Kickstarting businesses and development in emerging markets

Freshly launched and ready to fight NCDs!

As part of our 11th #laboftomorrow process, we are proud to announce that #HealthyTreatsGhana has successfully launched their app: https://www.healthytreatsapp.com/en/list

Healthy Treats is an online application that delivers healthy food and offers quizzes on non-communicable diseases to promote a healthy lifestyle and spread relevant knowledge.

The soft launch was well received by the media, such as GHOne TV, and marks just the beginning of Healthy Treats’ journey. Existing partnerships like N8tivebar and Kingston Kitchen GH will be expanded through the commissioning of new delivery partners. While the app is currently accessible through the Healthy Treats website, it can soon be found on the Google Playstore and Apple Store.

New year - new #opportunities: The #laboftomorrow is gearing up for another exciting year full of challenges to overcome!

You've discovered a problem? A need? Something in your environment that you think should work better or differently?

Watch our video to learn more about what we call a development "challenge", our method and toolkit and its potential for creating #social and #environmental #impact through new business solutions.

Watch the video with German or French subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZ7UZS32KY&t=129s

Happy New Year! 🎆

Looking back at 2021, we are particularly proud of the #impact we helped create. Not only were we able to successfully launch new #laboftomorrow processes, but we were also part of the #NewEconomyBooster in West Africa. 🌍
Impact Hub, with support from Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), created a program called "New Economy Booster" to help shape the post COVID-19 economic recovery in Ghana and Nigeria and support their entrepreneurs raising over 1.6 million euros. 👏

It was designed to boost innovative, impact-driven ventures by granting them access to resources, skills training, business coaching, over 300 potential investors and more. ✨

👉🏾 Watch the video here: Supporting Impact Entrepreneurs in West Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WS9vcNnrHgg
👉🏾 Learn more about the program: http://bit.ly/NewEconomyBoosterProgram

The #laboftomorrow is featured in corporAID Magazin's latest #podcast episode (DE)! 🎙️

Key points of the episode are...
🧰 the lab of tomorrow concept,
🌟#opportunities that arise for companies,
and everything about the first Austrian process in the #westernbalkans! ✨

In the interview: Lisa Zoder (lot), Dorian Wessely (Cleantech-Cluster) and Edith Mychalewicz (ADA). Listen in now! 🎧 https://bit.ly/3yHp6tv

The application phase for the 15th #laboftomorrow in #Serbia is now open! 🚀 Sign up and join a hand-selected group of companies to improve #biogenicwaste management in the #WesternBalkans! 🗑️♻️

The #Austrian lab of tomorrow aims to improve the value-chain in Serbian waste management starting with waste collection and separation to a productive use of biogenic residue from waste collection.✨We collected the key facts about the program for you and are looking forward to your applications!

⏲️Quick facts: Application deadline: 15.02.2022
Date of Ideation Sprint: 04.04.-08.04.2022
Venue: Belgrade, Serbia (specific venue tbc)
Duration of Incubation: 3 months

Stay updated and follow the process in the LinkedIn group 🚀 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12581479/

We are going live at the xFestival today!🎙️
Eric Schuetz (lab of tomorrow) will be joined by Jost Neumann (TUI Care Foundation) to talk about market-based solutions for impact in tourism destinations at the biggest tourism event, the xFestival, at 14:50 GMT/15:50 CET today. ✨ Get your ticket and join our panel session! 🎟️

https://www.xfestival.travel/

#digitalwildlifenamibia #tourism #socialimpact #socialinnovation #VenturePhilanthropy

Today was the final pitch event of our 12th #laboftomorrow process towards increasing trust in #eCommerce in South-Eastern Europe! Three teams showed what solutions they’ve got ready for the eCommerce market! A big thank you to everyone, who supported our teams.

Today is the final pitch night of our 14th #laboftomorrow process towards a circular food system in #Rwanda! 🌾 Six teams with circular food solutions are eager to go-to-market and pitch their business models in front of a top-class jury! 🙌

We have good news for you!The deadline of our #laboftomorrow process for a #digitalwildlifenamibia has been extended to December 15th, 2021!🎉

If you are part of the tourism, digitalization, or biodiversity sector, join the Ideation Sprint in Windhoek #Nambia from 14.-17.02.2022 to make a change. 🦁📷 Find out more and apply here 👉🏾 https://bit.ly/lot16_Namibia

#biodiversity #conservation

We had a great kickoff with the students from HPI today and are super excited to see what comes out of this project! 🥳🙌

Check out this tweet! 

