The digital curtain is falling, but the spotlights are not turning off today to Coopen Summit | Voices of African Innovation 2023, the international event dedicated to the Coopen initiative, that is part of the Innovation for Development program promoted by Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Compagnia San Paolo, and is managed by Cariplo Factory, with the contribution of JengaLab, Centro Tiresia of the Politecnico di Milano and Effecinque.
Coopen is a participatory process of open innovation to implement impact solutions between Italy and Africa, facilitating partnerships between Civil Society Organisations and innovators between Italy and Africa. In recent years the initiatives implemented within Coopen have worked to respond to urgent needs in the fields of sustainable agriculture, health and well-being and circular economy. The projects have landed among the communities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Uganda.
In the framework of the Coopen Summit | Voices of African Innovation 2023, celebrated on 18 April 2023, 7 Civil Society Organizations and 7 Innovators pitched their projects dedicated to #Health and #Well-being, in response to the challenge areas of the Call for Innovators Health and Well-being :
- Promotion of training of qualified medical and health personnel
- Maintenance of medical equipment
- Construction of sanitary environments and infrastructures
- Collection and organization of clinical data
- Prevention in local communities and vulnerable groups