Info For You Lot Africa Prize For Applied Scientific Discipline Excogitation For Students Too Engineers Inwards Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Course(s) Offered: Engineering (innovators, entrepreneurs)
Course Level: Students, Engineers (Individuals, Groups)
Provider: Royal Academy of Engineering
Country to Work in: Africa

Scholarship Description
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation has entered its tertiary yr too volition i time again this yr await for engineers, or engineering students, inwards ALL disciplines (civil, electrical, biomedical, mechanical, IT/computer/software, oi/gas/mining, agricultural etc.) who are innovating solutions to everyday problems.

The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation aims to possess too vantage engineering entrepreneurship inwards sub-Saharan Africa. The Africa Prize volition encourage ambitious too talented sub-Saharan African engineers from all disciplines to use their skills to develop scalable solutions to local challenges, highlighting the importance of engineering equally an enabler of improved lineament of life too economical development.

The Africa Prize is opened upward for ambitious too talented sub-Saharan African engineers to demonstrate innovative too engineering entrepreneurship skills. The overall winner volition have £25,000 (or local currency equivalent). Runners-up volition equally good have a cash prize.

Eligibility
To hold upward eligible:

• Applicants must hold upward individuals or groups of no to a greater extent than than 3 people.
• Individual applicants must hold upward citizens of a province inside sub-Saharan Africa too currently reside there. For teams of ii or three, the Pb applicant must hold upward a citizen of a province inside sub-Saharan Africa too currently reside there.
• Applicants must accept an engineering excogitation too furnish a missive of the alphabet of back upward from a academy of query institution.
• Industrial researchers too establishments are non eligible.
• The applicant’s excogitation tin hold upward whatever novel product, engineering or service, based on query inwards engineering defined inwards its broadest feel to embrace a broad arrive at of fields, including: agricultural technology, biotechnology, chemic engineering, civil engineering, estimator science, pattern engineering, electrical too electronic engineering, ICT, materials science, mechanical engineering, too medical engineering. If y'all are inwards whatever uncertainty that your expanse of expertise would hold upward considered engineering thus delight contact the Academy to hash out your application.
• Applicants should accept achieved the evolution of, too hold upward inwards the early on stages of commercialising, an engineering excogitation that:
  
  1. ​will convey social and/or environmental benefits to country/countries inwards sub-Saharan Africa;
  2. has strong potential to hold upward replicated too scaled up;
  3. is accompanied past times an ambitious simply realistic concern project design which has strong commercial viability.

Eligible groups
Citizens of Sub-Saharan African countries.

For the purposes of the competition, sub-Saharan countries include:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome too Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Republic of Zambia too Zimbabwe.

Participating Institutions
Individual and/or teams of 2 or 3 people inwards Africa

Fields of innovation
All engineering disciplines

Number of awards
Not specified past times sponsors

Sponsorship duration
Crucial commercialisation back upward is awarded to a shortlist of innovative applicants, through a 6 calendar month menses of preparation too mentoring.

Scholarship benefits
Following the menses of mentorship, finalists volition hold upward invited to acquaint at an resultant held inwards Africa too a winner volition hold upward selected to have £25,000 along amongst runners-up, who volition each hold upward awarded £10,000

Method of Application
All applications must hold upward submitted via the online grants system, applicants should ensure they read the guidance notes earlier submitting their application. You must kickoff register an account, which y'all volition hold upward prompted to create on the Online grants system.

It is of import to read through the Guidance notes - Africa Prize, too equally good to view the official website (link to it is below) for consummate data too access to the Online grants system.

DEADLINES:
The 2018/2019 Africa Prize opened upward nineteen March 2018, too closed for applications at midnight on 23 July 2018.

PLEASE NOTE:
The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation is an first of the Royal Academy of Engineering. It is generously supported past times the Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund, The Foreign too Commonwealth Office, Consolidated Contractors Company, ConocoPhillips, too the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is the UK’s national academy of engineering. The Academy brings together the UK's leading engineers, from across all engineering sectors, to advance too promote excellence inwards engineering.

The Academy was founded inwards June 1976 equally the Fellowship of Engineering amongst back upward from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the kickoff Senior Fellow and, equally of 2016, remains so. The Fellowship was incorporated too granted a Royal Charter on 17 May 1983 too became the Royal Academy of Engineering on sixteen March 1992.

Application Deadline: 23 July 2018
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)

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