Gluon Art and research

S+T+ARTS
4AFRICA

May 2023 – October 2024
Open call coming soon

Projects
 

With S+T+ARTS4AFRICA, European structures experienced with S+T+ARTS approaches will partner with change-makers in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as existing Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH), and together, they will push for innovation on a regional level by facilitating the involvement of local and international artists with regional stakeholders (industry, regional authorities, SME, NGOs, startups, art institutions, etc) and promoting the concrete outcomes of these collaborations, aiming at three overarching objectives. Those being: 1) accelerate the transition towards a more competitive African economy by stimulating development and uptake of novel technologies that address regional challenges; 2) highlight – through the S+T+ARTS Prize Africa award, the regional rich and complex relationships between technology, arts and culture, and 3) level the regional perception on the potential of innovation and breakthrough technologies´ application to local and indigenous issues.

Residencies

S+T+ARTS4AFRICA will implement this approach and address the above objectives through funding 8 artistic residencies in African technology institutions and other pertinent local stakeholders, in the 5 targeted countries (Nigeria, Senegal, DR Congo, Tanzania, Ghana) and in line with the STARTS residencies program.

The open call will be launched soon, stay tuned!

STARTS4AFRICA is co-funded by the European Union, under the STARTS – Science, Technology and Arts initiative of DG CNECT (GA no. LC-01960720). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or DG CNECT. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Image (left): Breston Kenya / Pexels

Consortium partners: INOVA+ (Portugal) (Coordinator), Ars Electronica (Austria), GLUON (Belgium), PiNA (Slovenia).
Associated Partners: Emerging Communities Africa (Nigeria), Buni Hub (Tanzania), hapaFoundation (Ghana), Picha asbl (DR Congo), Goethe Institut (Germany/Nigeria)