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ENRICH in Africa actors cooperating for a stronger EU-Africa innovation community
EiA Champions for innovation
Dedicated to raising up innovation, growing local economies, increasing productivity and generating inclusive employment, EiA recognises the vital role incubation and acceleration programmes play. Our Champions programme offers unique support services to our Champions. We support our incubators and accelerators through capacity-building and knowledge exchange programmes, enabling them to raise their offer of high-quality services to innovators. Discover how you could become an EiA Champion.
Interested in joining our Champions’ network? Find out more on the ENRICH in Africa Centre Platform!
Coming soon! EiA Centre for quality support services
To be launched following the pilot phase of the project, the EiA Centre will offer essential services to support our Champions and innovators across Europe and Africa. Focused around an ever-present digital platform, the EiA Centre will stand at the heart of all our activities, bringing together a community of local innovation actors, academia, government and civil society to connect, learn and engage. Interested to learn more?
EiA for internationalisation of innovation
Connected with front-runner innovation markets, soft-landing services ‘powered by EiA’ facilitate the internationalisation of African and European innovation. Through EiA and our sister projects, organisations can access services to explore new local markets in Africa, China, EU, Latin America, and the US and are able to offer local market development to EiA Champions host cities. Curious to learn how?
ENRICH IN AFRICA IS HERE FOR YOU
No matter if you are an innovator or someone facilitating innovation, you are invited to join the EiA Community!
Accelerators & Incubators
From Khartoum to Dublin, Amsterdam to Dakar, the EiA Champions Network connects you with the knowledge, acceleration and markets you need. Discover the selected EiA Champions and how you could join the community.
Entrepreneurs & Innovators
Supporting startups and micro/small and medium enterprises to accelerate and grow, through a wide variety of services ‘powered by EiA’. On both continents, you can participate in incubation programmes, gain access to finance, open innovation challenges, e-pitching sessions, partner search, soft-landing services and a community of bright-minded peers.
Investors & Corporates
Focused on innovation-by-demand and local market development, the network invites corporates and investors to engage in co-designing solutions that support key sectors, through curating Open Innovation Challenges. ENRICH in Africa connects innovators to answer these pressing matters as well as link them to investors through our community platform.
Innovation facilitators
Providing support in better understanding the requirements for innovation facilitation, ENRICH in Africa brings together the triple helix of business, academia and policy developers in both African and European countries, through both the community platform and Annual Congress.
The ENRICH in Africa community is hosted by EuroQuity, an online matchmaking platform connecting companies with investors and partners. This provides EiA Community Members to a wider community of 15000 companies (startups, SMEs, corporates), 2000 investors (VC, business angels, family offices, corporates, banks) and 1200 business support structures (e.g. incubators, accelerators).
INNOVATORS NEEDS ASSESSMENT
HELP US DELIVER YOU THE BEST INNOVATION SERVICES
From the start, we are keen to keep you, as a key innovation stakeholder at the centre of our services and activities. We invite you to share your experiences and opinions with us via a brief survey (5-10 min) so that we can bring you the services that best serve your innovation support needs.