Kickstarting businesses and development in !!!emerging!!! markets
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The lot programme
Find out how sustainable and profitable business models are created in lab of tomorrow programme and where you can get involved.
Development challenge
Understand local needs
Ideate solutions
Incubate business
Sustainable business
How it works
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Ventures
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Our track record
The lab of tomorrow has been the programme of choice by GIZ projects, the Austrian and the Swiss Development Agencies as well as companies to solve specific development challenges all over the world.
Your opportunities
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Develop your business in emerging markets
Solve your development
challenge
Initiate a lab of
tomorrow process to:
- Generate innovative and viable business solutions addressing a challenge.
- Join forces with actors from the EU and local emerging markets, from the private sector but also politics and science.
- Profit from their expertise, access to markets & technologies as well as available resources.
Develop your business in emerging markets
Solve your development
challenge
Initiate a lab of
tomorrow process to:
- Generate innovative and viable business solutions addressing a challenge.
- Join forces with actors from the EU and local emerging markets, from the private sector but also politics and science.
Invest in solutions and support innovations
Solve your development
challenge
Initiate a lab of
tomorrow process to:
- Generate innovative and viable business solutions addressing a challenge.
How it works
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Any questions?
Ready to invest
Become a partner or mentor
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Ready to create impact?
Toolkit
Conducting your own lab of tomorrow process and needing the right tools?
The toolkit supports you in conducting your own lab of tomorrow process by giving you all the materials you need.
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Currently running challenges
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Energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions in Ghana
This challenge is in phase: Understand target
How might we improve energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions for businesses across Ghana’s agricultural value chain?
Join us in building business solutions for Ghana's cooling sector – solutions that are commercially viable, impactful, and scalable.
lot 32 offers you:
- Verified business opportunities and access to a new market
We match you with relevant European and African business partners based on common business interests and complementary resources.
Co-create concrete business models in a four-day workshop using the design thinking method.
Pitch your business solution to a panel of experts and potential partners to gather feedback on feasibility, innovation, and impact potential.
- The strongest teams can apply to receive incubation support to further develop and pilot their business ideas.
This lab of tomorrow is conducted in partnership with GIZ Ghana's renewable energy and energy efficiency project.
Partners
01
Understand
Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector is becoming increasingly important across fisheries, agriculture, food processing, retail, hospitality, and food distribution. With growing demand for temperature-sensitive products, reliable and efficient cooling infrastructure is essential to reduce post-harvest losses, preserve product quality, and strengthen local value chains. At the same time, many existing refrigeration systems are energy-intensive, rely on outdated technologies, and lack modern controls, while businesses face high electricity costs and growing pressure to transition away from high-global-warming-potential refrigerants.
These challenges create significant opportunities to modernize Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector. Companies are increasingly looking for solutions that can:
- Improve the energy efficiency of existing and new refrigeration and cold-storage systems through optimized compressors and fans, variable-speed drives, smart controls, sensors, and remote monitoring.
- Support the transition to climate-friendly refrigerants and more sustainable refrigeration technologies.
- Strengthen cold-chain infrastructure, technical capacity, maintenance services, and temperature-controlled logistics.
To unlock these opportunities, local stakeholders are looking for reliable technology providers, engineering companies, service providers, and business model innovators to jointly develop scalable solutions. Through the Lab of Tomorrow Business Development Programme, interested German and European companies are invited to explore new products, services, and business models for the modernization of Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector.
Business Opportunities
Welcome to lot32!
Application deadline:
January 9, 2027
Dates for Innovation Sprint:
February 2027, exact dates tbd
Venue:
Accra, exact venue tbd
Energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions in Ghana
This challenge is in phase: Understand target
How might we improve energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions for businesses across Ghana’s agricultural value chain?
Join us in building business solutions for Ghana's cooling sector – solutions that are commercially viable, impactful, and scalable.
lot 32 offers you:
- Verified business opportunities and access to a new market
We match you with relevant European and African business partners based on common business interests and complementary resources.
