Innovate UK World Alliance Africa has formally introduced the winners of the 2024 NextGen House Problem. This key initiative underneath the UK-Africa House Know-how for Sustainability World Innovation Community is designed to establish the subsequent technology of area know-how entrepreneurs within the UK, South Africa, Kenya, and Rwanda, and displays Africa’s rising affect within the world area sector.
Following an intense pitch occasion earlier in February, the winners have been chosen:
Local weather AI Challenge – Led by Jules Udahemuka (Rwanda), this initiative enhances the ClimeODE framework, optimizing it for Rwanda’s particular wants whereas making certain scalability to different areas.
CanSat Kenya – Led by Billy Nyaga, Brenda Chepkemoi, and Lynne Surprise Kariuki (Kenya), this STEM schooling program permits college students to design and launch CanSat satellites, fostering early curiosity in area know-how.
(WATCH THE PITCHS HERE: https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/events/nextgen-space-challenge-pitching-event/)
Alana Kruger, Data Switch Supervisor at Innovate UK Enterprise Join, emphasised the transformative impression of area know-how on industries like environmental monitoring and meals safety. In the meantime, Etim Offiong, CEO of the African House Management Institute, reiterated the problem’s position in shaping Africa’s future area leaders.
The three finest pitches obtained innovation awards of as much as £1,000.
Past entrepreneurship, the problem fosters worldwide collaboration in sustainable area know-how, supported by key companions together with the UK, South African, Kenyan, and Rwandan House Companies, the African House Management Institute (ASLI), and the International, Commonwealth and Growth Workplace (FCDO).
The competitors welcomes people or groups of as much as 4, aged 21–35 or current graduates, marking a daring step towards empowering younger innovators within the area trade.
