Fraunhofer in Africa

The institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft cooperate with partners in African countries in a variety of research areas. In addition to its contract research for companies, Fraunhofer is active in scientific collaboration and interested in establishing long-term cooperations with research institutions in Africa.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with the following contact persons at Fraunhofer headquarters with inquiries concerning research cooperation in Africa. We will make sure to connect you with the most suitable colleagues at our Fraunhofer institutes!
 

Africa (except South Africa): Petra Beer

South Africa: Jens Neugebauer

Fraunhofer activities in Africa – examples

INSPIRED – Agri-PV

International Cooperation and Support through Development of Agrivoltaics

2022 – 2026
Namibia
 

Sustainable use of agri-photovoltaics

LEAP-RE: OASES

Development and demonstration of a sustainable open access AU-EU ecosystem for energy system modelling

2022 – 2025
Egypt, Algeria, South Africa
 

OASES

 

LEAP-RE: Geothermal Village

2022 – 2025
Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti

Africa: Developing renewable energy partnerships

LEAP-RE: Geothermal Atlas for Africa

2022 – 2025
Africa
 

Developing partnerships for renewable energies

SERPIC

Sustainable Electrochemical Reduction of contaminants of emerging concern and Pathogens in WWTP effluent for Irrigation of Crops

2021 – 2024
South Africa
 

Water-purification technology

PreCare

Health care for everyone and everywhere

2022 – 2024
South Africa
 

PreCare

SolLabTUN

Solution Labs Tunisia

2021 – 2024
Tunisia
 

Solution Labs Tunesien (SolLabTUN)