KijaniSpace Innovation Programme - Space-IoT Solution Box for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa
European Commission · Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) · cascade funding under HORIZON-EUSPA-2023-SPACE-01-46
Posted 15 Sept 2026 · 16 days left
In plain terms
The European Commission's KijaniSpace programme funds innovation experiments using satellite and IoT technology to improve climate-smart agriculture in the Lake Victoria Basin and wider African regions. The programme supports projects addressing weather monitoring, water quality, crop management and related challenges, with a total budget of 25,000 euros available for cascade funding grants, and applications due by 16 October 2026.
A generated summary of the donor's text; the original wording is below.
Summary
Expected Innovation Experiments
Applicants will propose an innovation experiment that improves an existing product, service or application using Space-IoT Box resources. The proposed experiment must:
Address a relevant climate-smart agriculture challenge.
Use Copernicus, Earth Observation, IoT or other Space-IoT Box-supported resources.
Demonstrate how the existing product, service or application will be improved.
Present a clear implementation plan, expected outputs and budget.
Show potential value for users, customers or stakeholders in the Lake Victoria Basin region or the wider target countries.
Example Application Areas
Applicants may propose innovation experiments linked to areas such as:
Weather and climate monitoring using IoT sensors and remote sensing data.
Water quality monitoring for fish farming.
Fish farming decision-support services.
Crop monitoring and crop phenology.
Farm input planning, irrigation support and farm management.
Crop disease risk monitoring and alerts.
Seasonal planning and agroclimatic zoning.
Precision agriculture using satellite imagery and IoT data.
Hydrological flow assessment using IoT observations and satellite image analysis.
These are…
Excerpt from the donor's page. The full text, annexes and forms are on the original call.
Eligible regions
- africa
Who can apply
- ngo_cso
- academia_research
- private_company
- social_enterprise