Berger Paints Nigeria Open Innovation Challenge Information Session and Q&A

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Welcome & Introduction
Introduction to Global Alliance Africa and Open Innovation
Introduction to Berger Paints Nigeria
Berger Paints Nigeria – Innovation Challenge for Valorisation of Expired Paints
Application Information

Overview

The goal of 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 Innovation Exchange 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 Challenge

Global Alliance Africa and Berger Paints Nigeria are looking for innovative solutions to convert aged paints, and paint fractions and components into usable paints and other beneficial products. The innovation should have wide applicability and scalability to help transform this worldwide waste stream into commercially valuable outputs. Solutions are invited from, but not limited to, the following sectors: Chemistry, Coatings, Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Plastics, Recycling, Design, Construction.

Up to GBP 25,000 seed funding (Subject to T&C) is available for this challenge and Africa-based entrants, UK-based entrants and those from RoW are invited to apply. The winner of these innovation challenges will pitch to Berger Paints Nigeria and will be invited to collaborate with them on a trial project.

About the event

This event will mark the formal launch of the Challenge and provide 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.

Agenda

• Welcome & Housekeeping

  12pm GMT/1pm WAT
• Introduction to Global Alliance Africa & Open Innovation

  12:10pm GMT/1:10pm WAT
• Introduction to Berger Paints Nigeria

  12:20pm GMT/1:20pm WAT
• Berger Paints Nigeria Open Innovation Challenge

  12:30pm GMT/1:30pm WAT
• Q&A

  1pm GMT/2pm WAT
• Next Steps

  1:20pm GMT/2:20pm WAT
• Close

  1:30pm GMT/2:30pm WAT