To launch a new initiative to provide opportunities to biomolecular scientists in Africa, the IUBMB is offering up to five fellowships for trainees from any country in Africa to attend the 2022 FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE Conference. This event, “The perfect tandem: How technology expands the frontiers of biomedicine”, is hosted by the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), in Spain, on 16-18 November.