Ambitious.Africa is organizing a webinar dedicated to financial literacy for young women, in collaboration with Women’s Bank, the community and fund managed by Finn Church Aid, the largest organization for international aid in Finland.

Ambitious.Africa partners with Hanken School of Economics, Wärtsilä, UNDP, and Hanken ES, for a seven-week course built by students, for students. Its purpose is to innovate new entrepreneurial solutions and drive positive change to help achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ambitious.Africa, a young initiative that aspires to be the bridge between Africa and the Nordics, partnered up with the technology group Wärtsilä.

Ambitious.Africa and Wärtsilä have joined in a strategic partnership based on their mutual values and goals towards supporting youth in Africa and Europe in international collaboration towards a sustainable future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are the key to a sustainable future. Empowerment is a fundamental right that everyone should have equal access to since it has the power to transform society by embracing diversity as something beautiful. Women today face several social and societal difficulties based on their gender alone: gender biases, stereotypes, norms, and oppression. Through equal participation in education, politics, economics, and society overall, women gain the confidence they deserve. Because women can - and women will.

Impact Consultancy connects university students with African startups for mutually beneficial and meaningful collaborations. A telling example is a consultancy of business student Tiia Sinisalo’s for Zambian startup Dawa Health, a cooperation that bore fruit on a professional and human level.

Nordic Startup School hosted a workshop together with Framlabs and Ambitious Africa on September 16th for startups with the aim of accelerating the tech ecosystem in Africa and build profitable businesses.

Only 30% of Africans have a smartphone. The cost of a smartphone is often equivalent to a full month or half a month all earnings, further data costs are expensive as well. The backbone of Africa's economy and well being are women who spend more than 80% of their earnings on family and the community. By enabling women entrepreneurs access to credit and a smartphone the economic opportunities increase, as do the access to life-changing information related to health, education and civic participation.

This is not the typical Europe meets Africa story. You know that times are changing when like-minded individuals from the Nordics and various African countries join hands to create sustainable development virtually. Out goes the preoccupation with foreign aid and in comes mutual respect and understanding.