Wednesday April 17 2024 marked an important milestone in the entrepreneurial pursuits of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) when the representative of the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ernest Kofi Davis – Provost of the College of Education Studies – officially launched a two-year programme by the Ghana Climate University Network (GCUN). The GCUN is a network of universities and non-governmental organisations including UCC, the University of Eastern Finland and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. It is a European Union sponsored programme that promotes climate-resilient enterprises and farming practices aimed at adapting and combating climate change within the renewable natural resource sector. At UCC, the Department of Geography and Regional Planning is hosting the programme. 
The Principal GCUN Investigator at UCC and Head of the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Prof. Benjamin Kofi Nyarko, in his welcome address stressed on the importance of finding lasting climate-smart solutions to climate change and related problems. He noted that the two-year programme comprises a start-up project, students’ internship, introduction of short courses/academic programmes and mentorship for young faculty of the Department. The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development (CESED) is partnering the Department to implement the start-up project through the University of Cape Coast Business Incubator. The start-up package is an acceleration programme consisting of incubation support and a monthly stipend.
The Director of CESED, Prof. Mrs. Mavis S. Benneh Mensah briefed the gathering about preparations towards the start-up project and entreated students to apply when the call for climate-smart business ideas is published. The Director of Research, Innovation and Consultancy, UCC and the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, UCC delivered solidarity messages in support of the GCUN initiative.