The French South African Tech Labs is a non-profit company based in Cape Town South Africa that supports startups establish and grow. With support from Methys, The French Embassy in South Africa and Seda (a government department in South Africa), FSAT labs is perfectly positioned to grow relationships between France and South Africa and grow cross-border innovation efforts and support startups on their journey to establish in Africa. For more info please visit www.fsatlabs.com.

Please email contact@fsatlabs.co.za.

ENRICH in AFRICA is a EU-Africa network launched in january 2021, building capacity for European and African innovation actors, officially kicks-off activities.

EiA will be delivering capacity-building services for its members, the incubators and accelerators across Europe and Africa, promoting networking opportunities, developing high-quality soft-landing services, and fostering incubation and acceleration support that strengthens innovators’ capacity to establish themselves in the other continent. EiA will also help innovators reach out to investors, innovation centres, and partners in the European and African ecosystems to develop business creation coupled with market development, increasing chances for successful outcomes.

The EIA consortium is composed by Steinbeis 21 (Germany), Impact Hub (Austria), European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN – Belgium), Sociedade Portuguesa De Inovação (SPI - Portugal) Agorize (France), Bondy Innovation (France), Co-Creation Hub (Nigeria), I-Hub (Kenya), Methys (South Africa), FSAT Labs (South Africa), Science Technology and Innovation Policy Research Organisation (Tanzania), BPI France (France).

By submitting an application, candidates commit to being available for the entire period of the program.

The program will take place from September 2021 to November 2021 and no exceptions to these dates can be made.

The application form should be filled in by a person entitled to represent the company regardless of the fact that he/she is the CEO.

If you haven’t received a confirmation e-mail within 48 hours after you submitted your application, please reach to the organizers team by writing at the following e-mail: contact@fsatlabs.co.za

The selection will take place in two phasis. Initially, 20 projects will be pre-selected. They will then be judged by a test at the end of which 10 will be chosen to benefit from a soft landing.

The jury will evaluate the projects according to different criteria defined below:

• Business model

• Added value and impact

• Business potential

• Financial criteria

• Potential of international development

The program is aimed at connecting entrepreneurs based in Europe to the African entrepreneurial ecosystem. Participating in the program does not force you to expand your company to Africa. However the program is a means to make expanding to Africa easier when the time is right.. It is therefore preferable for the candidates to have an idea of why, where and when they want to expand their operations to Africa.

No. The main operations of your company must be based in Europe.

As the primary base of the softlanding program will be in Cape Town, South Africa and the local language of business is English, candidates are required to be proficient in English. All program content will be presented in English.

Services offered by the FSAT Labs softlanding program powered by Enrich in Africa as well as the coworking space for 3 months in the FSAT Labs incubator is free of charge.

If selected the startup/business will have to cover the costs of transportation (flights and local), accommodation (for atleast one month), visas and sustenance. This is estimated @ Euro 4000.

Applicants should fill in the form as can be found in the Enrich in Africa website.

The call for application is open to any company that meets the requirements of the eligibility criterias regardless of it’s sector of activity.

• Be at least two years old

• Have a turnover of at least 50 000 € in 2020

• Have at least 2 employees and/or co-founders

• Main operations/Headquarters in Europe.

The objective of the call for application is to identify and then source 10 European headquartered startups or small-medium sized businesses that would like to expand their businesses to Africa.