{"id":7776,"date":"2023-04-12T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/events\/business-forum-a-day-around-startups-and-companies-related-to-the-african-continent-and-in-the-african-diaspora\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T08:58:30","slug":"business-forum-a-day-around-startups-and-companies-related-to-the-african-continent-and-in-the-african-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/events\/business-forum-a-day-around-startups-and-companies-related-to-the-african-continent-and-in-the-african-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Forum: A day all about startups and companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Various facets of successful African-German economic cooperation are discussed.<\/p>\n\n<p>First, experiences of medium-sized German companies active on the African continent will be presented. The Mittelstandindex Afrika provides companies with support in preparing their market entry in Africa.<\/p>\n\n<p>In another round, start-ups from the African continent will be presented, some of which are working with German partners.<em>cooperate internally. Exciting young startups from the African Diaspora in Germany and Black entrepreneurs.<\/em>inside exchange their experiences.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the third round of discussions, the role of universities as facilitators and supporters in this innovation process will be highlighted.<\/p>\n\n<p>10:00 &#8211; 11:30 a.m:  <br\/>IHK and Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences: Successful as a company on the African continent (German)<\/p>\n\n<p>Please register for this event here:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihk.de\/koeln\/hauptnavigation\/international\/laender-und-maerkte\/round-table-afrika-chancen-fuer-deutsche-unternehmen\/5792338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ihk.de\/koeln\/hauptnavigation\/international\/laender-und-maerkte\/round-table-afrika-chancen-fuer-deutsche-unternehmen\/5792338<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>11:45 a.m. &#8211; 1:15 p.m:<br\/>Proud e.V: Successful Black Start-up\/Company in Germany (german)<\/p>\n\n<p>1:45 &#8211; 3:15 p.m:  <\/p>\n\n<p>Insights into a successful collaboration of African-European startups and the support offered to international startups by universities. (English)<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/koeln.business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K\u00f6lnBusiness<\/a> will also be on site to advise people interested in founding a company and start-ups and to present support services.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase\">Organizer<\/h2>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gssc.uni-koeln.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global South Studies Center of<\/a> the University of Cologne in cooperation with<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihk.de\/koeln\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHK Cologne<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.h-brs.de\/de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proud-event.de\/de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proud e.V.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gateway-unikoeln.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gateway Excellence Start-Up Center<\/a> University of Cologne<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/koeln.business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K\u00f6lnBusiness Business Development GmbH<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The event is sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fritz Thyssen Foundation<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/gssc.uni-koeln.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global South Studies Center<\/a> (University of Cologne) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stadt-koeln.de\/artikel\/72503\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City of Cologne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various facets of successful African-German economic cooperation are discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","mec_category":[604,332],"programmbereich":[],"mec_tag":[396],"class_list":["post-7776","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-economy","mec_category-society-politics","mec_tag-ecas-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/7776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10149,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/7776\/revisions\/10149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"programmbereich","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programmbereich?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"mec_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/african-futures.koeln\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_tag?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}