Category: Challenges
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3MTT Innovation Challenge 2024 for Women
Applications are now invited for the 3mtt innovation challenge 2024. Here’s about the challenge. To celebrate the upcoming International Women’s day 2024, the Federal Ministry of Information, Innovation, and digital economy together with 3MTT is organizing an innovation challenge for women. According to the minister of Information, Innovation and digital economy on X, he said:…
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Tech4dev Digital for All Challenge 2024 for Nigerians (UP to N95 Million Prize)
The Digital for All Challenge is Africa’s largest digital skills competition, with the goal of rewarding self-development and encouraging the acquisition and application of digital skills via competitive incentives. It is a free digital skill-building competition and program designed to boost digital literacy in Nigeria and spark interest in gaining digital skills and certifications using…
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GBSN Africa Business Concept Challenge 2024 for African undergraduate and graduate students
GBSN announces the fourth annual Africa Business Concept Challenge (ABCC), a virtual competition for African undergraduate and graduate students.The competition asks student teams to create a viable business plan that addresses a locally relevant challenge or problem related to Agenda 2063, inclusive and sustainable development. The Africa Business Concept Challenge aims to support young individuals…
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Applications Now Open: National Girls in ICT Competition 2024
Applications are now open for the National Girls in ICT Competition 2024. Here’s all you need to know about the competition. Introducing the National Girls in ICT Competition, an initiative that seeks to transform the ICT landscape in Nigeria by creating a platform for girls in secondary schools to showcase their skills, creativity, and innovation…
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Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Challenge 2024 for Africans
RAIN aims to convert seed-level innovative agricultural ideas that are meeting resilience needs in East Africa and scale them to sustainable business ideas of interest to private investors and funders. The aim is to identify new innovative agricultural initiatives and provide customized support to maximize each initiative’s potential for impact. The challenge will align potential…
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The Sustainable Enterprise Challenge Programme 2024
This program aims to provide young Lagos citizens with the necessary practical skills, knowledge, and confidence to succeed as entrepreneurs. The Sustainable Enterprise Challenge Programme is a British Council and Prince’s Trust International program executed by Nerdzfactory Company that aims to provide young people with a comprehensive toolbox of skills applicable to both future employment…
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Apply Now: Orange Startup Challenges 2024
Applicants are urged to apply to the Orange Startup Challenges 2024. Every year, for four adrenaline-pumping days, VivaTech brings together in Paris the best corporate leaders, startups, investors, researchers, and innovators to spark positive change in business and society. The eighth edition will be held in Paris, at Expo Porte de Versailles, from May 22…
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World Bank Youth Innovation Challenge 2024: Water Solutions for a New Climate Reality
The World Bank Youth Innovation Challenge: Water Solutions for a New Climate Reality aims to accelerate innovation and unleash the potential of the world’s next generation of youth aquapreneurs. The World Bank and its partners welcome all interested and qualified young aquapreneurs to submit proposals for creative solutions to one or more of four global…
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Call for Applications: WAICF AI Startup Challenge
The WAICF (World AI Cannes Festival) AI Startup Challenge is looking for ambitious and innovative firms eager to make a significant impact in the world of AI. We are searching for teams and people who are enthusiastic about artificial intelligence and its potential applications in a variety of sectors. Whether you are a fledgling startup…
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Airbus and BMW Group Global Quantum Computing Challenge ( €30k per winner )
Submissions are invited from students, researchers, and professional experts in Quantum Technologies to address the most urgent mobility challenges. Airbus and BMW Group have jointly initiated a groundbreaking global Quantum Computing Challenge named “The Quantum Mobility Quest.” The challenge is specifically designed to address formidable challenges in aviation and automotive sectors that conventional computers have…
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Worldwide World Press 2024 Photo Contest for Photographers (5,000 Euros cash prize)
The annual World Press Photo Contest honors and celebrates the greatest photojournalism and documentary photography from the previous year, as chosen by an international independent jury. Entering is free, and awards include up to €6,000 in cash and inclusion in our yearly traveling show, among other things. Benefits Entering the World Press Photo Contest is…
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YALI RLCs/ POWER AFRICA Design Challenge 2024 for young Africans
The Regional Leadership Centres (RLCs) of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) promote the use of environmentally friendly technologies to effectively manage the African continent’s energy crisis. To support the work of alumni in this sector, the RLCs in collaboration with Power Africa, are posing a design challenge to women alumni who are active within…
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EPRI Incubatenergy Labs Challenge for Startups
Incubatenergy Labs is built for startups to engage EPRI and electric power energy providers in paid demonstration projects. An energy providers summit and collaborative demonstrations program in one, the program links startup companies leading the advancement of electrification, decarbonization and grid modernization with energy providers from around the world that have the capacity and desire…