Find us on @LeveristApp! 🚀 We are looking for companies, who want to make drone safaris, VR wildlife expeditions and gamified nature protection a reality in #Namibia! 📷🦓 Sign up until the 31st of October 2021! ✨
https://bit.ly/leverist_lot16
#digitalwildlifenamibia

What does it mean to become part of the #laboftomorrow community? Check out impressions from the 14th process "Towards a Circular Food System in #Rwanda" co-initiated by the @HSGStGallen and the @SwissDevCoop. 🌾 🔁

lab of tomorrow (lot) 14: Towards a Circular Food System in Rwanda - YouTube

Do you want to create exciting digital products and services, that can help preserve Namibia’s wildlife? 🦒🐘 📷

The application phase for our 16th lab of tomorrow process in #Namibia is now open! 🚀

Be part of a selected group of companies and profit from coaching, access to investors and the startup ecosystem to help protect Namibia‘s biodiversity!
Apply here 👉🏾 https://bit.ly/lot16_Namibia

⏲️Quick facts:
Application Deadline: 31.10.2021
Dates for Innovation Sprint: 29.11.21 - 02.12.21
Venue: Windhoek, Namibia (specific venue tba)

#laboftomorrow #biodiversity #digitalwildlifenamibia

Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. 🥭❌🗑️

Did you know that about one-third of the food produced for human consumption worldwide - about 1.3 billion tons - is lost or wasted on its way from field to plate 🥭🐟🥛⁉️

David Brand gave an interview about our lot processes concerning food loss and waste, success stories and our vision for the future! ✨🚀

Find the article here:
https://www.weltohnehunger.org/full-article/how-can-the-private-sector-…

Call for Applications: Atos and GIZ host the ICT 4 Inclusion Challenge and are looking for digital innovations improving access to education for persons with disabilities in Africa. Find out more here!

4 new #laboftomorrow ventures are on the verge of putting NCDs in Ghana in their place! Our 11th #lot ended today with those 4 venture teams pitching their businesses to potential investors. Congratulations to the teams on their great pitches!

Our 16th #laboftomorrow process is about to begin! Did you know that despite being the most arid sub-Saharan African country, Namibia owns a remarkable biodiversity? #lot 16 seeks to protect this biodiversity by creating digital business solutions.

Yet another #laboftomorrow Innovation Sprint came to a close this week! Lot 14 is all about contributing to a circular food system in Kigali/Rwanda and 36 participants from 30 companies took on this challenge.

Congrats to the #lot 12 teams on 4 great business ideas! The process’ Innovation Sprint ended today with a presentation of the business models in front of an expert jury. Stay tuned as the teams will refine their models in the incubation phase!

BMZ and and Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft awarded Polycare and Helioz the German Entrepreneurship Award for Development2021! The projects contribute to affordable solid housing in Africa and clean potable water in India.

Here’s to the start of the 12th #laboftomorrow Innovation Sprint! Increasing trust in eCommerce in South-Eastern Europe– that’s the challenge that four interdisciplinary teams will work on during the next two weeks by ideating and designing business models.

Austria goes #lot! Our 15th #laboftomorrow process just started and it is all about the utilization of biogenic waste in the Western Balkans. Together with our Austrian co-initiators we are working on identifying actionable sub-challenges. 

Two new #laboftomorrow ventures will turn the Kenyan market upside down! Both business models contribute to reducing food losses in the country and were developed in the 13th lot process, which successfully ended today.

Venture update! Created in our 6th #laboftomorrow process, ‘Electricity and Fiber to the village’ (E-/FTTV) successfully develops the electricity grid in rural Uganda. Learn more about their business model and achievements in the video. 

Our #laboftomorrow mentors welcome a new addition! Barbara Diehl is a proven expert in entrepreneurship, innovation and education and will from now on support our venture teams in developing their business ideas.

Did you know that in South-Eastern Europe, the number of online shoppers only ranges between 3% and 32%? Join our 12th #laboftomorrow process and help tackle the challenge of increasing trust in eCommerce in the region. Application is now open.

New Economy Booster Closing Event on April 8. Impact Hub invites you to look back on one year of providing entrepreneurs in Africa with new skills and resources to develop impactful businesses despite the pandemic!

26 representatives from 19 European and Tunisian companies came together during this week’s #laboftomorrow Innovation Sprint and co-created 4 business model sketches to tackle the challenge!