Competitions
2022/2023 African Development Bank AgriPitch Competition
The aim of the 2022 AgriPitch Competition is to support agripreneurs by focusing on building the bankability of their businesses and ensuring that they are pitch ready for potential investors. Entrepreneurs will be coached and mentored in an interactive and tailored two-week training to review, prepare and present their businesses for capital raising from investors. […]
2022/2023 ILO Global Media Competition on Labour Migration
Its aim is to recognize fair and balanced reports that contribute to the elimination of xenophobia and discrimination against migrant workers. Recognizing and promoting ethical and quality reporting is increasingly significant, as media can promote a toxic public narrative reinforcing prejudice, intolerance and stigmatization against migrant workers and their families. The Global Media Competition contributes […]
How To Apply for Girls in Tech Startup Challenge 2022
The Girls in Tech Startup Challenge has helped many female founders access funding, mentorship, and media exposure over the last 8 years. And perhaps more importantly – it’s given them the nudge they needed to properly ideate, map out, and prepare their product for launch to market! If you’re sitting on a brilliant idea, then […]
Applications Open for Merge Data Challenge 2022 (Up to $30,000)
The Merge is coming, providing a more secure and sustainable home for Ethereum—as well as more data, lots and lots of data. And the Ethereum community needs your help to make sense of it all. What new visualizations help provide insight into proof-of-stake Ethereum? How do the consensus layer and execution layer interact? Are there […]
Youth Design Challenge 2023 At Biomimicry Institute
The Youth Design Challenge (YDC) is a free, hands-on, project-based learning experience that provides classroom and informal educators with a new framework to introduce biomimicry and an interdisciplinary approach to science and environmental literacy. Working in teams with an adult coach, students explore the wonders of the natural world and apply what they learn to […]
Call for Applications: UN IOM iDiaspora Photo Contest 2022
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and IBER-RUTAS – Programme that aims to contribute to the promotion of cultural diversity in Ibero-America for the protection of migrants’ rights from an intercultural perspective – invite professional and amateurs photographers to participate in the iDiaspora Photo Contest. Through this activity, the IOM and IBER-RUTAS seek to highlight […]
APPLY: KIC Ghana Impact Entrepreneurship Competition 2022
The Impact Entrepreneurship Competition is a competition designed for entrepreneurs and early-stage companies generating positive impact in Ghana’s economic, social and/or environmental sectors, contributing to sustainable development in the region. Its mission is to recognize and support innovative and successful businesses making a positive impact on society in Ghana, strengthening the impact ecosystem in the […]
APPLY: THRIVE/SHELL Climate-Smart Agriculture Challenge 2022
The THRIVE/Shell Climate-Smart Agriculture Challenge aims to identify and support top start-up and scale-up innovators who are driving the global transformation to climate-smart agriculture practices. The challenge aligns with Shell’s Powering Progress strategy and the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. The key goal of the challenge is to identify and promote innovations that help farmers to: […]
Application Opens for Africa Earth Observation Challenge 2022
The Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge is an annual open innovation challenge aimed at sourcing novel space technologies since 2016. This challenge seeks to drive entrepreneurial activity in the African space industry and promote awareness of the value of earth observation data across the continent and in multiple sectors such as water and food security, […]
Application Opens for She Shapes Biodiversity Photo Contest 2022
She Shapes Biodiversity is a photo contest that aims to celebrate women’s contributions to the environment and seeks to recognize and amplify the roles and contributions of women that can pave the way for the implementation of a gender-responsive post-2020 global biodiversity framework. This contest runs prior to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, also the […]