Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Applications are invited for Africa Prize from ambitious and talented
sub-Saharan African engineers from all disciplines to stimulate, celebrate
and reward innovation and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa.

Shortlisted
applicants will receive a six-month package of tailored support to help them
achieve commercial success from their innovation. The overall winner will
receive £25,000 (or local currency equivalent).

The Africa Prize for
Engineering Innovation is
designed to support the commercial development
of engineering innovations that have a positive impact on social and economic
development in the region.

Course
Level: The
Africa Prize will encourage ambitious and talented sub-Saharan African
engineers from all disciplines to apply their skills to develop scalable
solutions to local challenges, highlighting the importance of engineering as an
enabler of improved quality of life and economic development.

Study Subject: Engineers from all
disciplines are eligible to apply for this programme.

Scholarship
Award: Crucial
commercialization support is awarded to a shortlist of innovative applicants
through a six-month period of training and mentoring. Following this period of
mentorship, finalists will be invited to present at an event held in Africa and
a winner will be selected to receive £25,000 along with runners-up, who will
each be awarded £10,000.

Scholarship
can be taken in
Sub-Saharan Africa

Eligibility: Applicants must meet all of
the following criteria to be eligible to apply for this scholarship:-

Applicants
must be individuals or groups of no more than three people.
Applicants
must be citizens of a country within sub-Saharan Africa and currently
reside there. For teams of two or three, the lead applicant must be a
citizen of a country within sub-Saharan Africa and currently reside there.
Applicants
must be engineers who can provide a letter of support from a university of
research institution.
Applicants should have achieved the development of, and be in the early
stages of commercialising an engineering innovation that:
Will
bring social and/or environmental benefits to country/countries in
sub-Saharan Africa
Has
strong potential to be replicated and scaled up
Is accompanied
by an ambitious but realistic business plan which has strong commercial
viability.
Industrial researchers and establishments are not eligible.
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, ICT, materials
science, mechanical engineering, and medical engineering. If applicants
are in any doubt that their area of expertise would be considered
engineering then please contact the Academy to discuss their application.

Nationality: Applicants from sub-Saharan
Africa (Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde,
Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho,
Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia,
Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra
Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe) are eligible to apply for this programme.

College
Admission Requirement

Entrance
Requirements: Applicants must be engineers who can provide a letter of support
from a university of research institution.

Test Requirements: Applicants
must have an engineering innovation and provide a letter of support from a
university of research institution.

How to
Apply: The
mode of application is online.

After logging in to
the online Grant System and selecting the relevant scheme (Africa Prize for
Engineering Innovation) applicant should be presented with the ‘Instructions’
screen. Here they will see some general instructions on how to use the system
as well as the six sections of the application form: