The PtX Grant Competition, launched by GIZ South Africa, Lesotho & eSwatini, provides grant funding for tangible, operating demonstrations of green hydrogen and Power-to-X (PtX) applications in South Africa.

The competition is focused on projects that can contribute to job creation, skills development, reduced carbon intensity and the development of South Africa’s green hydrogen value chain.

The KijaniSpace Innovation Program is an innovation support programme under the Horizon Europe project “Empowering Climate-Smart Agriculture with Copernicus and IoT Innovations for Smallholder Farmers in Africa.”

The programme aims to support innovative SMEs and start-ups in the Lake Victoria region that are developing agriculture-related products, services or applications. Selected businesses will improve their existing solutions by integrating Copernicus Earth Observation data, satellite imagery and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies through the KijaniSpace Space-IoT Box.

The Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP) is a flagship innovation initiative of The Innovation Hub designed to identify, support and accelerate high-potential innovations with the potential to become viable, market-ready solutions.

Through its innovation competitions and development platforms, GAP provides a pathway for innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs to develop and strengthen technologies that can contribute to economic growth and societal impact.

The GIZ SAVax programme, in collaboration with Sartorius South Africa and the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), is inviting Expressions of Interest from South African entities to host a centralised biomanufacturing and bioprocessing innovation platform.

The platform aims to address the infrastructure gap faced by biotechnology start-ups and SMMEs that need access to process development, optimisation and pre-commercial scale-up capabilities. The successful host will make the platform available to biotechnology SMMEs across the wider South African ecosystem.

The Circular Bioeconomy Education Centre (CBEC) is offering a free Bio-based Product Innovation course designed to respond to identified skills needs within Ireland's emerging circular bioeconomy.

The course is particularly relevant to industry practitioners and professionals looking to:

The Sorghum Trust provides financial support for projects that benefit the South African sorghum industry, with a particular emphasis on sorghum research and development and the maintenance and dissemination of information required by the industry.

The Trust's application process is designed for projects that can demonstrate a clear benefit to the sorghum industry and that have:

The HealthTech Investor Summit (HIS) 2026 is opening its Phase 2 Pan-European Pitching Selections, giving HealthTech companies with significant activities in Europe an opportunity to be selected to pitch at the HIS 2026 event in Bruges, Belgium, from 30 November to 2 December 2026.

The selection process is structured around three company maturity categories:

The Circular Innovation Challenge 2026 is seeking innovative businesses in Southern Africa with solutions that are beyond the ideation stage and ready to move into testing, implementation or scaling.

The challenge is focused on circular solutions that:

• Reduce waste.
• Keep materials in use.
• Regenerate nature.
• Create social and economic value.
• Support jobs and wellbeing.

Solutions are expected to contribute to a transition from a linear to a circular economy.

WHO CAN APPLY?

The MENA Regenerative Agriculture Venture Programme is designed to empower and upskill scientists, researchers and students working on agricultural challenges relevant to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The programme is aimed at researchers and innovators who have developed research-, science- or nature-based solutions and want to take their work toward proof of concept, while gaining the business and entrepreneurial capabilities needed to commercialise, scale and secure future funding.