AIT Swiss-Africa Annual Conferences
Event: AIT Alumni Conference 2024 in Stellenbosch
AIT SASBI Conference
Date: 2024, November 20th-21th
Host: University of Basel
Venue: Cape Town, South Africa
Have you been selected at an AIT-SASBI Annual Spring Conference and then participated in a following Swiss Residency Week?
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 dedicate the Year 2024 to the issue of company growth and address various aspects of it in webinars and on-site meetings.
Read more about the big gathering of the companies in November 2024 around the topic of “Challenges of Growth”.
Link: Details and Webinars
Event: Lagos Conference 2024
AIT Swiss – Africa Annual Conference
Date: 2024, February 28th-29th
Host: University of Lagos
Co-Host: University of Ibadan
Venue: Lagos, Nigeria
The Academia – Industry Training for Swiss and African science-based entrepreneurs will convene major stakeholders from South Africa, Rwanda, Botswana, Nigeria, and Switzerland for its 3rd Annual Conference in Lagos, the uncontested business hub of Nigeria.
Are you interested in participating at the AIT Annual Conference 2024 in Lagos?
Then check out more about attending.
Swiss Residency Week 2023
AIT-SASBI Start-Ups expected in Basel
Date: 2023 Juni 18th – 27th
Host: University of Basel
The AIT-SASBI Conference on February 22nd-23rd, 2023, in Johannesburg, selected five start-ups from Rwanda, South Africa, and Nigeria for Swiss Residency seats. The Swiss Residency Week, starting June 18th, includes networking and business opportunities across Basel, Lausanne, and Zurich, and visits to Swiss institutions like EMPA, EPFL, IGE.IPI, and FH Ost, ending on June 27th. The selected start-ups are Igugu Clean Tech, Lola Green, One Trail, Rwanda Green Lighting, and Zaio.
Link: Details and Program
Conference: Social and Tech driven Innovation for Impact
AIT-SASBI Annual Spring Conference
Date: 2023, February, 22nd – 23rd
Host: EDHE – Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education
Venue: Johannesburg, South Africa
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Edwin Constable
The AIT-SASBI community invited to the annual spring conference hosted by EDHE in Johannesburg. In collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Pretoria and Universities South Africa we brought together stakeholders from entrepreneurship and innovation centers at universities of the SASBI program countries. A jury assessed startup companies that have successfully come out in South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya and Nigeria to present prototypes of their business ideas awarding a 10 days residency stay in Switzerland.
Link: Details and Preliminary Program
Event: Kigali Conference 2022
Date: 2022, March 22nd-25th
Host: University of Rwanda
The SASBI Knowledge group will meet in Kigali to discuss mechanisms of entrepreneurship building and promotion of science-based start up activities. Directors and managers of entrepreneurship and innovation centers at universities of the SASBI program countries (South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Switzerland) are invited to participate and contribute to this exchange of professionals.