Deadline: 15-Jun-22
The Expertise France is pleased to launch the MEET Africa (Mobilisation Européenne pour l’Entrepreneuriat en Afrique) to support and accompany inspiring projects led by actors from the African diaspora. The mobilisation of support networks in Europe and Africa is one of the conditions for the success of the projects that will be developed.
Objectives
The objective of MEET Africa 2 is to renew, strengthen and expand the mobilization of the talents and financial resources of the African diaspora in Europe and/or newly resettled on the African continent.
MEET Africa has the following specific objectives to:
- Strengthen the skills and ecosystem of entrepreneurship support actors
- Building dia spora entrepreneurs’ skills and equity
Categories
The aim of the competition is to award prizes to two categories of candidates:
- 2/3 of candidates with business creation projects, still at the stage of the project idea, proof of concept or first start-up (creation less than one year).
- 1/3 of entrepreneurs whose business is in the start-up phase and whose existence is less than three years and more than one year.
MEET Africa support
- Creating a network
- The MEET Africa Hub offers you:
- Accompanying you here and there
- Setting up a business is a real learning curve that is difficult to envisage when you are on your own.
- The good news is that 87% of incubated companies are sustainable. Under the supervision of support operators and coaching structures, you benefit, depending on your needs:
- From support in the dual space (Europe – Africa)
- From a coaching service, advice, workshops, training…
- From a link with support actors in Africa.
- Offer you seed funding
- Funding is a key element of business start-ups. MEET Africa offers entrepreneurs with mature projects endowment funding for:
- Accelerate your development
- Mobilize additional funding.
- You are the entrepreneur, you remain at the center of the decisions and set the pace for your progress.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants from MEET Africa partner countries
- Applicants must belong to the diaspora of one of the following six countries and set up their project there: Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali, or Cameroon.
- Applicants from other countries.
- Pre-registered candidates from other African countries can also submit their project. (Only one project per candidate).
- They will benefit from an orientation that will allow them to identify the weak points of their project, to deepen their entrepreneurial ideas, to be informed about the different stages of business creation, or to be oriented towards the existing tools to support the emergence of proje cts.
- Eligible Candidates
- This competition is open to:
- Applicants from the diaspora of the project partner countries residing in one of the European Union member states.
- Diaspora entrepreneurs from these countries who have been resettled in one of the partner countries for less than three years at the time of application.
- This competition is open to:
For more information, visit https://www.meetafrica.fr/en/