Co-create concrete business models in a four-day workshop using the design thinking method.
Pitch your business solution to a panel of experts and potential partners to gather feedback on feasibility, innovation, and impact potential.
- The strongest teams can apply to receive incubation support to further develop and pilot their business ideas.
This lab of tomorrow is conducted in partnership with GIZ Ghana's renewable energy and energy efficiency project.
Partners
01
Understand
Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector is becoming increasingly important across fisheries, agriculture, food processing, retail, hospitality, and food distribution. With growing demand for temperature-sensitive products, reliable and efficient cooling infrastructure is essential to reduce post-harvest losses, preserve product quality, and strengthen local value chains. At the same time, many existing refrigeration systems are energy-intensive, rely on outdated technologies, and lack modern controls, while businesses face high electricity costs and growing pressure to transition away from high-global-warming-potential refrigerants.
These challenges create significant opportunities to modernize Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector. Companies are increasingly looking for solutions that can:
- Improve the energy efficiency of existing and new refrigeration and cold-storage systems through optimized compressors and fans, variable-speed drives, smart controls, sensors, and remote monitoring.
- Support the transition to climate-friendly refrigerants and more sustainable refrigeration technologies.
- Strengthen cold-chain infrastructure, technical capacity, maintenance services, and temperature-controlled logistics.
To unlock these opportunities, local stakeholders are looking for reliable technology providers, engineering companies, service providers, and business model innovators to jointly develop scalable solutions. Through the Lab of Tomorrow Business Development Programme, interested German and European companies are invited to explore new products, services, and business models for the modernization of Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector.
Business Opportunities
Welcome to lot32!
Application deadline:
January 9, 2027
Dates for Innovation Sprint:
February 2027, exact dates tbd
Venue:
Accra, exact venue tbd
Energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions in Ghana
This challenge is in phase: Understand target
How might we improve energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions for businesses across Ghana’s agricultural value chain?
Join us in building business solutions for Ghana's cooling sector – solutions that are commercially viable, impactful, and scalable.
lot 32 offers you:
- Verified business opportunities and access to a new market
We match you with relevant European and African business partners based on common business interests and complementary resources.
Co-create concrete business models in a four-day workshop using the design thinking method.
Pitch your business solution to a panel of experts and potential partners to gather feedback on feasibility, innovation, and impact potential.
- The strongest teams can apply to receive incubation support to further develop and pilot their business ideas.
This lab of tomorrow is conducted in partnership with GIZ Ghana's renewable energy and energy efficiency project.
Partners
01
Understand
Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector is becoming increasingly important across fisheries, agriculture, food processing, retail, hospitality, and food distribution. With growing demand for temperature-sensitive products, reliable and efficient cooling infrastructure is essential to reduce post-harvest losses, preserve product quality, and strengthen local value chains. At the same time, many existing refrigeration systems are energy-intensive, rely on outdated technologies, and lack modern controls, while businesses face high electricity costs and growing pressure to transition away from high-global-warming-potential refrigerants.
These challenges create significant opportunities to modernize Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector. Companies are increasingly looking for solutions that can:
- Improve the energy efficiency of existing and new refrigeration and cold-storage systems through optimized compressors and fans, variable-speed drives, smart controls, sensors, and remote monitoring.
- Support the transition to climate-friendly refrigerants and more sustainable refrigeration technologies.
- Strengthen cold-chain infrastructure, technical capacity, maintenance services, and temperature-controlled logistics.
To unlock these opportunities, local stakeholders are looking for reliable technology providers, engineering companies, service providers, and business model innovators to jointly develop scalable solutions. Through the Lab of Tomorrow Business Development Programme, interested German and European companies are invited to explore new products, services, and business models for the modernization of Ghana’s refrigeration and cold-chain sector.
Business Opportunities
Welcome to lot32!
Application deadline:
January 9, 2027
Dates for Innovation Sprint:
February 2027, exact dates tbd
Venue:
Accra, exact venue tbd
Challenge in spotlight
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Energy efficient and climate friendly cooling solutions in Ghana
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