Sign up for Africa’s biggest prize dedicated to engineering innovations and stand a chance to win commercialization support for your innovation.
Selected innovators building engineering solutions to local challenges will be granted an eight-month inclusive training period that will culminate in a special online event where a winner is chosen to receive £25,000, and three runners-up will each be awarded £10,000.
Application Deadline: September 14, 2020
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Benefits
All 16 shortlisted entrepreneurs for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation will receive:
Commercialization support
Eight months of training and mentoring
Access to business and technical expertise
Access to potential partnerships and opportunities
A chance to win a cash prize of up to £25,000
Access to a global network of entrepreneurs
Other prizes include
£25,000 monetary prize for the winner
£10,000 monetary prize each for three runners-up
Eligibility
To be eligible for this prize:
Applicants must be individuals or small groups.
The lead applicant must be over the age of 18 by 1 September 2020.
Applicants must be citizens of a country within sub-Saharan Africa. Eligible countries include
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo Republic
Côte d’Ivoire
Djibouti
DR Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe.
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.
Requirements/Specifications
Applicants are not required to be engineering graduates or students
Industrial researchers and establishments are not eligible for this Prize.
The innovation being submitted for this prize 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
Medical engineering.
Applicants should have developed, and be in the early stages of commercializing, an engineering innovation that:
Will bring social and environmental benefits to a 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
Registration is required ahead of Thursday, 3 September, to receive login details to join the online event.
Participants should note that this event will be recorded and published on the Royal Academy of Engineering website.
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Applicants must provide a letter of support from a university, research institution innovation hub, or previous incubator program. This can be as simple as stating that an individual studied at or was involved with that institution.
About the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
Launched in 2014, the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation seeks to promote, fund, recognize and honor engineering entrepreneurship in Africa.
The Prize provides in-depth training, mentoring, and communications support to outstanding ventures.
Founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation is Africa’s biggest prize for engineering innovation.
Participants will pitch their businesses for the chance to win £25,000 and the 2020 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. The event will also include a fireside chat from a guest speaker and a virtual exhibition for connecting with this year’s shortlisted candidates.
The prize will be awarded to driven 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.
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Past Edition
A 31-year-old South African electrical engineer has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2019 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Neo Hutiri is the first South African to win the prestigious Africa Prize.
Hutiri and his team developed Pelebox, a smart locker system designed to dispense medicine to patients with chronic conditions. Pelebox is used at public healthcare facilities in South Africa, cutting down on long queues and easing pressure on the healthcare system.
The team win the first prize of £25,000. At an awards ceremony in Kampala, Uganda on 4 June 2019, four finalists from across sub-Saharan Africa delivered presentations, before Africa Prize judges and a live audience voted for the most promising engineering innovation.
