MAPUTO - On August 12, 2020, the Carlos Morgado Foundation signed an agreement with ideiaLab for participation in the ClimateLaunchPad Mozambique 2020.
ClimateLaunchpad is the largest Global Green Business Ideas Competition created in 2014 with the aim of reducing the negative impacts of climate change through innovation and entrepreneurship. This is an initiative of EIT Climate-KIC, the European Union's innovation program for climate change and implemented in Mozambique by ideaLab. In the 2020 edition, more than 3000 ideas from more than 57 countries compete, with 13 national green business ideas in the national final, who throughout the program had access to an intensive 3-day training program and 4 business advisory sessions in digital format .
The Carlos Morgado Foundation's responsibilities are as follows:
1. Appointment of a representative of the organization to participate as a jury in the national final;
2. Creation of the institutional online presence for each of the top 3 startups.
The Foundation will also have the privilege of announcing in the national final the three startups that will represent Mozambique in the international phase of the competition.
For more information:Ruben Ferreira Morgado - Carlos Morgado Foundation
+258843063320 - rmorgado@carlosmorgado.org
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Who we are?Carlos Morgado Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on the memory, dialogue and dissemination of Carlos Morgado's legacy. It was founded by his family in 2010. The principles that guided Carlos Morgado's life, namely honesty, honor, devotion to noble causes, love of neighbor and the crazy desire to see Mozambique prosper, are the foundations of the existence of Foundation.
IDEIALAB is a Mozambican company, founded in 2010, with the purpose of inspiring entrepreneurs, supporting the development of start-ups, accelerating the growth of Micro, Small and Medium-sized companies and promoting entrepreneurship and innovation.