EWiEn has launched the first women youth, energy-based incubator program in Ethiopia (EWiEn incubator). The program is designed to address the energy access gap by making women change agents, through promoting innovation and women’s inclusiveness.
The EWiEn incubator is a project that aims to bring social, economic, and environmental impacts across the entire value chain of the renewable energy business, starting from generation to consumption of energy. Women entrepreneurs will be trained in critical industry skills to create innovations that are affordable, accessible, and user-friendly for households or commercial use.
The EWiEn incubator encourages women to develop start-up ideas related to; products, processes, technology, financial mechanisms, data services, and other aspects that can support and transform renewable energy accessibility specially solar energy in Ethiopia. The program will assist innovators by incubating their ideas through mentorship, technical, business, and skill development training, prototyping development, and networking to get their ideas off the ground and push it to the next level. This project is expected to generate ideas that will transform Ethiopia’s energy sector through the participation of young women.
Eligibility
- Idea: Business ideas should address a problem within the renewable energy sector, specifically solar energy solutions.
- Team: The founder/co-founder of the business must be female
- Commitment: Must be willing to commit 6 hours per month to the incubation program
- Target: The business needs to bring an innovative idea that is targeted towards the community.
- Scalable: The business idea needs to have the potential to be scalable.
- Financial: The business idea should be financially viable .