Health
Generative-AI guidance adapted to people living with type 1 diabetes.
Programmes · May 2026 – April 2029
IRIS Africa
Responsible generative AI for health and agriculture in Africa — and the ventures that will take it to market.
The project
Innovation shaped by local needs.
IRIS Africa (Intelligent and Responsible Innovation with GenAI for Societal impact) is a three-year Horizon Europe project bringing together eleven European and African partners.
It develops generative-AI tools that turn complex data into clear, culturally adapted guidance — for people living with type 1 diabetes in Ghana, and for agro-pastoralists managing livestock risk and insurance in Kenya — and it builds the local ecosystem of start-ups and SMEs that can adopt, integrate and scale these tools through Living Labs in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.
Explore the project and its latest updates at irisafrica.eu.
Agriculture
Guidance for agro-pastoralists managing livestock risk and insurance.
Living Labs
Local ecosystems where start-ups and SMEs can adopt, integrate and scale the project’s tools.
Kili’s contribution
From pilots to products.
Kili Ventures leads exploitation, twinning and investment readiness in IRIS Africa (Task 6.3, Work Package 6).
We help turn the project’s pilots into investable products and services: we run design-thinking sprints with the Living Lab teams, match African start-ups with European peers for twinning and exchanges, coach teams to investor-grade standards, and organise the project’s brokerage event bringing together VCs, angels and corporate innovators.
We also contribute to capacity building and to mapping the start-up and investment ecosystem in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda, and we lead the project’s Exploitation, Twinning & Exchange Report.
Read the announcement →At a glance
The project in detail.
- Programme
- Horizon Europe — HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-HUMAN-08 (Research & Innovation Action)
- Grant agreement
- 101298721
- Duration
- May 2026 – April 2029 (36 months)
- EU contribution
- €1,999,982 (whole consortium)
- Coordinator
- SUTRA — Sustainable Transition Società Cooperativa (Italy)
- Partners
- 11 organisations in Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Kenya and Ghana
- Action countries
- Ghana, Kenya, Uganda
- Kili’s role
- Lead of Task 6.3 — Exploitation, Twinning & Exchanges
- Project website
- irisafrica.eu
- Contact at Kili
- Davide Rovera, Managing Partner — [email protected]
The consortium
Eleven partners.
A shared purpose.
- SUTRA (coordinator, IT)
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia — UNIMORE (IT)
- Babelscape (IT)
- TRIM (IT)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- CISP (IT)
- ICRAF — International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (KE)
- University of Nairobi (KE)
- KNUST (GH)
- Kili Ventures (UK)
- Fondazione AVSI (IT)
For founders
Building in Kenya,
Ghana or Uganda?
IRIS Africa is designing a capacity-building programme around what founders actually need. Follow the project to hear when it opens, and get in touch if you’d like to be part of it.
Contact [email protected] · #IRISAfricaProjectEU