Projects
Flagship projects, built with partners.
From open language data for AI to a just energy transition and coastal resilience — each project pairs scientific rigour with community ownership.
LINGUA CAMEROUN
Community language data infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence — pilot language: Yemba.
Cameroon counts more than 240 national languages, yet most are nearly absent from the datasets that train modern AI. LINGUA CAMEROUN establishes the first community-driven language data infrastructure for Cameroonian languages, designing and documenting a scalable, low-connectivity methodology through a pilot on Yemba.
Expected results
- A reference Yemba speech corpus of at least 50 hours of validated recordings
- ~10,000 transcribed and annotated speech segments
- A documented EOSA Language Data Protocol for collection, annotation and quality assurance
- A cohort of 30 trained local language-data contributors (≥ 50% women)
- Open datasets published for the African AI ecosystem
Dschang Green Tech Incubator (DGTI)
Building territorial capacity for a just energy transition in Cameroon.
DGTI accelerates a just energy transition by turning technical competencies into practical solutions through Competency-Based Training, applied research and territorial entrepreneurship. It bridges the gap between academic research, skills development and the community deployment of renewable energy.
Expected results
- Decentralized solar photovoltaic & clean-cooking technologies
- Energy maintenance and technical services
- Green entrepreneurship and innovation support
- A replicable model for green job creation
- Aligned with the SDGs and Cameroon's National Development Strategy (SND30)
In their words
The energy transition must be built by local skills and local innovation
"The future of energy in Africa will not be built elsewhere. It will be built by African youth, African researchers, African technicians and African entrepreneurs. The energy transition is not only a technological challenge — it is also a human and educational transformation."
Dr. Jean de Dieu Nguimfack-Ndongmo
Project Lead, Dschang Green Tech Incubator (DGTI)
DGTI recently secured support through the Impulsouth Just Energy Transition Learning and Innovation Grants Program. EOSA acts as a strategic implementation partner, contributing expertise in Competency-Based Approaches, territorial incubation, mentoring and entrepreneurship support.
Interview — EOSA News Desk
Coastal Resilience & Green Innovation
Community platform for environmental resilience, open data and green entrepreneurship on the Cameroonian coast.
An integrated model that combines environmental data, green entrepreneurship and local skills to support biodiversity conservation, climate resilience and the economic empowerment of coastal communities. It is built on three complementary technical poles.
Expected results
- Eco-Data Coast — community environmental data infrastructure (mapping, biodiversity, mangroves)
- Women & Youth Green Entrepreneurship — waste valorisation, nurseries, circular economy
- Green Skills Coast — training in solar energy, eco-construction and green technologies
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