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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!

Last but not least we present the fourth of our new #laboftomorrow mentors: Jonathan Lehman. He used to drive #innovation for the UN’s World Food Program and will now be supporting our ventures.

A new #laboftomorrow Innovation Sprint started today and this time the topic is monitoring and controlling waste and water use in Tunisia’s agri-food industry: Teams of 19 European and Tunisian companies will take on this challenge.

It has been a while since you last heard from our #laboftomorrow mentors and it is about time we introduce Ralph Riecke: He is an #expert on  corporate #innovation initiatives and will be supporting our venture teams in developing their businesses.

The virtual innovation sprint of the #laboftomorrow 11 is concluded! After a final pitch in front of an expert jury, the teams will now have four months to test and refine their business models.
 

For #InternationalWomensDay and #Genderweek, we present inspiring female entrepreneurs. One of them is Yvonne who took part in our #laboftomorrow process and developed a business idea that helps reduce food waste in Kenya.

The virtual innovation sprint for the #laboftomorrow 11 has successfully been kicked-off! The six teams dove deep into ideating, testing and designing #prototypes that help solve the challenge of preventing and controlling #NCDs in Ghana.

Last week we started introducing our new #laboftomorrow mentors. Meet now Magnus Schückes, business model and #startup choach and one of the mentors who support our venture teams in developing their #innovations.

You run an #innovative small and growing business delivering environmental, social or economic #impacts? Then you might be interested in the #SEEDAwards2021! Application is now open!

We have news to announce! From now on there are #laboftomorrow mentors supporting the venture teams in further developing their business ideas during the #incubation phase.

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Do you have a strong interest in the agri-food industry and expertise in Industry 4.0? Great news for you: the application phase for our 10th lab of tomorrow process in #Tunesia is now open!

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Missed the web event Global Green Recovery of corporAID Magazin?

Find all the highlights and insights here https://bit.ly/36FJ3El. Or watch the video below.

#AustrianDevelopmentCooperation #SGDs

At the Global Green Recovery web event of corporAID Magazin, #AustrianDevelopmentCooperation laid the foundation for their first #laboftomorrow process together with its partners! The lot process will focus on biogenic residuals in the West Balkans.

We are starting another #laboftomorrow process this year! Together with the Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe - Foreign Trade we tackle the challenge of increasing the trust in #ecommerce in the CEFTA region Check our website for updates https://bit.ly/3altGSj

⏰ Application is now open: Join our 11th #laboftomorrow process and help develop business-driven solutions for the prevention and control of #NCDs! 🚑 bit.ly/3fCK96O NCDs or non-communicable diseases are diseases that are not transmissible from person... (read more).

An effective way to fight #coronavirus? Health skills! @atingi_elearn, an e-learning platform implemented by GIZ, is launching their #contestagainstcorona. Play alone, in teams or as an organisation to learn valuable facts and win great prizes! http://contest.atingi.org #CAC