The AU-EU Innovation Agenda: First year assessment of the 10-year Agenda
Data de publicação: 16 Abril 2025 | Língua do relatório: EN
This Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Report provides the first-year assessment of the implementation of the African Union (AU) – European Union (EU) Innovation Agenda (2023-2033). Officially adopted in July 2023 further to the mandate given at the first AU-EU Ministerial on Science, Technology and Innovation, this Agenda aims to foster the translation of Research and Innovation (R&I) into tangible impact, namely products, services, business and jobs, in Africa and Europe. Its implementation is supported by a continuously increasing number of initiatives and projects of Africa-Europe R&I cooperation that are listed on a Dashboard, hosted on the AU-EU Innovation Interface.
This report provides a snapshot of the ongoing implementation of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda by the end of the first full year of its implementation (end-July 2024). To do so, this report gathered and compared, whenever possible, information on AU-EU R&I collaborations and their outputs right before (August 2022-July 2023 defined as “Year 0”) and after the adoption of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda (August 2023-July 2024 defined as “Year 1”). Hence, this report establishes a baseline and captures emerging trends, setting the foundation for the continued MEL work that will accompany the implementation of the Agenda over its implementation period (2023-2033).
