AFRICA-EUROPE INNOVATION PLATFORM

Connecting stakeholders of the innovation value chain 

Dear Participant, 

Launched early this year, the Horizon Europe initiative, the Africa-Europe Innovation Platform (AEIP), aims to create a “network of networks” that can serve as a catalyst for collaboration, bringing together all stakeholders of the innovation value chain across and between Africa and Europe. Thus, it will not only offer a virtual platform of collaboration, but also different activities that will allow for the community to interact. Notably, we will offer trainings, matchmaking services, access to calls for proposals, opportunity to meet investors, participate to Communities of Practice, centralise existing knowledge and create curate new contents, etc. Most importantly, we will organise in-person events and launch Thematic Challenges that encourage all stakeholders to work together towards an innovative solution to a specific problem.

Who is the AEIP designed for? All stakeholders of the innovation value chain: Academia, Innovators, Start-ups and SMEs, Business Support Organisations (BSOs) and corporates, Development Finance institutions (DFIs) and private investors, civil society and policy makers. Our main goal is to leave no one behind, and to create synergies between existing networks and initiatives in the field of innovation. Members of the Consortium implementing the AEIP project, 15 entities both from the AU and the EU, will be the first to be offered access to the platform. They will also propose the first activities according to their specific profile. Their list can be found on our website.

In order to better tailor the platform's functionalities and activities to the ecosystem's needs, we are now conducting a survey that will help us identify the major challenges you encounter in your work and possible solutions we could offer. The questions are organised in 4 chapters, filling them should take you no more than 15 minutes.

Feel free to share the survey link in your network! It will be online till 25 April 2025.

Should you have any question, we remain available via e-mail at: andrea.stemler@technopolis-group.com.  

For further information about our privacy policy, please refer to the following website. 

The AEIP team 

https://africaeuropeinnovation.net/