SITA South Africa Open Innovation Challenge Information Session and Q&A
Join us to find out more about the SITA South Africa Open Innovation Challenge.
Recording and slides now available
Overview
The goal of Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa’s Open Innovation intervention is to help African companies find innovative solutions to technical problems that their traditional supply chains cannot solve. We do this by promoting cross-sectoral innovation transfer from organisations beyond their usual supply chains. Using our bespoke platform, we run Open Innovation Challenges to match real industry problems for large businesses with innovative companies or academic institutions who can provide novel, market ready solutions to those problems.
About the Event
This event will provide further information about the challenge, and a Q&A session to participants. We are inviting potential solution providers to this webinar as an opportunity to learn more about the challenge area.
About the Challenge
SITA is looking to optimise aircraft turnaround times at regional African airports to reduce emissions. There are many systems available for larger airports, but these are not economically or technologically suitable for smaller airports with less advanced infrastructure, which must also deal with signal and power issues. Their goal is to reduce CO2 emissions and wasted resources (primarily caused by additional use of aircraft APUs: Auxiliary Power Units) by 20% by enhancing efficiency and streamlining turnaround logistics. Innovative solutions should have real-time functionality, measurement ability and be capable of dealing with the reduced amount of data collected by smaller airports. The solutions will initially be trialled in South Africa and should be scalable regionally.
Related programmes
Open Innovation
Open Innovation is the belief that good ideas can come from anywhere, so it is worth looking widely, beyond your usual supply chains. Innovate UK has well-established methods for supporting Open Innovation, having run 200+ innovation challenges across the world. Our model allows diverse collaborators to respond to shared industry challenges in a mutually beneficial way.
Global Alliance Africa
This Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa 6-year (2019-2025) project funded by UK International Development aims to build new and stronger UK-African partnerships to maximise the creation of inclusive market access, funding and investment opportunities through innovation knowledge transfer between the UK, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.