Projects
Innovation Competition for Decentralised Energy Solutions for Rural Communities in Ethiopia
our role:
- Design and Implementation of the Innovation Challenge.
- Developed and launched nationwide call, put in place a selection jury of experts, co-designed selection criteria and facilitated selection process, developed prize options for finalists and winners, integrated a young journalist programme to enhance visibility and publicity
- Developed the business skills capacity development aspects for the competition winners and finalists. The modules included
- business presentation skills and preparing a pitch deck.
- business development (e.g., developing your USP, identifying your niche, understanding the customer, building a team, financial management and pricing, marketing, and building networks).
- Identifying and working collaboratively with strategic accelerators, incubators and start-up networks that can support the winning innovations.
Technical assessment of Green Climate Fund sectoral guides
our role:
- Technical review of the GCF guies.
- Rapid analysis on text coherence, content, document structure, language, and comprehension.
Start Up Energy Transition (SET) Award - Next Level
Our role
- Developing a guide for the GIZ CoP on Energy and Transport on best practices when working with Start-Ups.
eSEEKER Technical and Vocational Training and Research Centre
Our role was establishing the center
A renewable energy training centre focused on equipping young people with employable skills and increase knowledge on renewable energy technology in Uganda.
Restaurant Polku - Global cuisine, local possibilities
Restaurant Polku operated with a whole new concept. Besides offering a fusion of “home cooking” cuisine from both Finland and other countries like Gambia and Vietnam, Polku also offered a path for new Finns for employment. Besides working they also grew their vocational and language expertize.
Our role:
- We connected new and old Finns
- 2018 opened restaurant later expanded to different services with similar concept
