The EURAFRI project is a business networking club to build relationships between its members to create business opportunities and development projects.. The idea of EURAFRI is that new opportunities only will be successful if there is a members-only, secure, privacy focused platform to communicate. New business opportunities means additional profit for EURAFRI members.
EURAFRI is based in Salzburg, Austria, but after a short time members from Germany, Spain, Ghana and Uganda joined the club. We believe in strong growing after Corona is under control. The projects target is to build a a small but successful group ob business people and entrepreneurs to enhance their business and find new opportunities.
The project is fully financed by memberships and donations so your membership and donation is needed to get the project forward in the sense of the founders ideas.
Long term successful partnerships starts with talking to people. EURAFRI operates a forum and an Matrix/Riot.im communication server for our members to discuss ideas and communicate end-to-end encrypted over the Internet. Our Team is very experienced in setting up secure text and voice/video communication systems.
The founders of EURAFRI worked for 35 years with great success in 15 countries and know that the result of networking, events and discussions are profitable opportunities! Our members already work together and joined some great project in the textile production, food and car spare spart industrie. Every new member adds a new chance to EURAFRI!
The first “Meet-Me” events are scheduled monthly in district AT5001 and DE8301. Members had lot of good conversations and the feedback to the project itself, as the food and drinks, was great. Ambassador Maximilien will organize “Meet-Me” events in district GH1001 soon too. Our events are the beginning of great cooperations and projects!
As European investors already learned, Africa will play an important part in trading, tourism and the IT/IoT industry over the next decades. Financially well equipped EU companies and entrepreneurs are looking for interesting investment in Africa. Currently there are plans to setup workspaces to educate and train locals in business, IT/IoT and development projects.
Europe has a great need for additional projects in elderly health care, well-trained IT and IoT specialists and new tourism regions. This is a great chance for African entrepreneurs to join projects, get a job or create jobs with their African startup. Furthermore the development project will create local jobs to clean the environment and educate people in the health and waste problematic.
EURAFRI founder Karl was really shocked when seeing the massive waste and plastic problem in Ghana and the board decided to start fundraising for a - Waste and Plastic removal project - in Ghana. It is unacceptable that people must live in this dirt and furthermore plastic in the sea will show up in European food too.
Project Info
EURAFRI is an non-profit organization based in Austria. The idea to build a small but successful network of business people, entrepreneurs, startups and enterprises was in the head of founder Karl since a long time. Small because we do not need dreamers and trolls stealing our time. Fascinated of Africa and its people since his first visit as a young boy in 1978, Karl, the head of founder, dallied with the idea of giving African entrepreneurs, startups and enterprises the chance to join the network for for years. Now, decades later it is time to build a bridge between people from different regions to create or enhance business. Based on Karl’s experience over 35 years EURAFRI will be specialized in trading different goods, real estate, tourism and IT/IoT.
EURAFRI in Detail
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Timeline
We work hard to complete all steps of the EURAFRI project
July 2019
The start of a great story!
We finally decided to start EURAFRI.COM!
August-September 2019
Setup legal and basic stuff!
Do all legal paperwork, register the organization, setup accounts, bookkeeping and web site. We are mostly done, only bank account and lifting Paypal linits. This will happen till 3rd week of September. Organization is registered sind 2019-08-02.
October 2019
Getting the core team and the first members together!
We are faster than our timeline. Specialists with proven Startup experience are fixed, now looking for the first European and African members! You will be special as long as your membership is active! We already nominated our ambassador in Ghana during August 2019 and we are working on nominating our ambassador in Uganda.
2019 /Q4
Funding
We need to collect money and more members for the project! We are able to receive IBAN, Paypal and Bitcoin Payments directly. Our founders and platin-members already donated a value of around 40-50.000 € into the project to be able to install and operate all of the technical infrastructure, finalize all legal and paperwork tasks and prepare the start in Ghana. Now it needs you as member or donor to add your value to EURAFRI! The project finances itself from membership fees and donations only! Join us!
November 2019
Release of EURAFRI Business Directory - AFRICA: Edition 2019!
