Call for Applications: Joint Innovation Facility 2025 (up to €250,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Applications for the Joint Innovation Facility (JIF) 2025 at the moment are open. The Joint Innovation Facility (JIF) is a brand new Africa-Europe initiative designed to speed up innovation and to foster significant collaboration throughout ecosystems on the African continent and between Africa and Europe, to scale up transformative options that tackle shared challenges—significantly these associated to the digital transformation and the inexperienced transition.

Launched beneath the Africa-Europe Digital Innovation Bridge (AEDIB 2.0) – a forthcoming mission beneath the EU’s Global Gateway Africa-Europe Investment package deal – JIF is co-developed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and the European Union (EU). It is collectively applied by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Finnish Public Management Institute (HAUS), leveraging their mixed expertise in worldwide cooperation, innovation help and expertise in strengthening innovation ecosystems.

Focus areas

The proposed resolution should reveal measurable optimistic affect in not less than one of many following areas:

• Climate mitigation
• Climate adaptation and resilience

Benefits

Selected initiatives will profit from:

• Non-dilutive funding of 100,000 – 250,000 EUR by a milestone-primarily based grant construction;
• Tailored help by the JIF Project Studio, together with:
  • Mentorship from seasoned specialists and traders
  • Access to toolkits, funding readiness help, and technical advisory
  • Networking and peer studying alternatives throughout Africa and Europe.
• Strategic visibility, capability strengthening, and alignment with the EU–Africa partnership targets and Agenda 2063

Eligibility

They are inviting joint mission proposals from innovation consortia that:

• Consist of not less than two companions forming a consortium collaborating throughout borders (Africa-EU or completely different international locations from Sub-Saharan Africa), led by an African entity;
• Are keen to advance digitally enabled improvements (with a desire for frontier applied sciences (e.g. AI-primarily based, IoT, and so on) in local weather – mitigation, adaptation and resilience;
• Present examined options with confirmed or excessive potential for scaling and replication;
• Are grounded in native context, commercially viable, and regionally embedded;
• Are led by dedicated and succesful groups, with a observe document and technical abilities required to scale the innovation;
• Prioritize gender responsiveness;
• Require strategic funding to speed up their subsequent part of progress.

The Africa associate have to be from one of many 14 Africa mission precedence international locations, that are Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

Application

• Stage 1: Prepare your application with the required particulars and required paperwork to be submitted.
• Stage 2: Applications have to be submitted electronically by way of the web application kind and submit required paperwork by way of [email protected] electronic mail tackle.

The submission ought to embody:

• Completed digital application kind;
• All supporting paperwork as per the eligibility and choice standards.

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For extra data, go to Joint Innovation Facility.