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Looking for business innovation challenge or innovation challenges for students to showcase your idea? This page contains innovation competition and startup challenges. Some of them are global innovation challenge. Join the contest now!
The 8th Africa Energy Innovation Challenge organized by NEF challenges early-stage energy entrepreneurs across Africa to collaborate with local research institutions or industries to develop a prototype model of a key device/equipment for a social energy enterprise, agri-business
Published: 04 Aug 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 31 Aug 2023
The Changemakers Innovation Challenge is conceived by ACT Foundation as a response to the impressive work of community nonprofits, businesses and social enterprises in Africa who are leveraging technology/ digital tools to create social change in their communities. Research shows that most nonp
Published: 13 Jul 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 31 Jul 2023
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Over 828 million people - more than one in ten of the world's population - still go to bed hungry each night. The number of people facing acute food insecurity has reached a record high of 345 million, up from 135 million in 2019. Meanwhile, the cost of delivering food assistance has reached unp
Published: 10 Jul 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 19 Jul 2023
ICAN-BOI, in collaboration with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and the Bank of Industry, will gather a new generation of innovative thinkers from across the tech industry to tackle some of the most pressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), tagged iHack4SDG Challenge 2023.
Published: 04 May 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 14 May 2023
Score big and make a difference - Join our challenge to build Paris Saint Germain’s sustainable & collaborative platform to engage our fans and bring football to every corner of Africa. Paris Saint Germain is calling for innovative companies and entrepreneurs to create the ne
Published: 14 Apr 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 Apr 2023
Sanofi is calling for innovative startups and entrepreneurs poised with the mission of improving disease treatments delivery & access to care in Africa. Your startup has the power to push the boundaries and build solutions beyond medicines while overcoming the bottlenecks in access to health car
Published: 13 Apr 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 30 Apr 2023
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The 5th and 2022 Youth in Tourism Innovation Summit & Challenge will be hosted by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Namibia. The key focus areas will include but not limited to youth entrepreneurship, and students’ immersion in innovation, small enterprise development
Published: 07 Feb 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 28 Feb 2023
Applications are now open for the Nigeria Media Innovation Program’s (NAMIP’s) Sustainability Challenge. Winners will be awarded up to $50,000 for their project and join NAMIP’s innovation and capacity building program that extends up till 2024. NAMIP is implemented by Media Dev
Published: 03 Feb 2023 Type: Entrepreneurs Study in: Nigeria Deadline: 28 Feb 2023
Are you an entrepreneur with innovative ideas and solutions to build stronger and more sustainable food systems? Are you addressing hunger and galvanizing international cooperation on food security? Then apply for the World Food Program Innovation Challenge. The WFP Innovation Challenge aims
Published: 26 Oct 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 03 Nov 2022
The social innovation challenge is designed to help young leaders and founders to explore, start and grow their ideas to solve the social or environmental issues that matter to them most. Social Shifters are next generation leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs with fresh solutions to today&
Published: 22 Sep 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 09 Nov 2022
Applications are open for the Caritas Acholi Agribusiness Innovation Challenge 2022. The Acholi Agribusiness Innovation Challenge aims to promote sustainable agriculture, curb malnutrition, promote food security and improve farmers’ livelihoods. In addition, the challenge seeks to identif
Published: 20 Sep 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 09 Oct 2022
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Applications open for Africa Youth in Trade Innovation Challenge by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held in Partnership with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). This initiative prioritizes Entrepreneurship, Expo
Published: 06 Sep 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 09 Sep 2022
You are young, African, and want to work with like-minded people committed to making a difference from the grassroots level up? This ideathon is open to students, professionals, community activists, social entrepreneurs, changemakers, and all other interested folks in Africa. Designed as a virtua
Published: 30 Aug 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 01 Nov 2022
YOTA (Youth Opportunity & Transformation in Africa) is currently accepting applications from African talented young innovators for its 2022 Youth Innovation Challenge. The goal of the Challenge is to promote and nurture catalytic youth-led solutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: 27 Jul 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 29 Jul 2022
The United Nations Development Programme Sub-Regional Hub for West and Central Africa (UNDP WACA) has launched this Challenge calling for young entrepreneurs and innovators with impactful solutions in West and Central Africa. The UNDP WACA Youth Innovation Challenge is an initiative designed to i
Published: 26 Jul 2022 Type: College School Deadline: 02 Sep 2022
The THRIVE Global Impact Challenge is a global search for the most innovative startups who are advancing a more sustainable future for agriculture. Aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Impact Challenge is focused on three key themes each one central to supporting
Published: 26 Jul 2022 Type: Entrepreneurs Deadline: 26 Aug 2022
The Challenge aims to foster and nurture catalytic youth-led solutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Challenge forms part of activities under the Africa Youth Partnership to Advocate an Equitable Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic. YOTA (Youth Opportunity & Transformation in Afri
Published: 18 Jul 2022 Type: College School Deadline: 29 Jul 2022
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The GoogleDotorg Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation commits $30M to fund big bet projects that accelerate technological advances in climate information and action. Building off of Google.org’s Impact Challenge on Climate in 2020, they are looking for solutions that expand our
Published: 16 Jul 2022 Type: College School Deadline: 29 Jul 2022
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