Vision, Mission and Values

Vision

To remain the source of pride for the nation through excellence in technological education, research and innovation

 Mission

  •  To produce competent professionals in various fields of technology and engineering through undergraduate and graduate studies.
  •  To conduct research and innovation that contributes to industrial and national development needs.
  • To expand and conduct technology transfer, consultancy service, community engagement that impacts the lives of people and enhances income generation.

Core Values 

  • Academic freedom: a strong commitment to a free and democratic academic environment whereby all the institute communities exercise the right to free expression of ideas, inquire, investigate and engage in relevant academic practices, and development to pursuit for freedom of truth.
  • Learning for excellence: BiT recognizes the importance of different tools for continuous improvement and believes in the principle of systematically seeking to achieve incremental changes to excel in its operation by improving the efficiency and quality of doing things and strive to develop lifelong learners which help for reputability based on the successful execution of the mission.
  • Quality: the institute upholds quality as the ruling standard in teaching, research and community engagement, and commits to attain highest standards.
  • Innovation: develop or excel a culture for generating new ideas, processes, services, technologies and entrepreneurial skills through competitiveness and cooperation into new knowledge, operations and novel solutions to existing challenges.
  • Social responsibility: BiT recognizes the obligation to act and behave ethically with sensitivity towards social, cultural, environmental and economic issues of the nation. All endeavors of the institute should be environmentally friendly so as to benefit the society at large and maintaining the health and integrity of ecosystem.
  • Recognition of merit: BiT has a strong belief on the importance of giving public and institutional recognition to the person who makes significant contribution to the socio-economic development and environmental sustainability.
  • Diversity & Internationalization: BiT recognizes the need to prepare students and staffs to engage in a national and global environment which needs students and staffs to have diverse perspectives and enable them to interact meaningfully with those very different from themselves.

Strategic Plan (2021 - 2025

The achievements of Bahir Dar Institute of Technology (BiT) along with increased growth of enrolment of students and program diversifications during the past 57 years have been multi-folded through continuous learning for practically oriented quality education, research and innovation. The institute has followed a well-prepared strategic plan for the past five years (2016 to 2020). The new Strategic Plan (2021-2025) seeks to leverage the strengths that BiT has developed over the past six decades and to build upon them and acquire or develop new strengths. To realize the institute’s vision to remain the source of pride for the nation through excellence in technological education, research and innovation, the strategic plan has set three missions. These are producing competent professionals in various fields of technology and engineering through undergraduate and graduate studies, conducting research and innovation in-line with the priority needs of the nation and expanding technology transfer, consultancy service, community engagement that impacts the lives of people and enhances income generation. The pursuance of these missions is set to be guided by six core values: academic freedom, continuous learning, quality, innovation, recognition of merit, and social responsibility.

The strategic plan focuses on five core strategic themes: teaching-learning; research and innovation; technology transfer, community engagement and income generation; governance and leadership; and establishing enabling environments in the institute. The strategic themes have tangible and measurable strategic goals and action steps with expected outcomes.  A total of 27  strategic goals are defined based on the results of the SWOT analysis, input-process-output requirement analysis of each theme, BiT and BDU previous achievements, BiT long-term roadmap, national strategic plans and directions, assessments on technological advancements and strategic planning guidelines. The strategic goals have tangible and measurable indicators that span in the five years period.

Teaching-learning is the first strategic theme of the strategic plan. In this theme, BiT seeks to attract the best students from the country and international student particularly from Africa and offer them an excellent educational experience. It plans to accredit programs and laboratories so that it will be a choice to the students, establish an inviting and stimulating atmosphere for education and research, and a rich suite of extra-and co-curricular activities including talent identification. Carrier development that improves student’s life-skills and career planning will be a part of the holistic development.

Research and innovation is the second strategic theme. This strategic theme focuses to nurture the large groups of academic staff including the alumina to intensively work on research, innovation and technology transfer that have the potential to address the societal challenges faced in Ethiopia, specifically in areas such as agriculture, energy, manufacturing, health, tourism, digital technology and education. This theme outlines steps to increase the quality and quantity of research outputs through an increase in research intensity, transformation of the academic staff from MSc to PhD, graduate program expansion, and engagement with industry and international collaborations. The plan seeks to make BiT the center of research and innovation in digitalization, system development, emerging technology adaptation and commercialization that will be force multiplier in addressing the societal and industrial challenges.

(Please refer the attached Strategic Plan 2021 - 2025 booklet for full description)

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