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Africa-Europe-Mediterranean research takes on lab-to-market gap

The 2026 A.U.-E.U.-Med Innovation Fair invites startups and research projects to pitch food and agriculture technologies.

An innovator pitching at the 2025 Innovation Fair in Brussels. (©Kamand Razavi for the European Commission).
An innovator pitching at the 2025 Innovation Fair in Brussels. (©Kamand Razavi for the European Commission).

Europe and Africa have spent years building research and innovation partnerships across food security, health, climate and emerging technologies. But producing promising science is only part of the challenge.

What happens when a publicly funded research project produces a technology worth developing — and the research grant ends?

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