Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Royal Academy of Engineering
is delighted to offer the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for 2017/2018
academic year. Applicants from sub-Saharan Africa are eligible to apply for
this programme.

The aim of the
Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation is to stimulate, celebrate and reward
innovation and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa.

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

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

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: