AfDB Fashionomics Africa Program 2024 | $6000 Cash Prize
The AfDB Fashionomics Africa Program is offering $6,000 total in cash prizes, mentoring, new branding packages, and other support for winning African designers of sustainable and circular fashion.
The program is the African Development Bank Fashionomics Africa initiative’s third online competition for designers from the African continent.
Eligibility Criteria:
The AfDB Fashionomics Africa Incubator and Accelerator Program targets textile, apparel, and accessories entrepreneurs from Africa, aged 18 years or older, who have launched fashion businesses (up to a maximum of 50 employees), and whose sustainable designs have been produced within the last five years.
Qualifying applicants will submit pictures of their products, detail their sustainable business model, and explain how their startup is environmentally friendly and innovative.
Eligibility Criteria:
- If you have more than 3 years of experience managing your business (registered or not), please select the Accelerator Program.
- If you have 0 to 3 years of experience managing your business (registered or not), please select the Incubator Program.
Benefits:
- The designer or design team submitting the “best sustainable design” will win $3,000 along with other prizes.
- Two other competition finalists will take home $1,500 each, plus other support.
How to Apply?
- To learn more about the Fashionomics Africa online competition or to submit an entry below,
- Applications must be submitted either in English, Portuguese, Arabic or French.
- Failure to comply with these requirements will lead to the rejection of the application.
- French: https://bit.ly/FashionomicsCFAFrench
- Arabic: https://bit.ly/FashionomicsCFAArabic…
- Portuguese: https://bit.ly/FashionomicsCFAPortuguese…
- English: https://bit.ly/FashionomicsCFA
Deadline: October 20, 2024
