Maputo – The European Union and Mozambique have signed four agreements worth €178 million to strengthen their strategic partnership and accelerate the country’s sustainable development, with the deals covering clean energy, digital inclusion, agriculture, and education.
The agreements were signed on 9 June in Maputo on the opening day of the Mozambique-EU Business Forum 2026, a two-day event bringing together government representatives, businesses, investors, and development partners. Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo presided over the opening ceremony following the signing.
The funding will be channelled across four key areas: €40 million to increase access to electricity, €28 million to accelerate the digital transition with a focus on women’s participation in the digital economy, €60 million to support agricultural businesses and sustainable value chains, and €50 million for education and skills development aimed at preparing Mozambican students for a digital and sustainable future. 
Gonçalo Matias, Minister of State Reform of the Portuguese Republic, represented the European Union at the event and spoke about the significance of the partnership.
“Today, as we launch this Forum, we reaffirm our determination to deepen this partnership built through the Global Gateway — Europe’s strategy to invest in resilient, sustainable, and high-quality infrastructure, connecting people, economies, and opportunities. This is the promise of Global Gateway — a promise of shared prosperity, sustainability, and solidarity,” he said.
Myriam Ferran, Deputy Director-General at the Directorate General for International Partnerships, also addressed the Forum and spoke plainly about what the EU’s Global Gateway initiative means in practice.
“Global Gateway is Europe’s offer to the world, and very much to Mozambique. It is our way of saying: we don’t just want to talk about investment; we want to crowd it in,” she said.
She went further on the mechanics of the initiative: “We bring our public finance, our guarantees, our blended instruments, our technical assistance, and we use them to de-risk the projects that the private sector can then take forward at scale.”
The Forum, running from 9 to 10 June, forms part of the EU’s broader Global Gateway Strategy to strengthen public-private cooperation on sustainable development. It will feature business roundtables, policy dialogues, panel discussions, workshops, and networking sessions for European and Mozambican stakeholders.
The Forum is being held alongside RENMOZ 2026, the fifth edition of the Renewable Energy Business Conference, scheduled for 11 to 12 June, further positioning Mozambique as a key market for European partners in the region.
