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The Joint Innovation Facility (JIF) is a new Africa-Europe initiative designed to accelerate innovation and to foster meaningful collaboration across ecosystems on the African continent and between Africa and Europe, to scale up transformative solutions that address shared challenges, particularly those related to the digital transformation and the green transition.
The JIF drives systemic change by:
- Empowering local and global leadership: African partners lead innovation consortia, ensuring ownership and long-term impact
- Harnessing the power of digital innovation partnerships across borders in Africa and between Africa and Europe
- Addressing global challenges: State-of-the-Art solutions focus on digital transformation, climate-positive outcomes, and societal inclusion
- Scaling impact: Solutions are designed to be regionally embedded, replicable, and commercially viable.
Learn more about the call for proposals here
The JIF is inviting joint project proposals from innovation consortia that:
- Consist of at least two partners forming a consortium collaborating across borders (Africa-EU or Different countries from Sub-Saharan Africa), led by an African entity;
- Are eager to advance digitally enabled innovations (with a preference for frontier technologies (e.g. AI-based, IoT, etc) in climate – mitigation, adaptation and resilience;
- Present tested solutions with proven or high potential for scaling and replication;
- Are grounded in local context, commercially viable, and regionally embedded;
- Are led by committed and capable teams, with a track record and technical skills required to scale the innovation;
- Prioritize gender responsiveness;
- Require strategic funding to accelerate their next phase of growth.
The African partner must be from one of the 14 African project priority countries, which are Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Learn more about the eligibility criteria here