes elements such as an internship, an applied Master thesis, Summer Schools, guest lecturers from the private and public sector, as well as Entrepreneurial and Soft Skills training. This enables the students to develop and market digital solutions, that are crucial for the transformation of industries and the development of the region

To assure this demand-driven and value-creating approach, CENIT@EA works very closely with the private sector through events such as ICT4Business and cooperation mechanisms such as the Memorandum of Understanding with IBM. The regional network and dialogue between academia, public, and private sector is furthermore facilitated for collaborative development of the digital transformation.