Deadline: 17 April 2015
The Smart Villages is seeking entrants for Energy Innovation Challenge 2015. This Energy Innovation Challenge seeks to find and support new entrants into the entrepreneurial space who have ideas for businesses to improve energy access in off-grid communities.
The challenge includes 8-week business development training with CDI in Dar es Salaam. Winner will receive 90% of seed capital to progress their project. Winners will receive remaining 10% of prize money pending submission of a report on how their efforts progressed over the year since winning the award and presenting to the 2016 CDI entrepreneurship participants.
The Smart Villages Initiative aims to provide policy makers, donors and development agencies concerned with rural energy access with new insights on the real barriers to energy access in villages in developing countries – technological, financial, social and political – and how they can be overcome.
Eligibility Information
- Teams with at least one current student or recent graduate from an East African University or higher learning institution are eligible.
- Individuals and teams of up to three people may apply for this competition.
- The individual or at least one member of the team must be a current student or recent graduate (within two years) at an East African university or higher learning institution.
- Students studying science, engineering, business, economics, finance, marketing or others areas are invited to apply.
Application Process
An individual or a team may submit different applications for different ideas, but only one application per team or individual will be able to progress to the development phase. Applicants are requested to fill and submit online application form.
For more information, visit EIC.