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Hitachi Innovation Challenge for Digital Circular Economy
Do you wish to collaborate with an IT industry pioneer? In keeping with Hitachi’s purpose of social innovation and environmental ease, the company has created the Innovation Challenge for Digital Circular Economy to ensure that the planet we leave to future generations is a better place than the one we discovered! We’d want to hear…
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SBN Nourish Nigeria NutriPitch Challenge 2023 |Up to ₦10Million
In collaboration with the FATE Foundation, the Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) will hold the 2023 edition of the SBN’s Annual pitch competition. FATE Foundation is the longest-running enterprise support organization, having delivered pre-incubation, incubation, and accelerator programs for over 22 years. The project is a Business Model Research study that is part of…
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Call for Applications: Dell Technologies Graduation Project Competition 2024
The competition is designed to inspire students’ creativity for their graduation projects, allowing them to take an active role in IT transformation and win rewards. If you are a senior student working on your graduation project in the FinTech, Sustainability, Education, Healthcare, or Wellbeing sectors, you are invited to join them for an exciting ride!…
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Call For Applications: Jemila Abubakar Memorial Essay Competition 2024 (N450,000 Prizes)
Applications are now open: Jemila Abubakar Memorial Essay Competition 2024. The Jemila Abubakar Essay Competition is an annual essay competition organized in memory of Miss Jemila Abubakar, the pioneer program manager of Asido Foundation who passed after a brief illness in July 2020. The competition is opened to undergraduates in Nigerian tertiary institutions (universities, polytechnics,…
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The Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthADAPT) Challenge 2023 for young African Entrepreneurs ($USD 100,000 Business grant)
Applications are now open for The Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthADAPT) Challenge 2023. Here’s how to apply: Application Deadline: November 5th 2023 The African Development Bank Group and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) are jointly implementing a strategic partnership program, the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), aimed at mobilizing $25 billion to scale up and accelerate climate change adaptation…
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Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2023 Application ($50,000 Award)
Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2023 Application ($50,000 Award) The Ecobank Fintech Challenge identifies and partners Fintechs that are ready to scale and provides them with support and access to opportunities in Ecobank’s 35 African markets. The goal? To contribute to their growth as potential Pan African Fintech success stories. The Challenge is open to all Fintechs on…
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Heirs Life Essay Championship 2023 for Secondary School Students in Nigeria | Win N2,000,000 scholarship
The Heirs Life Essay Championship 2023 is officially accepting applications. The Heirs Life Essay Championship is an annual essay competition organized by Heirs Life to enhance young kids’ literacy while honoring their creativity. This year’s version is accessible to kids in Junior Secondary Schools across Nigeria, and they have the opportunity to compete for a…
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Malaria Innovation Essay Competition 2023 for African Youth |USD$5,000 Prize
Do you want to make a difference in your community while also combating one of Africa’s most critical public health challenges, malaria? Do you have new ideas and perspectives on how to battle this disease? Then this is the competition for you! Malaria is still a major problem in Africa. Malaria will kill over 600,000…
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Call for Application: SystemSpecs 2023 Children’s Day Essay Competition
Applications are now open for the SystemSpecs 2023 Children’s Day Essay Competition. Here’s how to apply: Are you ready? The 2023 SystemSpecs Children’s Day Essay Competition (CDEC) is here again and promises to be great! This competition is not your usual essay contest – it is a chance for all primary and secondary school students…
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D-Prize Challenge 2023 for Social Entrepreneurs to fight Poverty ($USD 20,000)
Applications are now open for the D-Prize Challenge 2023 for Social Entrepreneurs to fight Poverty. Here’s how to apply for the program. Application Deadline:  24 June 2023 23:59 PT D-Prize seeds new ventures that distribute proven poverty interventions. The world has already invented products and services to end poverty. Yet we have found many proven interventions with large delivery gaps.…
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UNEP/UN Volunteers Young Talent Pipeline 2023
Deadline: May 15, 2023 Applications are open for the UNEP/UN Volunteers Young Talent Pipeline 2023. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, is actively looking for the first cohort of young, passionate, and skilled talent from less represented regions of the world to join the organization and become the environmental…
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Call for Applications: Techmybiz Pitchathon for Nigerian Startups and Innovators 2023
Applications are now open for the Techmybiz Pitchathon for Nigerian Startups and Innovators 2023. Here’s how to apply: Techmybiz is an end-to-end digital transformation process to identify and select digital solutions (targeted or adaptable for MSMEs) developed by Nigerian innovators and/or start-ups, further develop the selected digital solutions, support market awareness promotion to facilitate digital…
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Google Solution Challenge 2023 for University Students worldwide.