We are proud that our Platin Partner CTS GMBH created the EURAFRI BUSINESS DIRECTORY AFRICA EDITION 2019 out of the hard work of the EURAFRI team! This e-book, available at DigitalBooks24: https://digitalbooks24.com/author/eurafri-networking/
Jannuary 2020
Cleaning environment from Waste and Plastic!
Even we still are not funded, Karl and Markus was shocked hard from the waste and plastic problem in Ghana. The EURAFRI founders decided to start a - Cleaning environment from Waste and Plastic - development project to help people to be able to live in a clean environment! See https://eurafri.com/blog/ section of this site for shocking images! Please donate with reference -Waste 4.0- to be able to start a massive help. Without your help we can not do anything!
The EURAFRI Networking Platform starts the project Entrepreneurs help entrepreneurs in the context of the current corona virus situation. The current facts speak for themselves: The Corona Virus will probably appear in every country and it should be noted in advance that the EURAFRI team is not really afraid of the virus itself. Rather, there are purely economic concerns that entrepreneurs and companies can encounter. EURAFRI founders Karl and Markus, together with the respective CTS national companies in Austria and Germany, have also been heavily involved in crisis preparedness as part of special measures by authorities and blackouts since 1985.
2020 /Q4
Funding
Due to Corona Lock Downs we extended the time from Q1-Q2 to Q4! The project needs your help! We need donations and more members for the project! Our founders and platin members already donated a value of around 40-50.000 € into the project to be able to install and operate all of the technical infrastructure, finalize all legal paperwork tasks and prepare the start in Ghana. All work for free as volunteer for the project! Now it needs you as member or donor to add your value to EURAFRI! The project finances itself from membership fees and donations only! Without your help we can not move forward!
Completed Funding + 4 Month
after we was able to collect the funds needed for operation detailed plans for first international Meet-Me events are pubished.
Be part of our project!
Our amazing team
EURAFRI.COM is lead by specialists each with 20-40 years proven experience!
over 35 years experience.
Freelance CRO (Chief Restructuring Officer), Import/Export Trader and IT-Consulter. Worked in over 15 countries. Open Source & Privacy Fan, FreeBSD & Linux since 1995 #Austria (Volunteer)
Claus is an retired long time entrepreneur, founder and owner of EMC in Spain. He willing to help EURAFRI members and share his experience. (Volunteer)
We prefer to communicate via the free, secure and open source https://riot.im messenger. Contact @karl:matrix.ctseuro.com or @markus:matrix.ctseuro.com to get invited to the community rooms. Currently all members use Riot!
Feel free to contact us at support@eurafri.com. PGP is recommended for e-mail encryption. PGP encryption works on all modern e-mail clients. The public key for the support address is here: PGP KEY: https://eurafri.com/keys/supportateurafricom.pub
In very urgent cases and for huge donations we are available at +43 5 7676 7676 in case you need to talk to somebody. Please note this is for vip members, donations and core team only! We work on one extensions per core team member.
Bank Transfer Donations
We are able to receive IBAN and NON-IBAN donations to our bank account at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg IBAN: AT08 3500 0000 9116 1059 BIC RVSAAT2S ACCOUNT 91161059 BLZ 35000. Thank you!!
Paypal Donations
Donate as much as you like with Paypal. You can choose the amount you want to donate and also it is possible to create recurring donations.
Bitcoin Donations
Bitcoin donations are done via our self hosted BTCPAY server. No external service involved. We are happy to be able to accept Bitcoins.
EURAFRI in Detail
Karl’s idea of EURAFRI
EURAFRI is a non-profit organization based in Austria. Fascinated of Africa and its people since his first visit as a young boy in 1978, Karl, the head of founder, dallied with the idea of building a network of European and African entrepreneurs, startups and enterprises for years.
Since his first visit in Africa as young boy in 1978 he was fascinated from the countries and the people living there. Now, decades later it is time to build a bridge between people from both regions to create or enhance business and give locals additional jobs. Based on Karl’s experience over 35 years EURAFRI will be specialized in import/export trading, real estate, tourism and IT and IoT startups, enterprises and projects.
