The six award-winning German-African cooperation projects, which are funded with prize money of € 150,000, have started their work on 1 June 2020.
With the award, the BMBF honours outstanding researchers from Africa who, on the basis of their research achievements, develop innovative solutions that are adapted to the needs of the African continent and improve people's living conditions. German-African partnerships are an important success factor in this context. The innovative projects develop sustainable solutions in the fields of health care, sustainable use of resources, renewable energies and communication technologies for the inclusion of deaf people.
Awardees of the German-African Innovation Incentive Award 2020
Prof. Dr. Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Rabat, Morocco
In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Siegen
Project title: A Crowdsourcing Platform for Early Grade and STEM Vocabulary in African Sign Languages (Project AfricaSign)
Philippa Ngaju Makobore, Uganda Industrial Research Institute, Kampala, Uganda
In cooperation with Tobias Behr, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Mannheim
Project title: Improving the Safety of Infusion Therapy in Low Resource Countries: Electronically Controlled Gravity Feed Infusion Set (Project ECGF-IS)
Prof. Dr. Sami Sayadi, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, Tunisia
In cooperation with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven-Uwe Geißen, Technical University Berlin
Project title: Innovative Valorization of Olive Mill Effluents (Project InnoVa)
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Alami Merrouni, Mohammed First University, Oujda/IRESEN (Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies), Morocco
In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Ralph Gottschalg, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
Project title: Soiling Detection for PV Application and Cleaning Optimization in Arid and Semi-arid Areas of North Africa (Project SoDeCo)
Prof. Dr. Jochen Petersen, University of Cape Town, South Africa
In cooperation with Prof. Dr.Ing. Dr.h.c. Bernd Friedrich, RWTH Aachen University
Project title: Development of a Combined Thermal Pre-treatment and Hydrometallurgical Process Route for Value Recovery from e-Waste through Small-scale Recyclers in Africa (Project VaReeWa)
Dr.-Ing. Richard Arthur, Koforidua Technical University, Koforidua, Ghana
In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Dieter Bryniok, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences
Project title: Localisation, Quantification, and Utilisation of Water Hyacinth in the Volta River Based on Satellite Remote Sensing Data (Why@Volta)
Results of the second call with summaries of the projects
Information on the "German-African Innovation Incentive Award" (GAIIA) funding programme
