The Adama Business Incubation Centre will host new start-up businesses from former Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) graduates and provide access to production facilities and technical and business assistance to help them – and the region – succeed. The Business Incubation Centre focuses on high quality food processing for natural products.
The highlight of the event will be the official launch and tasting of Adama’s new products:
The Adama Technology Display Centre will be a permanent exhibition displaying the latest technologies and know-how from agriculture, construction, food-processing, textiles, metal and woodwork sectors to micro- and small-enterprises (SMEs). The Centre will build the capacity of entrepreneurs to directly increase their knowledge and indirectly their competitiveness and viability.
Highlights: presentations of the newly developed Advanced Hand Loom (Ines Jensen, Engineering Capacity Building Program [ecbp]) and Advanced Hollow Block (Andreas Wuscher, ecbp)
The goal of the two centers is to increase the standard of living of Ethiopians through the creation of employment by promoting of MSEs. Significant employment can be achieved when MSEs are growth-oriented and innovative.
The Adama Business Incubation Centre and Adama Technology Display Centre follow from those recently established in Dire Dawa and Mekele. The initiative is supported by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, regions’ Bureaus and the Ethio-German Engineering Capacity Building Program (ecbp).
ecbp, established under the Ministry of Capacity Building, works to boost Ethiopia’s industries and create employment opportunities through reform of universities’ faculties of technology, TVET reform, improved Quality Infrastructure of Ethiopian products and strengthening the private sector.