AESMEFS NOMINATION
The Africa– Europe Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Foresight Summitwith the theme“Addressing the needs of SMEs to support a sustainable recovery from covid-19 in accelerating agenda 2063 and 2030 implementation”– seeks to address directly the issues of
- Policies and R&D programmes that deal with innovation, industrial growth and competitiveness which can be addressed through multi-country collaboration and joint exercise.
- Importance of Technology Foresight for improving the competitiveness of industry by exploiting emerging and future trends in science and technology
- Methodologies and tools for Technology Foresight for SMEs
- Policies and strategies that focus on innovation
- Generating comparable data for possible aggregation
- Solutions to relevant problems that can be addressed through the appropriate application of technology
EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Also through its Dinner and Excellence awards session, it shall provide a platform for recognizing and awarding excellence in Individuals and organizations that have played significant roles in the development of the SMEs sector in Africa. In all 17 excellence awards categories for noteworthy efforts in SMEs development in Africa will be awarded with each Award having a specific theme and consisting of a Trophy and a Citation along with a Certificate. They shall fall in the following category:
- Lifetime Achievement
- Entrepreneurship Excellence
- Best Women led SMEs
- Most influential Young Entrepreneur
- Most Creativity and Innovative Project
- Green Entrepreneurship
- Most Tech Savvy
- Woman SMEs Achiever
- Best SMEs Exporter
- Most Innovative
- Entrepreneur
- Best Employment Generating SMEs
- Best SMEs Investment Facilitator
- Best Diaspora Investment Contribution to the Development of SMEs in Africa
- Best Diaspora and SMEs in Africa Collaboration
- Small Business Governance
- Exhibitors Choice Award
- Technology Business of the Year
- Rising Star of the Year
- Sustainability Business of the Year
- Business Leader of the Year
- Customer Focus of the Year
- Excellence in Training Award
- Best Digital Marketing Training Company
- Edupreneur of the Year
- Most Innovative Software Services and Solutions Company
- “Startup of the Year”
- HealthTech Business of the Year
- International Icon of the year in Healthcare Excellence
- Healthcare Startup of the Year
- Technology Business of the Year
- Micro Business of the Year
- Best Entrepreneurship Training Company
- Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year
- Environmental Product of the Year
- Women entrepreneur of the year in Professional Education
- Product Innovator of the Year