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That moment when you get off the airplane and you breathe in the Rwandan air – always a bit humid, never too cold and somehow a bit smoky – the feeling of home returns almost immediately – Rwanda, here I come!
It has already been two weeks since I arrived and a lot has been going on for me in my new role as the Project lead of StArfrica in Rwanda since…
I hope that in four years we will have achieved the indicators we have set. But I really do see it as a pilot project and would therefore like to see it extended to other African countries and that it somehow manages to create a cluster in Rwanda, on the one hand with this bridge character and the connection to Germany, on the other hand with the local economy…
I was involved from the beginning when we at ZIFET decided to develop activities in Rwanda. We chose Africa, an exciting and promising continent with great potential. There were already contacts to Rwanda through previous activities together with the Rwanda Center, so the choice of Rwanda as a partner country in the application was obvious. Establishing “Business Start-Up from Science” at the University of Rwanda is a very exciting and challenging project for me, which I am happy to accompany with my experience…
On October 5, an interview with Harald von Korflesch was published on the blog of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economics, drawing attention to the “StAfrica – Startup Germany-Africa” project. We hope to get in contact with other entrepreneurs interested in founding a company in Rwanda or to inspire some of them for the African country. The article is called “Rwanda and Rhineland-Palatinate: a new level of cooperation” and can be read under the following link (interview in German and English)…
