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Grand Challenges Botswana – a new programme to fund impressive innovations Feb 25, 2021
The Botswana Innovation Hub today announced a new funding programme, Grand Challenges Botswana, to support bold and impressive innovations to accelerate progress towards achieving Botswana’s national development priorities and economic transformation.
The Botswana Innovation Hub partners with the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) – an initiative of the African Academy of Sciences, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and Global partners – to launch the Grand Challenges Botswana as a unique but collaborative initiative under the Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa) initiative.
GC Africa is an AESA programme that awards seed and full grants to the continent’s most impressive innovators to promote Africa-led scientific innovations that help countries better achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
2021-02-25 15:30:28 GMT2021-02-25 23:30:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
GABORONE, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) has launched a new funding program dubbed Grand Challenges Botswana, to support innovations that can accelerate progress towards achieving national development priorities and economic transformation. Launching Grand Challenges Botswana today, gives me renewed hope that we are on course towards achieving our national Vision 2036 aspirations. We are looking at a five-year implementation plan in which we target supporting key projects that will scale commercially, locally and regionally, building a portfolio with potential to create jobs, said Douglas Letsholathebe, minister of tertiary education, research, science and technology on Wednesday.