Africa-Europe Foundation

EU Legislative Interests

- Agriculture and rural development - Climate action - Culture and media - Digital economy and society - Education and training - Employment and social affairs - Energy - European neighbourhood policy - Food safety - Foreign affairs and security policy - International partnerships - Maritime affairs and fisheries - Migration and asylum - Public health - Research and innovation - Trade - Transport - Youth

Communication Activities

 17 December 2025, Brussels. Organisation of a workshop in partnership with DG Research on the implementation of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda.  20-25 November 2025, Luanda. AEF Participation to the Youth and CSO Forum organised by the EC and the AUC in the context of the 7th AU-EU Summit. Partnercipation of EC DG INTPA Director for Human Development, Migration, Governance and Peace, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)’s Managing Director for Southern & Eastern Mediterranean and EIB Director for International Partners Department to AEF closed-doors Africa-Europe roundtables on investment and transition mineral cooperation organised in the context of the AU–EU Business Forum (AEBF),   14 November 2025, Midrand and virtual. AEF address to the Members of the European Parliament at the Pre AU-EU Summit’s EU- AU Parliamentary Meeting.  12 October 2025, Berlin. EC DG INTPA Deputy Director General (Responsible for health, education, migration, gender equality, peace and security, resources) to AEF closed doors Africa–Europe Dialogue on the Future of Global Health at the World Health Assembly.  08 October 2025, Addis Ababa. Participation of EEAS Special Representative to the African Union, EEAS Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to the African Union and EIB Head of Representation to Ethiopia and the African Union to AEF roundtables at the African Think Tank Summit.  22 September 2025, New York. Participation of the Deputy Managing Director the European Investment Bank (EIB) to AEF closed-door Africa-Europe High Level Dinner in the sidelines of the 8Oth General Assembly of the United Nations.  10 September 2025, Addis Ababa. Participation of the EC Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition to AEF closed-door roundtable on Africa-Europe Cooperation on Energy Transition Minerals  30 June 2025, Sevilla. Participation of the EU Commissioner for International Partnerships and the Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) to AEF High-Level Ministerial Dinner on Sustainable Finance and Growth organised at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development  06 June 2025, Marrakesh. Participation of the EU Special Representative (EUSR) for the Sahel region and the Deputy Head of Unit for Strategic Partnerships EU-Africa/ACP of EC DG INTPA to AEF High Level Group of Personalities (HLG) meeting at the Ibrahim Governance Weekend.  10 February 2025, Brussels. Participation with observer status to the first meeting of the Public knowledge subgroup of the EU Board on Critical Raw Materials.  5-6 November 2024, Brussels. Organisation of the Africa-Europe High-Level Group of Personalities meeting and the Future Africa-Europe High-level Forum including high-level participation of EEAS and EC DG INTPA, Charles Michel, former French President, Jutta Urpilainen, former President of the European Council, and Marta Temido, member of the European Parliament and former Portuguese Minister of Health.  21 October 2024, Brussels. Briefing at the European Parliament provided to the Africa Policy Community (facilitated by the ACP Unit), composing of members of the development, foreign affairs and trade committees ahead of hearings for the new College of Commissioners.  14 October 2024, Brussels. Participation to the Second plenary of the Global Gateway Civil Society and Local Authorities Advisory Platform.  9 July 2024, Brussels. Organisation of the event “Future Africa-EU Strategic Roundtable” including high-level representatives from European Commission DG INTPA, EEAS and European Parliament ACP Unit.  8 July 2024, Brussels. Co-organisation of the event “Youth in Action. ‘Financing the Future’ Forum: An Africa-EU Perspective” in collaboration with the European Commission DG INTPA.  19 March 2024, Brussels. Presentation of the State of Africa-Europe Report to European Parliament DEVE Committee’s special hearing co-organised with the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific Uni

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

From 2025 AEF is member of Philea (Philanthropy Europe Association), an organisation uniting over 10,000 public-benefit foundations, networks, and individual philanthropies. Philea is based in Brussels and advocates for an enabling policy environment for the philanthropy sector in Europe.

Organisation Members

The Africa-Europe Foundation (AEF) is governed by a two-tier Board, comprised of a High-Level Group and an Executive Committee. The High-Level Group is composed of experienced leaders from Africa and Europe and the co-chairs of AEF’s multistakeholder Strategy Groups, and the Executive Committee is composed of representatives of the founding partners of the organisation, that-is-to-say ‘Friends of Europe’ (www.friendsofeurope.org ), Mo Ibrahim Foundation (https://mo.ibrahim.foundation), the African Climate Foundation (https://africanclimatefoundation.org) and the ONE Campaign (https://www.one.org/international).

Additional Information

The total amount of EU grants received in 2024 includes grants from the European Commission . It does not include EU funds received through service contracts