Research Projects and Business Ideas
Caulys
Caulys Farms offers intelligent vertical vegetable gardens designed to grow fresh, high-quality produce year-round directly on-site, eliminating the need for intermediaries. Caulys Pro provides a simple solution for large-scale production within esta…
Droople
Droople is a B2B Swiss cleantech building the Water Intelligence Platform to the World. We accelerate the adoption of sustainable practices, promote the integration of water conservation systems, and educate the value of this essential resource with…
ZPOS
Zpos, based in Lusaka, is a tech company with a grand vision: they aim to streamline business operations for every trader in Africa, regardless of their size. They believe managing a shop shouldn’t be overwhelming and that tracking profits should be…
Findworka
Findworka began in 2016 as an online marketplace connecting users with freelance experts in Africa. Evolving into a platform for digital services, it now specializes in recruiting pre-vetted tech talents and developing custom software products for am…
mfarmPay
mfarmPay leverages farm parcels, climate metrics, and satellite imagery to de-risk and enable financing for low-resourced smallholder farmers across Africa. Their streamlined digital finance platform combines data and resources to offer efficient fin…
M-Shamba
M-shamba digital platform supports digital learning on agronomy, regenerative agriculture and food safety to the farmers through the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) service, USSD and interactive SMS. The platform uses data to match demand from the m…
Hi-D Imaging
Hi-D Imaging Cardiovascular Suite is a platform that revolutionizes medical imaging processing to inform pre-procedural planning for the treatment of structural heart diseases. The Imaging Suite combines state-of-the-art technologies such as deep lea…
xFarm
xFarm Technologies is a tech company focused on the digitisation of the agri-food sector, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and stakeholders in the management of their businesses. It offers apps for farm management, connected sensor…
Securaxis SA
Securaxis turns sound into actionable insights for monitoring and exploitation of urban sound to improve cities’ operations while saving money and to answer citizens’ worries about privacy and sustainability. By combining acoustic, AI and IoT, we pro…
ETrash2Cash
About Us eTrash2Cash (eT2C Company Nigeria) is the first of its kind social enterprise in northern Nigeria, which embodies the use of technology to solve environmental problems in the low-income communities. Its web, mobile app and SMS platform helps…
Tyncbest Biotechnology
About Us: Tyncbest Biotechnology is established primarily for the research and product developments of medical devices. At the heart of this company, the product development of devices is accomplished by invention and simplified by innovation. Proble…
TyphGen
Why a test for typhoid fever • TyphGen – a rapid test for typhoid fever, 20 million cases of typhoid fever are registered annually. Majority of the cases involve children from low-income countries. • Contributes 36% of all fever-related illnesses in…
chiweto
chiweto, en enhancing farmers farm production efficiency & livelihood through MobileTech solutions, provide cow performance status diagnostic mobile phone app., information and insurance services to livestock farmers. Our services help farmers in…
CommoChain
CommoChain, a platform that brings blockchain to commodity trading, is a Swiss FinTech/CommoTech company based in Geneva. They help companies involved in the international trade of raw materials to increase operational efficiency now and in the futur…
enable | digital
enable|digital developed IT solutions for fast growing companies in emerging markets. They also provided IT advisory and implementation services to companies that provide essential products and services to their customers. enable|digital has enabled…
Onescope / Pneumoscope
Onescope, a Swiss-based company, revolutionizes the diagnosis and risk stratification of respiratory diseases with an intelligent digital stethoscope, powered by artificial intelligence, designed to automate the evaluation of lung disease. The projec…
Gugu
Gugu, an international award-winning South African-based connectivity, digital, and clean energy startup, provides people in townships and villages affordable electricity through the Gugu Energy System (uGES). The founder and CEO is Nkanyiso Madlala….
e-traid gmbh
e-traid gmbh facilitates global market access for SMEs through e-commerce, offering services that range from onboarding to shipping coordination. With a focus on key B2C marketplaces, the clientele includes private and public export development organ…
4bridges GmbH
4bridges is a company based in St. Gallen. The holding company 4cash enhances micropayments with cryptocurrencies, focusing on B2B. Through the subsidiary 4bridges, they provide a seamless API, enabling retail customers to pay in bitcoin, with the re…
Risklick
Risklick, a company based in Bern, pioneers AI solutions for clinical trial risk analysis. The data-driven tool empowers biopharma companies, CROs, and hospitals to identify similar trials and assess risks early in protocol design. With a focus on re…
NG Trail
Trail NG is a Nigeria-based ed-tech startup company that has created a platform enabling companies to identify skills gaps in their employees. The owner is Mr Mubarak Lawal of the University of Ibadan. Winner of the AIT-SASBI Spring Conference 2023.
