This side event aims at bringing together in a very casual way water professionals and stakeholders in order to open discussions to find axes for collaboration. The objectives are to:
1-Offer African Center of Excellence working in the water field to showcase their expertise
2-In a B2B meeting style in a casual and concrete way spark discussions for potential partnerships
3-introduce african research of excellence in sustainable water resources to the world
This session is a B2B session to promote cooperation between Science through African Centers of Excellence and the Socio-economic sector represented by companies, NGOs private and public sector etc. Invited organisations will have the chance to meet and greet a high ranking executive of an African Center of Excellence to discuss potential partnerships that will be co-constructed to meet both the needs and objectives of both parties. Each ACE will meet a potential partner for 10 minute to explore ways to establish a collaboration.
ACE Partner Project
Gregory Giraud -ACE Partner project Manager
Ouedraogo Faissal Romaric-Coordinator of the NET-WATER
Harouna Karambiri-Leader of the African Center of Excellence (ACE) International Institute for Engineering in Water and Environment
Daouda Mama-Director of the African Center of Excellence in Water and Sanitation
Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Deputy director of the West African Center for Water Irrigation and Sustainable agriculture
Mamadou Cherif, Deputy Director of the African Center of Excellence on Climate Change, Biodiversity and sustainable agriculture
