The UPSCALE Project is a progressive Erasmus+ initiative, co-funded by the European Union, designed to improve the employability of university graduates in Botswana and Eswatini. Its key focus is on implementing dual career pathways and establishing a system to track graduate employability. Officially launched in December 2024, the project brings together five African universities and four leading European institutions in a collaborative partnership.
Upscaling graduates’ employability tracking through special dual career paths
The project bridges higher education and labour-market needs by building capacity for employability tracking, piloting dual career pathways and strengthening career guidance systems.
Four objectives driving transformation
UPSCALE focuses on policy, institutional capacity, dual higher education and structured graduate employability monitoring.
To produce dual education and monitoring the higher education (HE) graduates' employabilityand build-up national consensus betweenthe key stakeholders involved in Botswana & Eswatini (hereafter Partner Countries-PCs);
To enrich and advance the legislative and normative framework on HE dual education & graduates' employability at the national and institutional levels in PCs;
To Strengthen the capacity of PCs' HEIs staff to develop and release graduates' employability tracking, to deliver efficient career guidance services and promotethe professional insertion of students and graduates in the labour market;
Official UPSCALE Project Platform
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Botswana
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Work packages and project lifecycle
The UPSCALE lifecycle moves from project management to monitoring tools, institutional reform, dual career path development, dissemination and impact.
Coordination, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and quality control.
Graduate tracking tools, surveys, study visits and country profiling.
Structures, procedures and toolkit for employability tracking.
DHE model, programmes, teaching materials and implementation toolkit.
Communication, sustainability, campaign delivery and impact maximisation.
A dynamic overview of key UPSCALE project activities, implementation stages and institutional milestones.
UPSCALE begins its 36-month implementation cycle, focusing on graduate employability tracking and dual career pathway development.
Consortium meeting to review project direction, partner roles, implementation planning and upcoming activities.
Project update session to review implementation progress, institutional responsibilities, upcoming activities and readiness for the next reporting phase.
Teams visited Spain, Poland and Slovenia to benchmark dual higher education, employability tracking and university–industry collaboration.
Planned at the University of Eswatini to review WP1–WP5 progress, operational planning, KPIs and EU audit readiness.
Career centre mission, services, industrial attachment pathway and contact information.
Project details, objectives, consortium, work packages and management structure.
Formal project launch agenda, timing, venue and facilitators.
Graduate employability monitoring practices and portals.
Monitoring tools, surveys, work-integrated learning and recommendations.
Dual higher education, 1+X certificates and school–enterprise partnerships.
Team reconstitution, QS focus and mini-site action item.
Milestones, EU visits, reports and website progress.
Budget, claims and documentation guidance.
Office Phone Number
career@baisago.ac.bw
dean.education@baisago.ac.bw
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