How do I submit a project?
On our website, click on “Submit a project”
Download the presentation file .
Complete the online form
Send the required documents to [email protected]. Your registration is done!

What is the time frame for DLA?
Call for projects :
From 1st of June to 31st of August 2016: Submit your project online and send the documents to [email protected]
September: Selection of projects by the Digital Lab Africa selection committee
30 September: announcement of the projects selected for the pitch competition at DISCOP AFRICA Johannesburg
Pitch competition at DISCOP AFRICA Johannesburg (2-4 November 2016):
2 Nov: Pitch competition for each category
3 Nov: Workshops and thematic presentations linked to the various categories
4 Nov: Announcement of the winning projects (1 per category) and prize-giving ceremony for the Project Incubation (2017) prizes
Incubation phase:
Between January and October 2017: the incubation phase will last for a period of 3 to 6 months. It will be adapted to the specific needs of each project and will include a residency in France of variable duration depending on the project, up to a limit of one month.
DISCOP AFRICA Johannesburg 2017: Presentation of completed projects

What is the Video Game (Serious Game) category?
A Serious Game is a game with an utilitarian objective: learning, edutainment , simulation, information , engagement and advertisement, for both mobile application or full screen (computer, smartphone, TV, tablet…). To see examples of Serious Game, you can visit this Page (“Examples”).

What is the Digital Music category?
There exists lots of platforms and apps: You Tube, Daily Motion, Sound Cloud, and many others. Maybe you have an innovative idea to listen to and share music?
For the Digital Music category, we are looking for projects offering an innovative and enriching experience for users or professionals. The project should be aimed at video or digital music platforms on the Internet or mobile phone. Example: creating an app to build a multimedia world and an interactive community around an artist, a new professional network to improve artists ‘exchanges on the continent, etc.

What is the Virtual Reality Category?
Virtual Reality is the technology to create and watch images in 3D or in 360° : in short , it allows the audience to feel part of the screen, instead of only “in front” of the screen. The objective of Virtual Reality is to immerse the spectator into the image.
Here is a definition of VR: “Virtual reality (VR), also known as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated reality is a computer technology that replicates an environment, real or imagined, and simulates a user’s physical presence and environment to allow for user interaction.”
Watch the teaser of I-Philip, the first French VR- movie, by Okio-Studio (mentor of the VR Category ). You can use your mouse or touchpad to turn the image 360°!

What is the Web creation category?
This category targets all audio-visual material produced to be viewed online (first digital content) in a non-linear way. The category is open to innovative concepts and to any type of content: fiction, documentary, animation, reality shows, news, sport, entertainment, talk shows, debates, TV formats and magazine programmes (food, environment, lifestyle, culture, comedy, educational…). Projects that aim to attract an audience, engage with it and retain it, and that can be formatted into episodes or thematic channels, will be considered first.
Submit your project online and develop it with the support of Lagardère Studios, leader in Audio-visual production in Europe.

What is the Transmedia category?
We are looking at all content produced for the web which offers an innovative way of telling stories (new formats of writing/narrative). Projects with an international focus which offer an original experience to the public, irrespective of the genre - fiction, documentary, animation, magazine, entertainment, news… - will be considered first. Examples: an interactive web documentary or a web series including a participative element (involvement of the public via an app, a chat, social media, video game…).
Submit your transmedia project and develop it with the support of ARTE, the European culture channel and at the avant-garde of new formats for the web.

I don’t know which category my project belongs to.
∞If you want to develop…:
- An online platform or an app to share music (such as You tube, Daily motion of Sound Cloud)
- An online network for musicians,
- A website to promote music (for example the local artists of your city, or the new trend in a suburb)
… or any other TOOL to listen to or share music : then your project belongs to the Digital Music category.
∞If you want to develop… :
- A web series, a web documentary or web report, a thematic video channel, … etc.
- An online narrative (fiction, documentary , animation), a broadcast (political, culinary, environmental, cultural, comedy, series,…), a program (educative, news & reports , games, talk shows, debates)
… Or any other audio-visual material produced to be viewed online (first digital content) in a non-linear way (Smartphones, tablets , computers), then your project belongs to the Web creation category.
∞If you want to develop…:
- An interactive audio-visual production (implicating the audience with chats, social networks, video game)
- Content produced for the web which offers an innovative way of telling stories (new formats of writing/narrative).
- Or any project with an international focus which offer an original experience to the public, irrespective of the genre - fiction, documentary, animation magazine, entertainment, news… then your project belongs to the Transmedia category.
∞If you want to develop…:
- A production using Virtual Reality technology, 360° video, and 3D interactions (for instance to show a museum visit, an exhibition, a landscape, or to illustrate reports/news, a video game, a musical clip, etc.) then your project belongs to the Virtual Reality category.
If you want to develop…:
-a prototype/concept of Serious Game, learning games, edutainment games, simulation games, games which inform, engage and advertise for mobile application or full screen (computer, smartphone, TV, tablet…) then your project belongs to the Video Game (Serious game) category.

You are not able to categorize your project?
Submit it on our website, and we will help you to classify it into one of the categories.

We are two (or more) creators: can we submit a collective project?
Yes, you can. But only one person will be able to pitch the project at DISCOP AFRICA. If you win in your category , only one person will benefit from the residency in France as part of the incubation program. .

Am I going to give up my intellectual property rights?
DLA does not own any intellectual property rights on your project.
If your project is selected at DISCOP, the partners will support the development of your project but they will have no property rights unless you give it to them.
Likewise, if your project is not selected, the organizers will not have any rights related to the proposed contents.

How can I contact the Digital Lab Africa team?
If you have question not answered here, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. We will give you an answer as soon as possible.