Learn more about AEDIB|NET
The AEDIB|NET project is the first step of a broader approach for the African–European collaboration on digitalisation and innovation. The project being launched under the broader political initiative AEDIB. Initiated by EU Member States (France, Belgium, and Germany) and the European Commission to the EC’s Digital 4 Development process (D4D).
Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and coordinated by GIZ in Germany, AEDIB|NET brings together a network of strong partners from the African and European innovation ecosystem with the ambition to:
Inspire
the ecosystem actors by developing a supportive innovation policy framework for innovation, building capacity of marginalised groups and enhancing digital and entrepreneurship skills via Digital Entrepreneur Skills Academy.
Create
Digital Innovation by establishing African Digital Innovation Hubs, Digital Hub Lab, online marketplaces with virtual communities and investor networks. The ADIHs will focus on four topics: Climate Smart Agriculture, Smart Cities, Digital Trade and Clean Tech.
Connect
Start-ups, SMEs, DIHs, diaspora and others African and European ecosystem players in trans-continental partnerships to facilitate inter-continental collaboration and the creation of a common digital innovation ecosystem.
Consortium Partners
African Business Angel Network
Growing a pan-African network of Angel Investors
AfriLabs
a network organization that supports 400 innovation centers across 52 African countries.
CIVITTA
CIVITTA is a leading independent management consultancy in Emerging Europe
Digital Africa
The accelerator of African digital talents
EBAN – European Business Angels Network
Driving Successful and Responsible Angel Investing in Europe
EBN – European Business & Innovation Centre Network
We are on a mission to connect, and support economic & sustainable development in EU regions - and beyond.
Enabel
Belgian development agency executes the Belgian governmental cooperation.
Expertise France
Projects, solutions, impacts.
AEDIB|NET ADIHs
The AEDIB|NET project will establish ADIHs with 4 technological focuses, which have been pre-identified as digital innovation priority
Cities and Communities of all sizes can become smart utilizing digital technologies to improve the quality of life of their citizens, harnessing ICT to absorb information and communicate with innovators and other communities.
Digital trade refers to digitally enabled, or digitally delivered, trade in goods and services. Digital trade accounts for a growing share of (international) trade, happening across all sectors of the economy. It refers to both the digitalization of international trade, as well as the overall growth of e-commerce.
A cooperation between African and European digital innovation ecosystems to address global warming and the preservation of our natural environments can result in very important outcomes, and a specially interesting area for the development of digital innovations and solutions.
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) includes a range of proven and innovative practices that increase productivity, strengthen climate resilience and reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions.