Incubator
ESAA - incubator
ESAA’s incubator is an innovation hub which aims to promote Algeria’s entrepreneurial culture, through the incubation of business projects and the animation of a community around the theme of open innovation with a view to promoting Algerian skills to resolve the problems encountered by companies.
Its main mission is to develop the entrepreneurial capacities of ESAA students, learners and all project leaders wanting to develop their business ideas.
It places at the heart of its support system the services, resources and measures necessary to help entrepreneurs develop innovative and sustainable solutions from the idea phase to the commercial development phase.
To serve change-makers to develop a more diverse, inclusive, and sustainable economy!
Support
| Axes | Objectives |
|---|---|
| Programs | Offering a training course aimed at acquiring soft skills, hard skills, as well as skill enhancement for supported project holders. |
| Expertise & master-class | Providing access to project holders to technical skills on key topics necessary for proper project development (taxation, accounting, social law, marketing, etc.) |
| Mentoring | Offering individual support by a mentor (experienced entrepreneur, company executive) to assist the project holder in daily decisions, provide reassurance, share contacts, and best practices. |
| Events and Networking | Organizing meetings, testimonials, and conferences to strengthen the project holders’ networks. |
| Collective Intelligence | Organizing collective intelligence sessions to foster innovations and find solutions. |
| Individual Follow-up | Offering the project holder tailored individual follow-up from an ESAA incubator mentor. These sessions help review and adapt concepts seen in training, ensure continuous engagement, identify needs throughout the journey, and connect with the right mentor |
Presentation of Incubator Projects
1- ESAA – Eco-Innovation Challenge
A project developed by the ESAA Incubator to encourage innovation and green technology transfer in Algerian companies in close collaboration with various stakeholders of the Algerian ecosystem.
The challenge consists of identifying and developing innovative, sustainable technological solutions in different sectors to address environmental challenges related to sustainable development goals.
Some figures of the EIC:
120 applications received
54 hours of competition
03 days of training
05 winners selected
A 4-month incubation program
234 hours of training, personalized support, and mentoring, with networking meetings for the winners.
2- Information and Awareness Day: Media at the disposition of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
The information day consists of a series of conferences and workshops aimed at training journalists on the main principles of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Algeria. The day was animated by experts from the national commission for the Coordination and Monitoring of Innovation and University Incubators. Topics included:
Conferences:
- Entrepreneurship in academia;
- The basic principles of entrepreneurship in Algeria;
- The entrepreneurial ecosystem in Algeria;
Workshops:
- Creative thinking;
- Business Economic Model.
