The program of acceleration of the impulses will be held in Accra

Economic News from Sunday, August 4, 2019

Source: World Media Alliance

2019-08-04

Impulse, one of the best start-up acceleration programs, with the support of OCP Group and OCP Africa, will organize in Accra an information session for young people. Ghanaian startups from the Agritech Group, on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, at the Kempinski Hotel, at 18 hours.

Impulse is a 12-week acceleration program aimed at young innovative companies with a prototype or marketable product in the fields of Agritech, agricultural biotechnology, technology mining or materials science and nanotechnology. The program will help accelerate the start-up of young companies developing solutions for the small African farmer.

The Impulse program is also open to entrepreneurs and innovation experts from around the world as a mentor, jury or guest speaker.

The program was conceived by the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Morocco, in partnership with Mbad Challenge, as part of its Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiative, which aims to promote and support a global community of researchers and researchers. Visionary entrepreneurs committed to the development of the African continent.

A global call to Impulse apps was launched June 26 in Casablanca and a group of Ghanaian startups meeting the criteria will be eligible to be selected and invited to Morocco to launch the UM6P Campus Acceleration Program. in Benguerir.

The information session is an opportunity for Impulse program organizers to meet with representatives of Ghana's entrepreneurial ecosystem and to find innovative companies in Ghana in the areas of Agtech, Biotech, Mining Tech and Materials Science & Nanotech.

In coordination with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (OCM), OCP Africa intends to support OCP's ambitious innovation program to contribute to the development of sustainable and prosperous agriculture in Ghana and Africa. Africa.

In addition to the Impulse program, OCP Africa has recently relaunched on a larger scale its innovative Agribooster and School Lab initiatives to help small farmers in Ghana increase their yields and incomes.

The Impulse program also reinforces OCP Africa's strong commitment to agricultural development in Africa.