EU: Africa The Journey

African-European online hackathon program to find innovative solutions to socio-economic problems in Africa and Europe! More information about the 2021 edition coming shortly!
In the meantime:

Join us for the Startup Community Building Workshop in East-Africa, 19/08-20/08/21, Nairobi, Kenya

Join us for the #euafricathejourney 2021 pre-events- design hackathons in Kenya, Nairobi, September 2021

#euafricathejourney

Reasons to participate

10 000 participants / 300 mentors / 11 spokespeople / 500+ tech communities across Africa and Europe / 100 000€ Prize Fund

"We need to adapt to the new normal and thrive. This can only happen if we encourage innovation and “out-of-the-box” thinking."

Lacina Koné
Director-General, Smart Africa Secretariat

"Estonia has proved that digital can be a great equaliser and Africa has every potential to leapfrog in digital development. This hackathon could lay grounds for the first joint European-African unicorn."

Kersti Kaljulaid
President of Estonia

"Youth shall put their creativity, innovation and ingenuity using digital skills into providing solutions that help Africa recover better and faster."

Amani Abou Zeid
Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy at the African Union Commission

"Through this hackathon we will be able to foster the creativity and the ingenuity of our young people and professionals from Africa and the EU, who will all be working towards the same goal in a competitive spirit: elaborating scalable solutions to today’s challenges."

Franz Fayot
Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs

"It’s about time we move on and start thinking of post-pandemic times and what we can do together. It’s important to start now. The future is ours to shape!"

Peter Vesterbacka
Founder of Rovio, Angry Birds, FinEst Bay Area

"Join with other like-minded people, to create the next-level big things and be part of the solution!"

Martin Koppel
CEO & Co-Founder, Fortumo

"What does the world need right now, during endless days of difficult news? We need to catch people doing the RIGHT thing!"

Blair Glencorse
Founder and Executive Director, Accountability Lab

Timeline

Registration opens

20
October

Team formation #1

28
November

Team formation #2

5
December

Teams announced

7
December

Online Hackathon

10-13
December

TOP 20 teams continue in the acceleration
program

February -April 2021

Challenges

We are together because of these organizers