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EU H2020 Funded Project UFO continue with their Ideation Sessions following the success of their first webinar on the 19th November to launch the project. Coming up in December, UFO will present four event sessions to SMEs interested in the following six emerging industries: Climate and Environment, Mobility, Blue Growth, and a final joint session covering Finance and Insurance, and Digital Creative and Gaming.

We hear a lot about Official Development Assistance (ODA), but what is it? And what role does, and can, AgriFood play in development and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This article looks at ODA and its interactions with AgriFood innovation, drawing on content from one of our Virtual mission sessions.

A webinar took place on finance and insurance on 14 July 2020 as part of Week 4 of the Africa-UK AgriFood Innovation Mission 2020. We dived into some of the challenges facing AgriFood and smallholder financing.

Gender equality has become an important criteria in most funding and grant competitions, so we asked some expert speakers to share their insight on the topic as part of our GCRF AgriFood Africa Virtual Missions.

The KTN Global Alliance Africa team would like to thank all Speakers, Partners, Panelists, Organisers and Participants in supporting our first event series called ‘Global Ideas Exchange: Enhancing Innovative Resilience in Africa’. The aim of each session was to encourage sharing and learning to showcase the latest ideas and best practice in innovation. Here is a round up of this exciting new event series which took place in October 2020.

GE Renewable Energy and ORE Catapult announce Tethys and Aerones as winners of KTN Innovation Exchange competition.

KTN are offering up to 175 fully-funded places for SMEs to get 4Manufacturing® support in 2021 (start dates Feb – Apr) but you’ll need to be quick! Sign up now and complete our survey by the 11th December 2020.

Welsh Government and KTN are partnered in this workshop by the newly formed Digital DRS Industry Working Group, which is an informal grouping of sectoral interests working to ensure better understanding of the potential function of digital DRS in the emerging system development.

Pedro Carvalho from the KTN’s AgriFood team looks at new funding available to help improve management practices in AgriFood businesses.