Five teams of entrepreneurs from the Basque Country, Kenya and Senegal work on projects on the right to health to develop them in Africa and the Basque Country
Five teams of entrepreneurs from the Basque Country, Kenya and Senegal work on projects on the right to health to develop them in Africa and the Basque Country
Five teams of entrepreneurs from the Basque Country, Kenya and Senegal work on projects on the right to health to develop them in Africa and the Basque Country
The fourth edition of the Africa Basque Challenge (ABC) program brought together 30 young people from the Basque Country, Kenya and Senegal in a bootcamp.
To explore the possibilities of social entrepreneurship in Africa and Euskadi through multicultural teams of young Basques and young people from the African continent, thanks to multiculturalism and co-creation. Five years ago, this was the embryo of a pioneering program in Europe: Africa Basque Challenge (ABC), promoted by Mondragon Unibertsitatea through its entrepreneurship network MONDRAGON TEAM ACADEMY, Mundukide, DOT S.Coop and LKS, among others, to encourage young entrepreneurs to co-create projects to generate positive impact in both Africa and the Basque Country. The initiative, which has served to create about a dozen companies so far, most of them in Africa, celebrates its fourth edition this year, focused on projects that impact on the Right to Health, and to which the Anesvad Foundation, Diversity 4 Equality and Hahatay or MDF Kenya have joined as organizers.
Specifically, this new edition began in January in which five multicultural teams formed by a total of 30 young Basques, Kenyans and Senegalese have worked in this new edition in search of developments that contribute to work on the Right to Health in Kenya, Senegal and the Basque Country. Without going any further, a bootcamp has just been held at the BBK facilities in Urdaibai by coaches and mentors from the different collaborating organizations, with the task of polishing the business ideas and holding the final event where all initiatives have been presented to an audience and a jury composed of people from private and public entities, entrepreneurs and investors among others.
The 3 teams selected by the jury will receive support and a digital acceleration process in order to launch their initiatives and generate positive impact.
Anesvad Foundation, Mondragon Team Academy - Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Diversity 4 Equality, MDF, Hahatay together with the collaboration of BBK Fundazioa, ESTIA or U-BAI, among others, collaborate to promote new socio-business realities co-created by young people who collaborate in an intercultural way.
Origin
The program arose first from a need: to reduce inequality gaps and provide solutions to social challenges such as the urban-rural divide or the Right to Health, and second, from an opportunity: a new vision of cooperation and entrepreneurship, generating real impact through young people from different countries and providing solutions to challenges that, in different ways and in different contexts, are being experienced in all countries. In this way, the program works on shared social challenges through the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs led by the United Nations, thus co-creating local solutions with a global vision.
The launch of this Basque-African collaboration program is the first steps of the international network of entrepreneurship of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, through the Mondragon Team Academy network, on the African continent and leaves the door open to future avenues of collaboration in Africa (the only continent, along with Oceania in which this network of entrepreneurship is not present).
The following entities have collaborated in this edition: Anesvad Foundation, Moviltik, E-Lankidetza (Basque Agency for Development Cooperation), Hahatay, Initiative Developpement, Aminata, Euroregion, UPNA, ESTIA and Impact Hub Dakar.