University of Pretoria. Picture: Wikimediacommons A community engagement initiative at the University of Pretoria (UP) injects more than R60 million into the economy a year. This is part of the university’s large-scale learning project embedded into the curriculum. Details of the initiative were revealed by UP’s community engagement manager Gernia van Niekerk at a three-day virtual summit. Organised by the university and the University Social Responsibility Network, the biennial summit allows academics, researchers and practitioners a forum to assess the progress made by partner universities on their social responsibility endeavours. It started on Wednesday and ended on Friday and was attended by representatives from 16 network partner universities from around the world. The network was established in 2015 and UP is the only African university that is part of it.