{"id":3709,"date":"2023-05-25T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2023-05-25T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:30:47","slug":"premio-da-royal-academy-of-engineering-africa-para-inovacao-em-engenharia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/bolsas-e-fundos\/premio-da-royal-academy-of-engineering-africa-para-inovacao-em-engenharia\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Award for Engineering Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Academy of Engineering has opened applications for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2024, as the programme approaches its 10th anniversary.<sup>aesthesia<\/sup>&nbsp;Anniversary. The Africa Prize supports ambitious and innovative entrepreneurs who develop local and scalable solutions to the continent's daily challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Africa Prize will welcome its tenth class in November 2023. Since 2014, the programme has supported more than 130 entrepreneurs in 20 African countries with a rigorous business training programme and lifelong support through the Africa Prize alumni network. More than 70% of the alumni's engineering and technology businesses now generate revenue. Between them, Africa Prize alumni have raised more than US$ 14 million in donations and equity funding and created more than 3,600 jobs, almost half of them for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VALUE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The winner of the Africa Prize receives \u00a325,000 and three runners-up receive \u00a310,000 each.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Up to 16 shortlisted candidates receive an exclusive package of support over eight months to help them accelerate their business, including comprehensive and personalised business coaching, industry-specific engineering mentoring, communications support, presentation opportunities and access to the Academy's network of experienced and high-profile engineers and business experts in the UK and across Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELIGIBILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>African entrepreneurs from all engineering disciplines with an innovation that can provide scalable solutions to local challenges are invited to take part in the tenth round of the Africa Prize.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications are now open to individuals or small teams living and working in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The innovations presented must have a social, economic or environmental benefit and must be at an early stage of development, with the potential for scaling up and commercialisation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The prize is open to hardware and software innovations, as well as innovative processes and systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DEADLINE:&nbsp;<\/strong>25th July 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To register and for more information<a href=\"https:\/\/raeng.org.uk\/news\/a-decade-of-celebrating-african-engineering-applications-open-for-the-2024-africa-prize-for-engineering-innovation\">&nbsp;go here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Academy of Engineering abriu as inscri\u00e7\u00f5es para o Pr\u00eamio \u00c1frica de Inova\u00e7\u00e3o em Engenharia 2024, \u00e0 medida que o programa se aproxima de seus 10\u00e9simo&nbsp;anivers\u00e1rio. O Pr\u00eamio \u00c1frica apoia empreendedores ambiciosos e inovadores que desenvolvem solu\u00e7\u00f5es locais e escal\u00e1veis para os desafios di\u00e1rios no continente. O Pr\u00e9mio \u00c1frica dar\u00e1 as boas-vindas \u00e0 sua [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bolsas-e-fundos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wecare.center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Captura-da-Web_25-5-2023_92921_opportunities.youthhubafrica.org_.jpeg?fit=1031%2C744&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecare.center\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}