Deadline: 31 August, 2023
Melton Foundation has announced a call for applications for the 2023 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Innovation Challenge.
Designed as a virtual, pan-African collaboration space, the challenge is a powerhouse for young Africans to develop cross-boundary, sustainable solutions to grassroots challenges in order to further the SDGs from the grassroots level up.
Benefits
- Access to an unorthodox, dynamic, and diverse platform of youth activists, organisations, and legislators
- Opportunity to visualise and implement the SDGs at the grassroots level – participate in the making of our future and jumpstart your involvement in the sustainable development agenda as an active, passionate global citizen
- Build connections, and be part of a community of practice around eco-systemic, collaborative solutions
- Space to exercise global citizenship muscle
- Collaborate with people from many different domains, including engineering, design, civic policy, social justice reform, project management, finance, education, and many others
Eligibility
- Open to young Africans with passion for creating change
- Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 35
- Applicants must share a passion, drive, and commitment to improving livelihoods in their community and beyond
- Applicants must have a genuine interest in sustainable development and a desire to contribute to advancing the SDGs in their community and beyond
- Applicants must possess the motivation to engage proactively throughout the event
- Applicants must be able to work in an interdisciplinary team from different domains and geographies
- Applicants must have the motivation to extensively ideate throughout the challenge and work in an agile hackathon-like environment
- Applicants must be committed to taking the idea to completion and remain engaged with the cause after the challenge
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Paul Kagame
