Deadline: 14 September, 2020
Royal Academy of Engineering invites eligible applicants to apply for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2020.
The purpose of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation is to stimulate, celebrate, and reward innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The engineering innovation, founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, recognises ambitious African innovators developing scalable engineering solutions to local challenges, demonstrating the importance of engineering as an enabler of improved quality of life and economic development.
Benefits
- The winner will receive £25,000
- Three runners-up will receive £10,000 each
- The four finalists will pitch in the front of a live audience
Eligibility
- Applicants must be individuals or small groups
- Individual applicants must be citizens of a country within sub-Saharan Africa
- For teams of two or more, the lead applicant must be a citizen of a country within sub-Saharan Africa
- The innovation must be based in a country in sub-Saharan Africa
- Applicants must have an engineering innovation, though are not required to be an engineering graduate or student
- Applicants must provide a letter of support from a university, research institution innovation hub or previous incubator programme
- Not open to industrial researchers and establishments
- The lead applicant must be over the age of 18 by 1 September 2020
- The applicant’s innovation can be any new product, technology or service, based on research in engineering defined in its broadest sense to encompass a wide range of fields, including Agricultural Technology, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Design Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and ICT
- Applicants should have developed, and be in the early stages of commercialising, an engineering innovation that will bring social and/or environmental benefits to a country/countries in sub-Saharan Africa
To apply and for more information, click here.
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