Fact-Finding Mission to PAUWES, Algeria

In May 2016, a team of iceHubs experts from icebauhaus, icecairo and icealex visited the Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (PAUWES) in Tlemcen, Algeria, on a fact-finding mission to establish the conditions for the setup of a Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub, commissioned by UN-University Bonn. The mission to Algeria culminated in a one-day interactive workshop with students and staff, titled “CO-CREATING AN INNOVATION HUB FOR PAUWES”, which served as a first starting-point for continued discussion and planning of the future hub. The iceHubs team was very pleased with their impression of the new institution, in particular impressed by the energy and motivation of its students from all over Africa, and was able to offer concrete advice to the PAUWES management and implementing partners on how to collaborate with the iceHubs network to establish their own tech hub & prototyping lab.