UMbalabala
UMbalabala Education Toolkit is a collection of novel methods and apparatuses for making learning, teaching and assessment easy. Especially for Foundation Phase of education. The educational toolkit uses pedagogical methods to enhance the learning of…
Mutware Educate
Mutware Educate is an Edtech start-up company from Rwanda that aims to boost education from traditional to digital learning. They provide an education platform with curriculum-based engaging content for nursery students and adults’ self-paced learnin…
Derma2Go
Problem Research indicates that currently 69% of dermatologists are over 50 years old in Germany (Kis et al., 2017). It can be assumed that in 15 years there will be an undersupply of practicing dermatologists which implies inadequate medical care. T…
Developing an Online Teaching Course on Urban Food Systems
Dr. Lena Bloemertz, Physical Geography and Environmental Change, University of Basel, Switzerland Dr. Alex Awiti, Vice Provost East Africa and Interim Dean of The Graduate School of Media and Communications, Aga Khan University, Nairobi The aim of th…
Internet-based teaching to improve patient & health-care provider interaction in chronic diseases
International education project: Establishment of an internet-based teaching instrument using annotated videos and web-based supervision to improve patient & health-care provider interaction in chronic diseases Wolf Langewitza MD, Christof Daetwy…
IcanFarm – Kilimo ni Mali
The Problem: Access to affordable credit Over 90% of the sub-Saharan Africa’s 48 million smallholder farmers lack access to formal credit. Less than 6% of commercial loan recipients are smallholder farmers. Source: FAQ In Kenya, only about 10% of sma…
Soso Care: My Healthcare and I
About Soso Care: is a social enterprise that aims to use garbage as a financial resource to enable millions of uninsured slum dwellers especially pregnant women and kids to access micro health insurance as well as micro capital for petty trade. Our P…
Pennysmart – Next generation bank for African millennials.
One Line Pitch: Next generation bank for African millennials. Business Summary: Pennysmart is the next generation digital bank that helps Ghanaians save anytime, anywhere with no cost. We are a Tier-4 Operator under Bank of Ghana rules and regulation…
Inocul8 – Inoculated, Protected, Safe.
Problem In Africa over half a million people including adults and children die from vaccine preventable diseases: such as pneumonia, rota virus, hepatitis B, cervical cancer, typhoid fever, amongst others, due to limited access to vaccination service…
MPOWER VENTURES – eMPowering local entrepreneurs as the major driving force of solar energy in emerging markets
MPower is a tech4impact venture tackling the challenges of energy access and financial inclusion in emerging markets. As local SMEs are key to the socioeconomical development of these countries, MPower creates a B2B platform to empower the next gener…
Enable | Digital
Problem Enable has identified a significant problem in a highly underserved market: IT solutions for impact ventures in emerging markets. In order to access the market, Enable has developed both a set of innovative technologies as well as a solid pr…
CosKin-Reveals the nature of your skin
CosKin is a Swiss company developing an ultra-fast skin analysis device, thanks to multi-spectral technology. This technology is active in the field of cosmetics, especially for the treatment of skin. PROBLEM Consumers of cosmetics product are desert…
CommoChain
CommoChain is a web-based solution that allows Coffee Exporters to better track their samples and manage exporting documents. It delivers efficiency & traceability benefits to ultimately provide best coffee to clients. Pains for Coffee Exporters…
Information for international PhD Candidates
Doctoral Studies Before you begin the online application, please note the following: Degree programs An overview of the doctoral studies offered by the various faculties can be found in the information sheet: Doctoral studies issued by the specific f…
Developing joint research proposals in media & communication in various topics, e.g. “effectiveness of farmer communication”
“The Sabbatical of Christoph Spurk is used to develop various research proposals jointly with Kenyan researchers (Prof. Wambui Kiai and Dr. George Nyabuga) and make them ready for submission to donors. The idea is also to establish research cooperati…
Virtual doctoral school for the field of interpreting/multilingual communication in Africa
This project aims to develop a proof-of-concept for a Virtual doctoral school in the field of interpreting/multilingual communication between the Universities of Ghana (Accra), Nairobi and Geneva. Building on two pedagogical innovation projects in th…
Transition to e-only policies
The project aims at establishing links to African libraries in order to support common projects between the University of Basel and African universities. The supply with information is perceived as being a precondition for a fruitful collaboration in…
Strengthening Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS) Mozambique-Intro of New Approaches for Community-based Death Registration
ln low-income settings, such as in many Sub-Saharan African countries, CRVS systems are often weak. In fact, it is estimated that only 1% of the deaths in low-income countries are reported with information on causes of death. Given its multidisciplin…