What We Do
What We Do
The UGF has four grand challenges. Each grand challenge has a set of individual-specific goals geared towards achieving the grand challenge. No grand challenge is more important than another. Thus, each grand challenge requires equal consideration and efforts geared towards their realization.
Aspirational Goals to UG's Blueprint 2040
Goal I
Minimum of 1 graduate per Guyanese household.
Goal II
Leading the world in technical and applied knowledge and result in 7 key technical areas.
Goal III
Becoming the center of excellence for research and strategic response to Guyana’s present and future grand challenges
Goal IV
Creating a University that produces citizens who are fit for purpose and who succeed
Goal V
Rolling out The Blue Print in four (4) 5-year terms
Rationale for Aspirations of UG's Blueprint
I
A growing and changing population in terms of age, migration and nationality
II
Climate change which requires different thinking and response to all the ways of being that we know as humans
III
Environmental changes
IV
Rapidly evolving technology
V
Economic changes in light of opening of our oil and gas frontiers
VI
Geo-political shifts
VII
Pandemic and other biological threats.