Agence Française de Développement/ Cellule Innovation /Programme Intrapreunariat

Agence Française de Développement/ Cellule Innovation /Programme Intrapreunariat

Business description

  • AFD supports projects in vulnerable countries, middle-income countries, and the French overseas territories to fight poverty and inequality, and to preserve common goods.
    Within the Innovation Unit, we foster internal dynamics of innovation and intrapreneurship.

Application fields

  • Agriculture, Livestock
  • Agrifood
  • Digital and software tool
  • Digital uses and media
  • Environment: protection and surveillance, natural and climatic risks, depollution
  • Environment: water
  • Services

Group / Member of

  • Club de Paris des Directeurs de l'innovation
  • Challenge IA Biodiv
  • Association des artisans du Burkina Faso
  • Programme Intrapreunariat du groupe AFD

Objectives

Skills sought

1.Digital/ Electronics - Micro Nano Technologies
  • 1.10.Socio-economy of digital applications
  • Law and regulation
  • Languages and culture, ethics
6.Geosciences, natural resources, pollution and risks
  • 6.3.Marine environment
  • Benthic ecology
12.Agriculture
  • 12.1.Agriculture
  • Agricultural equipments
  • Oleo-protein crops

SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE NATURE OF THE NEEDS

1-Recherche de partenariats sur l’IA appliquée à la biodiversité marine (écologie benthique, capteurs, modélisation environnementale) afin de renforcer et valoriser les travaux du projet Challenge IA Biodiv financé par l'AFD.
2-Echanges avec AgriFood Transition et 3BCAR pour explorer des solutions d'exploitation /valorisation de l'arachide en Afrique de l'ouest, conciliant sécurité alimentaire, valeur locale et durabilité agroécologique grâce aux avancées récentes de la recherche et de l’IA

Sectors of activity

  •  R&D
  •  Advising and / or services
  • Public support for innovation
  • Financing Innovation

TRL scale

╰┈➤ TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL

↪ The TRL scale assesses the level of maturity of a technology up to its integration into a complete system and industrialization. Initially designed by Nasa and ESA for space projects, it has nine levels.

IDEA

0️⃣ IDEA・Concept unproven, no experiments conducted
1️⃣ BASIC RESEARCH・Needs are described, for now, without proof of feasibility
2️⃣ TECHNOLOGY FORMULATION・Concepts and applications are formulated and described
3️⃣ VALIDATION NEED・You have formulated a goal, stakeholders follow you

PROTOTYPE

4️⃣ PROTOTYPE REDUCED SCALE・Prototype "in lab"
5️⃣ PROTOTYPE REAL (QUASI) SIZE・Prototype in use environment

VALIDATION

6️⃣ PROTOTYPING OF SYSTEM・Testing in real environment, performance close to target
7️⃣ DEMONSTRATEUR・Functioning in real environment, pre-commercial stage

MANUFACTURE

8️⃣ COMPLETE AND QUALIFIED SYSTEM・Qualified and tested technical and commercial processes
9️⃣ COMMERCIALIZED SYSTEM・Technology available to customers