Karl, who startet in the IT and consulting business in 1980 founded CTS GMBH (https://cts.at) in 1985. CTS GMBH is very successful and Karl still owns 100% of the shares. Karl has a very interesting network of contacts in different countries and worked with his CTS GMBH in the fields of
- International Trading consumer and technical products - CEO & CIO Coaching - Corporate rehabilitation and insolvency consulting - M&A - Dirty jobs as part of restructuring - Real Estates deals (buy and sell) - IT Infrastructur / Network - IT Security – Firewalls, Virusprotection, Email Security, Appliances - HA Solutions, Servermirroring, Auto Failover - VPN Solutions - Multi OS Rollouts – FreeBSD Unix, Linux, Windows - Asterisk VOIP (Voice over IP) including encrypted telephony - Network Monitoring - Webhosting, E-Commerce Solutions - Virtualization for small and mid sized companies - Open Source Software
EURAFRI is glad that also Markus with over 20 years experience in the IT industry, Claus long term entrepreneur experienced in production and trading and Helga our CFO with over 30 years experience joined the core team of EURAFRI.
The project will focus on creating new friends and business partners, business opportunities, projects, jobs and a better and more successful life for our members.
Karl never took any grants from governments or near governments or political parties placed organizations and so will EURAFRI only work with the membership fees and donations of our members. It is a clear sign that EURAFRI should be fully independent from political leverage.
Eventually EURAFRI and its members will be more successful if the organization is independent and non-profit.
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European Projects
Features of the EURAFRI project
Our European Members benefit from new trading and business opportunities and possible outsourcing possibilities. Within the EU there is a massive interest in real estate, tourism, trading, especially exporting from the EU and a huge request for outsourcing. Main problem for outsourcing and finding new partners handling the projects is to find the right partners or entrepreneurs. EURAFRI gets you in contact with members in Africa.
Members of EURAFRI are ablet o get in direct contact with our African based members and do business with them. EURAFRI does not take any commissions or payments except the membership fee and attending fee for planned events. Everything else is up to you and we support you as much as possible.
But there is not only networking without borders for trading and outsourcing. If you find new friends and possible partners at EURAFRI there will be investment possibilities, possible expansion into a new market, using the planned workspaces and a lot more!
Our core team is very experience in working with friends and partners in other countries and areas. We know that fear of loosing money is a huge point to not start business with foreign partners. Because we really know this, we plan to setup some escrow service in the way that the buyer or investor pays in the money and if everybody satisfies the conditions the money are paid out. In case of problems the escrow service will play the arbitrator. We are working on the escrow part.
Putting it all together there are possibilities to find new friends, partners, trading and business opportunities and investment possibilities. Outsourcing of projects, creating startups within the workspaces and a lot more will be possible.
We are working hard to grow fast and be able to complete all steps as soon as possible!
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African Projects
Benefits for African Entrepreneurs and Startups
# Update Jannuary 2020:
Even we still are not funded, Karl and Markus was shocked hard from the waste and plastic problem in Ghana. The EURAFRI founders decided to start a - Cleaning environment from Waste and Plastic - development project to help people to be able to live in a clean environment! See https://eurafri.com/blog/ section of this site for shocking images!
# African Entrepreneurs and Startups benefits from EURAFRI membership as mentioned below.
- Find new friends and business partners is always a benefit for everybody. - Get in contact with investors for different project, including tourism, real estate and much more - Get in contact with traders for import/export trading - Get help of professional consultants and business professionals within the EURAFRI members and the core team.
# African Startups have the chance to find new customers and/or investors to grow their business in Africa.
- Being able to attend our “Meet-Me” events furthermore get you in touch with new friends and possible partners or investors. - Benefit from the networks and experience of the core team and other members. At EURAFRI we want to get people together leading to more success for everybody - Opportunities to receive orders from EU companies which can be done locally in Africa. This will create new jobs there and furthermore grow the business of the entrepreneur or startup.
Workspaces we plan to setup in Africa will help to build up required infrastructure and Internet connectivity for Startups. Furthermore a workspace is a networking area for its own and will create more opportunities and events to meet friends!
Eventually all members should benefit from membership and after EURAFRI grows up to the size Karl is dreaming of, EURAFRI is a members only community where all members benefits in some way.
