Funded by the European Union, under its Horizon 2020 programme, ENRICH in Africa (https://enrich-in-africa-project.eu/) is a project designed to bring together core stakeholders from Europe and Africa in order to support and strengthen the innovation ecosystem in both regions. SPI is part of a consortium of 12 organisations.
SPI (https://www.spi.pt/en/), represented by Dr. Sara Medina, Pedro Monteiro and Diogo Teles, hosted a Learning Expedition that took place in Porto, Portugal, started on the 28th of May and ended on the 2nd of June. It supported African entrepreneurs and SME’s with the objective of discovering the Portuguese Market.
For that purpose, there were numerous meetings and visits to the installations of some of the best universities/organisation in Portugal in the technology and innovation area, such as UPTEC (https://uptec.up.pt/), CEiiA (https://www.ceiia.com/), ANJE (https://www.anje.pt/), IRIS (https://iris-social.org/), Católica Porto Business School (https://catolicabs.porto.ucp.pt/) and Lionesa Business Hub (https://www.lionesa.pt/?hsLang=en).
In addition, in the last two days, the participants had the opportunity to attend the FIN event (https://www.finportugal.com/pt/event-details-registration/fin-portugal-2023), in Braga. The event had an emphasis in business networking and knowledge sharing. In that note, a series of activities were promoted, such as conferences with speakers, workshops, business matching meetings and parallel events.
There, Dr. Sara Medina conducted a presentation with the intent of presenting the ENRICH in Africa project and the Learning Expedition.
We would like to thank everyone that made this Learning Expedition a reality.