Award Ceremonies

The award ceremony 2023 took place at the 4^th G20 Investment Summit 2023 German Business and the CwA Countries on November 20, 2023 in Berlin. Dem Festakt mit Preisübergabe durch den Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Jochen Flasbarth, schloss sich eine Paneldiskussion an. Six experts, Benjamin Knödler, BMZ, R. Yofi Grant, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Monika Beck, DEG, Heike Bergmann, Voith Hydro Group, and the two representatives oft he awardees, Philipp Otter, AUTARCON, and Wolfgang Mittmann, Saving Grains, discussed the topic: „Cooperation between development cooperation and the private sector – what makes for successful partnerships?”

A total of around 1,000 participants, including delegations from 18 African countries, took part in the G20 Investment Summit 2023 – German Business and the Compact with Africa (CwA) Countries. The conference aimed to deepen German-African cooperation, send positive signals, expand partnerships on energy issues and integrate African countries more closely into the supply chains of German companies. The creation of sustainable jobs in Africa was also one of the objectives.

More about the summit see here: compactwithafrica.org or watch the video: G20 Investment Summit SAFRI 2023.

(c) Jens Schicke/DIHK

The 2021 award ceremony took place as part of the 14th German-African Energy Forum of the German-African Business Association on 01 June 2021 in Hamburg. In terms of content, the conference provided a suitable setting for the common focus of both award-winning projects: Resource Conservation and Climate Protection.

The conference is usually attended by up to 500 participants, including an average of ten African government delegations and leading energy companies from Germany, Europe and Africa. This year, as a hybrid event, it welcomed 50 guests on site, while several hundred joined the panel discussions and presentations on “Africa’s Energy Leading to a Smart, Green & Inclusive Economic Transformation” virtually. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation was a strategic partner, and sponsors included the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Morocco, the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the World Energy Council Germany. You can find out more about the German-African Business Association here.

From February 11 to 13, 2019, the award ceremony took place in the Ghanaian capital Accra as part of the German-African Business Summit (GABS). After the great success of the first two summits, held in Berlin in 2015 and in Nairobi in 2017, this third conference provided German and African business and political decision-makers with an excellent platform for dialogue. The conference focused on Africa’s economic potential and future trends in German-African cooperation. The Business Summit was supported by the Sub-Saharan Africa Initiative of German Business (SAFRI) and its host organizations, the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), the Federation of German Industries (BDI), the Federation of Wholesale, Foreign Trade, Services (BGA) and the German-African Business Association (AV) in cooperation with the German Chambers of Commerce Abroad (AHK) in sub-Saharan Africa.