Volunteer Spotlight: Elli Safari
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Head of Budgeting at Ambitious.Global - Elli Safari.
Volunteer Spotlight: Prince Fully
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Team Lead at Ambitious.Liberia - Prince Fully, a young, ambitious, driven and talented geologist from Liberia.
Sustainable Lean Six Sigma Course in Kigali, Rwanda
Two months ago, I travelled to the heart of Africa to teach the first Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Green Belt course at the University of Kigali (Rwanda) as part of our Complex Problem-Solving Project, run in conjunction with Ambitious.Africa and ESTIEM.
Volunteer Spotlight: Kristian Jakobsson
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Grants Manager - Kristian Jakobsson, a young, self-motivated and hardworking university student from Finland.
Volunteer Spotlight: Eustacia Morris
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our former Head of Community and HR - Miss. Eustacia Morris, a young, brilliant and ambitious changemaker from South Africa (originally from Zimbabwe).
Meet Eden Tadesse, Our Chief Executive Officer from Ethiopia
Born and raised in Ethiopia, Eden is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, digital innovator and human rights activist. As a proud non-conformist and global citizen, she is passionate about leveraging innovation, diversity and leadership to create sustainable solutions. Her professional experience spans across social innovation, activism, economic development, entrepreneurship and education ventures in Africa, India and the Nordics.
The Ambitious Africa Online Platform
By Alexander Gröning We are creating a Ambitious.Africa Online Platform where the community can gather in one place to work and collaborate towards our goals. As a community, we can share our experiences, support and guide each other. The online platform provides a unique opportunity to network between countries, areas of interest and partners. By having everything centralized we can work in unison and reach new heights.
Kenyan-Finnish education partnership sees 51 Kenyan students join the Tampere University of Applied Sciences
By Cate Mukei - An education partnership between the Kenyan county of Uasin Gishu and Finland has seen 51 Kenyan students join the Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK).
SavingOurselves: The podcast that looks into climate change through the lens of Nordic businesses
The ubiquity of climate change nowadays is only matched by its utmost gravity. While this issue concerns every single one of us, industry leaders have more responsibility for engaging in finding solutions for this scourge. It is exactly this group of people that Maija Luukka and Jennifer Ohemeng converse with in their 10 episodes podcast.
By Jasmin Nyqvist
Valid8: Meet the great minds behind the innovative pre-accelerator
Valid8 pre-accelerator comes to break the barriers of turning your ideas into reality. This is the second blog post about the Valid8 pre-accelerator launched by Ambitious.Africa, the Great Zambezi Initiative, and TampereES. In this blog, we will present to you our team and the motivation behind this innovative pre-accelerator that not only connects Zambezi startups but also brings a bridge with the Finnish ecosystem.
Rwanda Genocide: A Closer Look at How the Nordics Participated in Bringing Closure to the Land of a Thousand Hills
If you are reading about the Rwandan Genocide for the first time, this conflict was considered the result of a civil war between the Hutus and the Tutsis. It all started when Rwanda’s President, Juvénal Habyarimana, was killed when his plane was shot down. Hutu extremists then gained control of the government and started a genocide that would brutally murder up to 800,000 people between April 7 and July 15, 1994.
Ambitious.Africa x Home Street Home x LUTES: Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Makongeni, Kenya
Ambitious.Africa, Home Street Home, and LUTES have joined forces to build an entrepreneurship bootcamp that encourages entrepreneurial mindset, provides hard skills, and inspires creative problem-solving for the Home Street Home community. We use the train-the-trainer concept for maximizing the impact and making it sustainable. The first edition of the three-day bootcamp with 25 participants will take place in May 2021 in Makongeni, Kenya.
Finnish-Namibian Joint Tech Campus Promotes Cross-cultural ICT Learning Between Africa and the Nordics
The University of Turku overseas campus in Namibia provides courses in programming and educational robotics. On campus, students and teachers develop human-centred technologies together, using unique cultural lenses when identifying and solving problems.