One-Stop Shop to Add Value for African and European Businesses

CSR Europe is working with leading multinational companies to create an innovation hub for skills and business development in key african countries. Does your company have sustainability projects in Morocco, Zambia? Or is your company interested in expanding its activities in these countries? Register for the web meeting on March 4th  and discover the benefits of joining the  Collaborative Platform on“Sustainable and Upgraded Value Chains in Europe & Africa”.

CSR Europe is engaging leading multinational companies active in both Europe and Africa to leverage existing African innovation hubs for skills and business development. As a result, companies will enhance their capacity to innovate and penetrate growing African markets. In this business-led collaborative platform on “Sustainable and Upgraded Value Chains in Europe and Africa”, multinational companies, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), entrepreneurs and young people entering the labor market will foster:

  • Skills Development: Digital, Life and Soft Skills; Entrepreneurship; Data & Artificial Intelligence; Business-education Partnerships.

  • Business Development and financial support to implement sustainable innovations across the value chain.

Benefits for Multinational Companies Joining the Platform

  1. Equip your company with a skilled workforce for your African operations;

  2. Explore business opportunities and gain access to stronger sustainable suppliers and/or customers;

  3. Develop a vibrant and sustainable local economy;

  4. Engage with policymakers in the framework of the Africa-EU Digital Economy Partnership.

In 2020, the platform will focus on the establishment of two innovation hubs in Morocco and Zambia where partners will leverage combined corporate efforts for skills and business development projects.

How? Our next steps:

  • Scoping and fact finding – April 2020

  • Development of a roadmap for action – May 2020

  • Launch of the Platform in Brussels – 25 June, 2020

  • Workshops in proposed countries to align partners – August/September 2020

  • Platform meeting in Brussels – December 2020

  • Action Plan on how to leverage corporates’ efforts for skills and business development - December 2020

 

For more information:

Soni Kanabar,

Project Manager, CSR Europe

EUAFRICA, MATERIALS, CSR EUROPEDaria Delnevo