Applications are now open for the Google Solution Challenge 2023 for University Students worldwide. Here’s how to apply: Application Deadline:  March 31st, 2023 Submissions are officially open for the 2023 Google Solution Challenge! Build a solution to a local problem using Google technologies, in accordance with one or more of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The…
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Schneider’s NextGen 2023 Global Student Competition for students worldwide
Application Deadline: March 30, 2023 Schneider Electric is looking for game changers in the buildings segment: AI, new business formats, smart ways to use data, new energy sources… Dare to disrupt! Submit your bold idea related to this year challenge and try to win great prizes and opportunities. Register now! For this edition, Schneider Go Green 2023, is returning…
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Call for Applications: International Women Day Conference 2023 Pitch Competition (N1,000,000 Prize)
This conference is a platform and beacon for all female entrepreneurs to gain knowledge, network and receive relevant tips on how to succeed as a female in every industry. This one-day intensive conference provides female entrepreneurs the opportunity to meet with other successful female entrepreneurs who are strategic and brilliant innovative thinkers; the event will…
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World Bank & Financial Times Youth Blog Competition 2023
Deadline: March 31, 2023 Applications are open for the World Bank & Financial Times Youth Blog Competition 2023. If you’re aged 16 to 19 and currently enrolled in high school, The World Bank & Financial Times would like to hear about your experience with post-COVID education and learn your ideas for the way forward. Please tell…
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Call for Applications: AFD Digital Challenge for African Digital Startups in Cultural and Creative Industries (up to €45,000 per winner)
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has recently launched its sixth edition of the AFD Digital Challenge. AFD Digital Challenge is an annual competition open to digital start-ups that devise and implement innovative solutions for Africa’s development. Every year, a theme related to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is identified and proposed…
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FMYSD/Bank of Industry National Sixty-Day App Development Challenge for young Nigerians (N10 million in cash prize)
Applications are now open for the Bank of Industry National Sixty-Day App Development Challenge. Here’s how to apply: Application Deadline: March 10, 2023 The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development in partnership with the Bank of Industry invites Nigerian youth to participate in the 2nd National Sixty-Day App Development Challenge. The Sixty-Day App challenge is aimed at engaging…
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RICE Business Plan Competition 2023 for Student Entrepreneurs (Up to $2M in prizes)
Applications are now open for the RICE Business Plan Competition 2023. Here’s how to apply: Deadline: February 28, 2023 The competition, just completing its 22nd year, gives collegiate entrepreneurs real-world experience to pitch their startups, enhance their business strategy and learn what it takes to launch a successful company. Hosted and organized by the Rice…
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Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable investing Challenge 2023 for Graduate Students Worldwide ($USD15,000).
Application Deadline: January 15, 2023 Every year, the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge invites teams of graduate students from around the world to develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges. The Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge seeks to identify the next generation of sustainable finance practitioners, connect emerging leaders with industry professionals…
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Flour Mills of Nigeria Prize for Innovation 2023 (N5,000,000 prize)
Applications are now open for the Flour Mills of Nigeria Prize for Innovation 2023. Here’s how to apply: Deadline: January 5, 2023 Applications are open for the Flour Mills of Nigeria Prize for Innovation 2023. The FMN’s Prize for Innovation aims to highlight new and imaginative ways to achieve sustainability in Nigeria’s food value chain. This…
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Flour Mills of Nigeria Prize for Innovation 2023 (N5,000,000 prize)
Applications are now open for the Flour Mills of Nigeria Prize for Innovation 2023. Here’s how to apply: Deadline: January 5, 2023 Applications are open for the Flour Mills of Nigeria Prize for Innovation 2023. The FMN’s Prize for Innovation aims to highlight new and imaginative ways to achieve sustainability in Nigeria’s food value chain. This…
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The AKO Caine Prize Award 2023 for African Writing (£10,000 Cash Prize)
Application Deadline: January 26, 2023 The AKO Caine Prize Award for African Writing is an annual literary award for a published short story by an African writer. In addition to the £10,000 prize, we invite five shortlisted writers to London for a series of events including public readings, interviews with media institutions, private event with agents,…
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UONGOZI Institute Youth Leadership Competition 2023 ($2,000 prize)
Deadline: January 10, 2023 Applications are open for the UONGOZI Institute Youth Leadership Competition 2023. The Youth Leadership Competition is organised as a component of the African Leadership Forum (ALF) to provide a space for the youth of Africa and the next generation of leaders in the region to contribute to important discussions on leadership and…
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Call for Applications: World Press Photo Contest 2023 (€5,000 prize)
Deadline: January 10, 2023 Applications are open for the World Press Photo Contest 2023. The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year. Enter your work for free and you could win €1,000 as a regional winner and an additional €5,000 as a global winner,…
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danceWEB Scholarship Programme 2023 (up to €6,600)
Deadline: December 15, 2022 Applications are open for the danceWEB Scholarship Programme 2023. The scholarship programme offers young professional dancers and choreographers from mainly European but also from non-European countries the possibility to take part in an intense multinational further training programme. The Programme is a 5-week residency taking place every year in July –…
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danceWEB Scholarship Programme 2023 (up to €6,600)
Deadline: December 15, 2022 Applications are open for the danceWEB Scholarship Programme 2023. The scholarship programme offers young professional dancers and choreographers from mainly European but also from non-European countries the possibility to take part in an intense multinational further training programme. The Programme is a 5-week residency taking place every year in July –…