Description du projet
Créer des partenariats entre innovateurs européens et africains
L’UE s’est engagée à renforcer sa coopération et ses partenariats stratégiques avec les pays d’Afrique, et l’innovation numérique constitue un de ses domaines d’intérêt. Plus précisément, son objectif est de renforcer les pôles d’innovation numérique (PIN) existants en Afrique et de faciliter la collaboration entre les PIN européens et africains. Cela permettra également de renforcer un écosystème commun UE-Afrique pour l’innovation et les start-up. Dans ce contexte, le projet AEDIB|NET financé par l’UE développera des infrastructures clés et mettra en place des mécanismes de coopération stratégique. De plus, il encouragera les activités de rapprochement en matière de renforcement des capacités techniques et de transfert de technologie entre les innovateurs et les start-up africains et européens, les acteurs du secteur privé, les universités, les gouvernements locaux et les investisseurs.
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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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