Overview
Donor: | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Application procedure: | Online Application |
Donor base: | United Kingdom |
Reference number: | - |
Eligible applicants: | Individual, Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
Deadline: | 25.07.2024 |
Financial details
Grant size: | Small - up to $100,000 |
Minimum grant size: | - |
Total available budget: | - |
Funding type: | Prize |
Maximum grant size: | 25.000GBP |
Funding ratio: | 100% |
Sectors
- Agriculture & Rural Development
- Health
- Research, Technology & Innovation
Project Locations
Africa
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia
Description
1) Objective
Entrepreneurs with an innovation from any engineering discipline that can provide scalable solutions to local challenges, are invited to apply. Applicants should be in the early stages of commercialising an engineering innovation that:
- is accompanied by an ambitious but realistic business plan that has strong commercial viability
- has strong potential to be replicated and scaled up
- will bring social and/or environmental benefits to a country or countries in sub-Saharan Africa
- is based in, and will benefit, a country in sub-Saharan Africa.
- The innovation can be any new product, technology or service, based on research in any field of engineering, including: agricultural technology, biotechnology, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, design engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, and medical engineering.
2) Eligibility
Applicants can apply as an individual or as part of a team. Individual applicants must be citizens of a country within sub-Saharan Africa. For teams of two or more, the lead applicant (the person who usually participates in most training and other activities) must be a citizen of a country within sub-Saharan Africa.
3) Location
For the purposes of the programme, the definition of sub-Saharan Africa includes all countries defined by the African Union within Central, East, Southern, and West Africa.
4) Budget
It includes a final prize of GBP £25,000 for the winner and £10,000 each for three runners-up.
5) Application
Applications for the Africa Prize 2025 will close on Tuesday 25 July 2024. All applications are submitted on the Academy’s grant management system.