The Resource Centres

The ClubHouse is a resource framework of Eolas Solas Laboratories, created to bring to life the creative investigations and promising ideas of Africa’s emerging innovators and amateur researchers. It is a home for inquiries and experiments that traditional institutions often overlook—where inexperience or uncertain hypotheses are not barriers but beginnings.

Within our ClubHouses, innovators gain access to advanced facilities: laboratories for design, modelling, simulation, and fabrication; collaborative spaces for enquiry and dialogue; and training programmes that equip young researchers with the skills and mindset to transform opportunity into tangible results. From hardware prototypes to software solutions, from policy innovations to advocacy, the ClubHouse nurtures ideas into impact.

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But we do not stop at discovery. We are equally committed to incubation and acceleration—helping innovations grow into enterprises by attracting investment, building capacity, and extending their reach to regional and continental audiences. Our aim is clear: to deliver societal impact while catalysing the diffusion and assimilation of a new civilisation in Africa.

As a leading participant in Africa’s innovation ecosystem, ESL Innovation—through its consortium of ClubHouses—seeks to invigorate system-wide dynamism, resilience, and productivity. Each ClubHouse is designed as a vibrant hub: high-performance computing facilities, cutting-edge simulation and rapid prototyping labs, lecture and seminar halls, technical and professional training, networking activities, and contests that challenge imagination. Together, they form living engines of possibility—spaces where Africa’s innovators can learn, create, and shape tomorrow.