Descripción del proyecto
Establecer asociaciones entre innovadores europeos y africanos
La Unión Europea (UE) se ha comprometido a reforzar la cooperación y las asociaciones estratégicas con los países de África, y la innovación digital es un área de interés. En concreto, el objetivo es reforzar los centros de innovación digital (CID) existentes en África y facilitar la colaboración entre los CID de la UE y África. A su vez, esto se traducirá en el fortalecimiento de un ecosistema común de innovación y creación de empresas entre la UE y África. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos AEDIB|NET desarrollará infraestructuras clave y creará mecanismos de cooperación estratégica. Además, fomentará actividades puente sobre el desarrollo de capacidades técnicas y la transferencia de tecnología entre innovadores y nuevas empresas de África y Europa, agentes del sector privado, el mundo académico, administraciones locales e inversores.
Objetivo
In the scope of the ICT-58 call, AEDIB|NET has the objective to strengthen a common African European digital innovation ecosystem by supporting local digital innovation and start-up ecosystems in Africa and facilitating the collaboration between European and African DIHs. AEDIB|NET aims to build on the experience of European DIHs, and adapt the approach to the African context in order to facilitate synergies and collaboration potential. This includes developing and strengthening key infrastructure such as a Pan-African network of DIHs, as well as building strategic cooperation mechanisms and facilitating bridging activities on technical capacity building and technology transfer between African and European innovators and start-ups, SMEs, private sector actors, academia, local governments and investors. In addition, AEDIB|NET will foster the development of an enabling environment that is reinforced by conducive local policies. The African consortium partners are the cornerstones of the African digital innovation ecosystem and have the strength of bringing together relevant policymakers (i4policy, SAS), supporting innovators and start-ups in Innovation Hubs (AfriLabs, Digital Africa) and investors (ABAN, VC4A). Their expertise is core to successfully building networks on the continent and beyond. The European consortium partners contribute experience in fostering innovation, entrepreneurship and investment, as well as the establishment of and networking between DIHs (FundingBox, Steinbeis, EBN, EBAN, Civitta). Thereby, in the scope of AEDIB|NET, these partners ensure full access to the European innovation ecosystem, DIHs and experience of the efforts made by the EU in the past.
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Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-ICT-2020-2
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