AfroSkills is organising this year's first Africa Skills Week under the theme: "Advancing Knowledge and Skills Strategies in Africa".

Africa Skills Week brings together African knowledge institutions, thought leaders, facilitators and knowledge seekers and many other stakeholders. It is a place to catalyse human capital development and promote Africa as a knowledge continent and a destination for investment in research and development (R&D) and innovation.

It will also be an opportunity to meet talent and discover business ideas that can be developed into successful startups and companies.

During this African Skills Week, an African Business Ideas Competition will be organised to meet, identify and support innovative and entrepreneurial ideas from African students, entrepreneurs and researchers.

So, whether you are or have been :

• Student, researcher or academic staff (teacher, professor) at a university, research institute or higher education institution
• Entrepreneur or innovator even without a university degree in Africa
• Interesting ideas that can be turned into a commercially viable start-up

We invite you to participate in the AfroSkills 2022 Business Idea Competition. You can win prizes and receive support from experts to develop your idea or project into a successful business. This year's competition focuses on green entrepreneurship. We invite all innovative ideas that can be turned into successful startups and businesses to participate.

The purpose of this information session is therefore to:

• to present more explicitly the Africa Skills Week with its particularities, and its advantages for each participant.
• Present the African Business Ideas Competition and the features and benefits of the competition for participants, including those who do not reach the final or win prizes.

• Presenting Africa Skills Week
• To arouse the interest of potential participants
• Show each stakeholder the benefits of participating in this event
• Presenting the African Business Ideas Competition
• Show each potential participant the benefits of participating in the competition even if they do not reach the final or win a prize

• What is Africa Skills Week
• Why participate in this event
• How to register for ASW
• The different tickets available and their details
• How to import your project
• What is an exhibition stand in ASW and how to get one
• How to become a speaker
• What is the African Business Ideas Competition
• Why enter the competition (benefits)
• How to apply for the competition
• The different tickets available and their details
• How to submit your idea
• The different stages of the competition
• The different sponsorship prizes available
• How to become a strategic partner
• How to become an evaluator