As the world is going through a devastating pandemic that influenced both life and livelihood, more spillovers are expected in every sector, industry and discipline. The COVID-19 and the lockdowns for more than 12 months brought challenges, but also opportunities. However, unfortunately most of the opportunities gone towards technology relation solutions rather than human-related solutions. The international emergency situation, the Trumpism, the nationalism movement, the stretch between the leftist and rightist movements have created shakeup for what we used to know before the outbreak of the virus. Now, globalisation is reviewed and a transformation of new economic powers in many communities, including their socio-economic situations; are all going through periods of instability and deterioration of quality of life; despite the availability of many resources and sources for development.
Issues as non-communicable diseases, migration, the gap between the poor and the rich, the middle-class rigidity, unemployment, family instability, scarce jobs opportunities, vulnerable people needs, growing population, etc. are increasing especially with repeated world crisis that is both man-made and natural. Unless, such problems are solved, we would have mental health problems, more communities’ frictions, more displacement and most of all, more scarce-driven mind set that create more conflicts and bring in more complicated solutions. Therefore, and based on the intention of preserving or enhancing the capacity of the IIEP projects through structured approaches, the PIE programs, be it PhD, or MSc have been released starting from 2021, where we started looking and be open to partnerships from all over the world with focus on higher education institutions. The visualisation is that partnering universities would start creating a new type of impact that the world needs most today. The MIE program promises to bring inspiration economy experts and to ignite positive change that overcome of the world conflicts, disasters and crisis towards more inspiring experiences, models and stories.
The world is changing, and one of the main changes is relevant to the disturbance of the socioeconomic development efforts that were built in the last century. This instability became very clear as we entered a new era called the new normal with the evolution of the COVID 19 pandemic. In this time of great transition, we believe we have a role in speeding up economic concepts that are focused on socioeconomic development regardless of the world condition.
This brought the necessity of a postgraduate programme that advocates raising the capacity of the coming generations in relevance to socioeconomic development. The programme shall target to leverage and facilitate graduates to spread the approaches for the new economies that create more flourishing communities and organisations that see alternatives to the capital economy.