Ahead of the EU-African Union Summit and Business Forum to be hold from 15-18 February 2022, the EIF is hosting a debate on how to improve the partnership between these two regions when it comes to education, digital learning and skills.

The discussion will address questions of digital transformation, digital inclusion and best practices: How to bridge the digital divide, including in its gender component? How can we support youth employability? How can we support technological entrepreneurship? How to provide access to digital and entrepreneurial skills? The event will be an opportunity to present a few ongoing projects in this regard and discuss together concrete means to move the cooperation forward.

• Programme

  Opening remarks

  Maria da Graça Carvalho MEP and EIF Steering Committee Member

  Speakers

  joint-presentation Asma Ennaifer, Director of CSR, Communication and Orange Digital Center, Orange Africa and Middle East & Toni Kaatz-Dubberke, Project Lead Strategic Alliance Orange Digital Center, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

  Siobhan Lynch, Program Director, iMlango

  Kiarie Kamau, Managing Director & CEO, East African Educational Publishers Limited

  Kirsten Van Camp, Policy Officer Digital Education, DG INTPA, European Commission

  Moderator

  Maria Rosa Gibellini, Director General, European Internet Forum

  Exchange of views with the participants under the Chatham House rule