The signal travels across three continents.
From ideation to acceleration, across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Hover a country or a corridor to pick it out on the map.
19 pays sur 3 continents. Les corridors du Global Gateway sont les axes que l'Union européenne finance en priorité ; Ovation opère déjà sur plusieurs d'entre eux. Survolez un pays ou un corridor pour l'isoler.
// Ovation works on 8 of the 12 strategic EU-Africa corridors defined by the European Commission (Global Gateway)
The infrastructure is being built.
The potential often stays locked.
A mine invests in extraction but imports its maintenance; a port modernises but its suppliers stay informal; an agri-business looks for certified suppliers and finds none. The corridor exists; the ecosystem that would let local players plug into it does not, yet. That is where Ovation works.
- De-risk — lowering the cost and the risk of innovation, for local players and for companies expanding internationally.
- Connect — wiring the demand of large buyers to the supply of the local fabric, through the middleground.
- Activate — bringing forward reliable, structured suppliers who meet international standards.
What actually happened,
out in the field.
// 30 tracks · 26 detailed case studies — the lines marked with a signal open up
We Act — Rawbank
A multi-year partnership with Rawbank to structure impact entrepreneurship nationwide: provincial incubation, SME acceleration and a large-scale rollout of the Ovation Academy.
02 2025Innovation Days — Silikin Village
A week of immersion in Kinshasa: Business Day, co-creation Lab (a working MVP in 4 days) and a public Open Day. 50+ companies, 30+ experts, 1,000+ visitors.
03 2024 → 2025M-Impact+ — Kasaï Oriental
Acceleration and incubation of 83 entrepreneurs in Mbuji-Mayi and certification of 14 local coaches, to lastingly professionalise the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Kasaï Oriental.
Studio 267 — EcoSoc
An entrepreneurship programme run with Enabel across Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Kolwezi — ongoing through to mid-2026.
Reines en Scène
Incubation of 28 women cultural entrepreneurs in Kinshasa, Kisangani, Lubumbashi and Mbuji-Mayi: hybrid bootcamp, Ovation Academy, strategic coaching — and 12 bankable applications prepared.
06 2024SOPA+ — ecosystem analysis
Strategic redesign of the SOPA+ programme in Haut-Katanga and Lualaba: a public-private entrepreneurial ecosystem model designed for 1,300 young people and 200 social enterprises.
07 2023 → 2024K-Impact
Incubation and acceleration of young sustainable businesses in Kinshasa, with a focus on women and young people: 110 entrepreneurs supported and two Demo Days.
Kin Emploi — Edumosu
Support for youth employment and entrepreneurship in Kinshasa, with Enabel — one of Ovation's first projects on Congolese ground.
Support to the Innovation Centre — Burkina Faso
Diagnosing Burkina Faso's entrepreneurial ecosystem and giving the Innovation Centre a medium- and long-term strategy — viability, governance, finances, partnerships — so it can stand on its own.
10 2025 → 2027FRIT — Fragility, Innovation, Territory
Building territorial resilience along the Conakry – Kindia – Mamou axis: helping local innovations mature and bringing new solutions forward through ideation and prototyping, with a focus on young people and women.
11 2024 → 2026B-Creative — cultural industries
Structuring Benin's cultural and creative industries: 16 certified coaches, 47 entrepreneurs in pre-incubation, 16 cultural businesses incubated through to Demo Day.
12 2024 → 2025Guinea Resilience — fundraising
Financial support for 102 Guinean SMEs around the Kindia Hub, 27 of them prepared for fundraising: business plans, financial structuring, pitch and go-to-market strategy.
13 2024 → 2026RESAE — structuring Guinea's support organisations
Lasting structuring of Guinea's entrepreneurship support organisations, in consortium with Fanaka & Co: shared diagnostic, tailored capacity plans, around a hundred professionalised coaches and a national network dynamic.
14 2022 → 2023Digiboost — Beninese support organisations
Strengthening 36 organisations supporting innovative entrepreneurship: diagnostic, mapping, intensive modules and one-to-one support for each organisation on its own incubation offer.
15 2022Tech4Girls
A short, intensive programme in women's entrepreneurship: 15 young women entrepreneurs trained in customer analysis, MVP and pitch — plus 5 champions trained to carry the practices forward.
Green & circular economy — Burundi
Backing innovative solutions in the green and circular economy: 60 young talents (50% women) embedded in companies, a co-creation hackathon and 30 projects incubated through to Demo Day.
17 2025Green value chains — Burundi
Analysis of green and circular economy value chains — sustainable construction, renewable energy, green crafts, waste management — to identify the sectors that create decent jobs for young people and women.
ESO Strengthening
Strengthening entrepreneurship support organisations (ESOs) in Kampala, with Enabel — ongoing through to 2027.
Kigoma Incubation Residency
A four-week incubation residency for 25 green economy entrepreneurs in Kigoma: masterclasses in Swahili, Lean Startup method, and 6 local coaches trained by co-facilitation at the SIDO centre.
20 2024Femmes Debout — women's incubator
Support to set up an incubator dedicated to women's entrepreneurship: training a pool of 7 local coaches and supporting entrepreneurs in co-facilitation.
Access to finance — OIF
A hybrid capacity-building programme for 33 French-speaking entrepreneurs in Europe: demystifying funding mechanisms, sharpening pitches and opening a structured dialogue with investors.
22 2026Circular Finance Mapping — EU CERC
Mapping the circular economy finance landscape across EU partner countries, with a focus on Africa: over 100 funders catalogued, 23 qualitative interviews, a 120-page analysis.
23 2026Strategic facilitation — Dreamwall
Turning an inventory of idea clusters into a de-risked innovation portfolio: an ideation workshop, monthly testing and a new value proposition within six months.
24 2026Hacking Health Liège
A medical innovation cycle designed to break hospital silos: two workshops at the university hospital and a 12-hour hackathon at La Grand Poste — 150 participants, 15 multidisciplinary teams.
25 2025In-house incubation — SWDE
Group support for projects in a cross-sector incubator inside SWDE: surfacing and structuring intrapreneurship, from diagnostic to field validation.
Strategic seminar — Noshaq
48 hours of strategic seminar with the decision-makers of the Liège investment fund: an opening pitch that set the room alight, and a five-year operational plan now being rolled out.
Innovation IS — water sector diagnostic
Gathering the water sector's real problems through interviews and focus groups, to define innovation themes that can actually be acted on.
28 2023Ideation support — SWDE
Selecting and accelerating internal projects through the « Nos idées ont de la valeur » platform: an intensive Lean Startup & Design Sprint bootcamp and a pitch day — 66 ideas submitted, 4 winners in incubation.
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