Published: 17 Jun 2024 277 views
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, is Africa’s biggest prize dedicated to engineering innovation. The Prize awards commercialisation support to African innovators developing scalable engineering solutions to local challenges. These innovations show the importance of engineering in improving quality of life and economic development.
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, is Africa’s biggest prize dedicated to engineering innovation.
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation was launched in March 2014 to stimulate, celebrate and reward innovation and entrepreneurship across sub-Saharan Africa.
Since then it has provided invaluable training, mentoring and communications support to 149 businesses across 23 countries. It also has an established alumni programme with 71% of Africa Prize alumni currently generating revenue. Our alumni have also raised $39 million in grants and equity.
Application Deadline | 15 Oct 2024 |
Value | £25,000 |
Type | Entrepreneurs |
Sponsor | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Gender | Men and Women |
The Africa Prize offers a unique benefits package for up to 16 shortlisted participants to help accelerate their business including:
Entrepreneurs are invited to apply with innovations from any engineering discipline that can provide scalable solutions to local challenges.
Applicants should be in the early stages of commercialising an engineering innovation that:
The innovation can be any new product, technology or service, based on research in any field of engineering, including:
We do not accept:
For more details,visit Royal Academy website