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(Adnkronos) - L’interscambio tra Italia e Africa ha raggiunto i 60 milioni di euro nel 2024. Per favorire il partenariato tra il mondo delle imprese africano e quello italiano, nasce il programma ‘Africa Champion Program’ di Sace, il gruppo assicurativo-finanziario italiano controllato dal Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze.

Il programma formativo e di business matching, è patrocinato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, con il supporto della struttura di missione per l’attuazione del Piano Mattei della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri e altri attori istituzionali.

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00:00The exchange between Italy and Africa reached 60 million euros in 2024 to provide Italian companies with the necessary tools to approach the African market,
00:15which after 50 difficult years aims to regain a role as a protagonist on the global stage, the Africa Champion Program of SACE was born,
00:24the Italian financial insurance group controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
00:30The Africa Champion Program is divided into two phases, a training course and a second phase of business matching between Italian companies and African counterparts.
00:41We are all here to accompany Italian companies towards this approach to Africa and we can do it because we start from what is our knowledge of that territory.
00:52Let us remember that SACE is the first European export credit agency in terms of exposure to Africa.
01:00From the beginning of the Mattei plan, which we have been taking since January 2024, we have already carried out 1.4 billion initiatives,
01:07which is the starting point from which we are starting to ensure that there is an even greater momentum for small and medium-sized enterprises to enter Africa.
01:15The program, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the International Cooperation with the support of the mission structure for the implementation of the Mattei plan of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and other institutional actors,
01:28is designed to promote forms of commercial partnership between the Italian and African entrepreneurial world in support of the objectives of the Mattei plan, which started at the beginning of 2024.
01:40The Mattei plan has just come out in the Senate, in pilot countries, we are having electric connections between Italy and Tunisia,
01:52we have training centers in Morocco, in Uganda, we have the Manica project in Mozambique for a great optimization of agribusiness processes,
02:06we have the energy that in some way is also bringing Africa to develop a new attitude towards sustainability, while keeping in mind the peculiarities of certain countries.
02:18Today we have hundreds of millions already invested, we have employment, we have thousands of employees and many young people who are slowly beginning to rediscover the taste of feeling middle class,
02:31to feel small, micro, medium, entrepreneurs and finally to be able to make a path of autonomy always under an Italian benevolent hat.

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