KAMBA AI Living Lab in Central Africa – Field pilot for International Cooperation in AI

CFTP KAMBA is looking for European and international partners to build or join a consortium under Horizon Europe Cluster 4 – Digital, Industry and Space, especially the topic HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-06 – International cooperation in AI.

We are developing the “KAMBA AI Agri-Livestock Living Lab RCA” initiative, a field-based African Living Lab in the Central African Republic. The objective is to test and adapt practical AI, local data, IoT-enabled monitoring and decision-support tools in real-life conditions.

The proposed first pilot focus is intentionally narrow and measurable:

1. Soil humidity, local climate data and sowing-period recommendations;

2. Agriculture-related beekeeping data, as beekeeping in the Central African Republic is mostly practiced by farmers and rural households as a complementary income-generating activity.

This approach would allow the same rural participants to collect both agricultural and beekeeping-related data, such as soil humidity, rainfall, sowing periods, crop conditions, flowering periods, hive activity, honey harvests, honey quality and basic traceability.

KAMBA can contribute as a field-based Living Lab partner by providing:

- real pilot sites and use cases in the Central African Republic;

- access to rural communities, farmers, women entrepreneurs, young trainees and trainers;

- local data collection opportunities;

- technical and vocational training capacity;

- user feedback and field validation;

- institutional links with the agriculture and livestock sectors.

We are seeking partners with expertise in:

- artificial intelligence and responsible AI;

- IoT and sensor-based monitoring;

- Earth Observation and local data integration;

- digital agriculture and climate-smart farming;

- beekeeping, food safety and agro-processing;

- data platforms, dashboards and decision-support systems;

- Horizon Europe project coordination.

KAMBA does not aim to coordinate the proposal. We are looking to join a strong consortium as a field pilot and Living Lab partner in Central Africa, bringing real use cases, local beneficiaries and institutional anchoring.