SophiA at the ENRICH in Africa Center event On June 14th 2023, Kirsten Laaks, a Mechanical Engineer at Everflo was invited to the Inauguration ceremony of the ENRICH in Africa Center in Cape Town. She gave an opening speech about SophiA and Everflo, and she referred specifically to the Woman and Youth Led Initiatives. The…
SophiA at the Sustainable Places event SophiA participated in the Sustainable Places Conference from 14-16 June 2023. This year, the 11th edition of the Sustainable Places conference took place in Madrid, Spain, and online. Sustainable Places is a large platform bringing together actors from research and innovation projects contribution towards building sustainably: from energy…
SophiA participation to board of coordinators meeting in Brussels On the 5th of June, the SophiA coordinators were invited to the Green Deal Board of Coordinators meeting organized by the Green Deal Support Office (GDSO) in Brussels. At the beginning, it was made clear to the coordinators of the 73 EU-funded projects how important your…
On Monday 10 October 2022, a physical SophiA meeting took place between the teams of HKA, SPF-OST and Operieren in Afrika. The Director of Léo hospital, Omar Ouedraogo, and one surgeon of the hospital of Operieren in Afrika, Clarisse Judith, travelled from Burkina Faso for this purpose. Additionally, the German technician of the NGO, Horst…
On October 11-13, 2022, the Chillventa world’s leading exhibition for refrigeration technology took place in Nuremberg (Germany). Most of SophiA’s German partners were present at the stands of HKA and IIR which were located close to each other in Hall 9. The Eveflo partner also came from South Africa for this occasion. The brand new…
On 25-29 July 2022, the SophiA partners met at the International Summer School at the OST Rapperswil-Jona campus and it was all about sustainability! The event was held for the first time by the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HKA), the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST) in Rapperswil, and the Transylvanian University…
A very interactive SophiA workshop took place on the first day of the 15th IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Conference on Natural Refrigerants (GL 2022), in Trondheim (Norway) on June 13-15, 2022. SophiA partners (HKA and IIR) explained the benefits of this European Commission funded project on the African populations but also the complexity and constraints of CO2…
Francis Kéré won the Pritzker, Architecture Prize in 2022. Francis Kéré is the architect who designed the new hospital in Léo, Burkina Faso where the first SophiA system will be installed. Congratulations to Francis Kéré! For more information, you can read articles in Le Monde and The Guardian.
Our partner HKA participated in the clustering meeting “Energy research projects in cooperation with Africa”, organised on the occasion of the inauguration of the EurAfrica Institute. Oliver Schmid, the SophiA project coordinator at HKA participated in the ʺEnergy research projects in cooperation with Africa” clustering meeting organised by CINEA – European Climate Infrastructure and Environment…
Our partner Makerere University launched the international multidisciplinary project “Sustainable Off-grid Solutions for Pharmacies and Hospitals in Africa” (SophiA). On this occasion, Vice-Chancellor Barnabas Nawangwe underlined the importance for Makerere University to participate in the SophiA project. The grant given to Makerere is an opportunity to address the issues faced by health centres in Uganda.…
