AIT Swiss-Africa
Alumni Meeting 2024

Celebration of 10+ years of Swiss (South) African AIT Program

2024 will give us the opportunity to celebrate 10+ years of joint university – entrepreneurship action. With start-up companies selected along these years and many of them operating successfully today, we will celebrate with our alumni and our partners in November in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Starting with a Swiss – South African approach, the program and its focus on initiating and strengthening collaboration in research and innovation has grown into a multinational venture involving Switzerland and South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana.

Funded on the Swiss side by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) since 2007 participating countries have been contributing in-cash and in-kind to the successful development of this program. Strong partners emerged as the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) in South Africa, the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) of Universities South Africa (USAf), Ministries, Embassies, Universities, private sector stakeholders. They all have been contributing in an important way to take this program to the level at which we can enjoy it today.

We are very much looking forward to meeting you at the AIT Swiss-Africa Alumni Meeting 2024!

Have a look at the program!

Read more about 10 years of the Swiss-South Africa Joint Research Program (SSAJRP).
SSAJRP 2008 – 2018

Watch and Download the Video Here in Fullscreen HD

The AIT Swiss-Africa Alumni Meeting 2024 brought together investors, companies and university members, fostering meaningful discussions that already led to first collaborations and strong networks. It’s inspiring to see such connections emerge—hopefully, they will grow into long-standing partnerships!

Webinar Series

You will find the announcement of our upcoming preparation webinars for the AIT Swiss-Africa Alumni Meeting.

Webinar Series – SARECO

Interviews with our AIT Start-Up Companies

Read the key messages about the journey of our prominent AIT companies:
Download Growth challenges and Benefits of the AIT Swiss Africa Program

Vision and the (self-) leadership it requires:

Staffing your company:

Recommended reading (on meaningful goal setting): Measure what Matters, John Doerr

Are you interested in reading the whole Interview?
Download the Full-Text-Interview here

More portraits and interviews about our AIT companies will follow.
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