AGEA

The African German Entrepreneurship Academy (AGEA) is an initiative developed by the International SEPT Program of Leipzig University in cooperation with its partners in Africa and Germany.

The aim is to promote entrepreneurship education and business incubator establishment in Africa as well as to establish practice oriented cooperation with start-ups and businesses. The AGEA in addition supports African oriented start-ups in Germany and provides necessary support needed by businesses which want to do business in Africa.

AGEA has been established to empower Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in entrepreneurship promotion activities and business incubator establishment in Africa. It is also a platform to encourage sharing of knowledge among African HEIs and the private sector. This kind of knowledge sharing is done in collaboration with German universities and business associations (South – South knowledge transfer and North-South cooperation).

How we do it

In entrepreneurship promotion AGEA follows the approach to accompany founders through the process from rough ideas through idea clarification, product and business model development to business plan writing and the actual creation of a company. Once the company is founded AGEA wishes to maintain the network in order to conduct joint activities or to create synergies with other actors in the network.
Workshops and summer schools are organised in collaboration with our partner institutions in Africa those activities can either advance existing start up projects or facilitate new projects