Call for Application: African Climate Innovation Challenge 2025 ($10,000 Prize)

Empowering young Africans to create impact in their local communities by solving sustainability challenges through entrepreneurship and innovation.

Helping African communities build resilience and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change locally
Empowering youth and local communities in Africa by providing skills, and tools and knowledge they need to create local impact..
Integrational knowledge sharing: bringing together local traditional practices with scientific or modern methodologies.
Addressing and solving climate challenges through entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa.
Addressing and solving climate challenges through entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa.

Before applying, make sure your team is willing and able to commit to the requirements of ACIC.
Your startup should be a team of at least 2 people. Applications from startups with less than 2 people will not be considered.
Although not required, we specifically want to encourage female-led teams and teams with 40% – 50% female participants to apply.
All the members of your team must be of African descent and based in Africa.
Your startup must be focused around climate change mitigation and/or climate change adaptation.
Your start-up should be atleast at the prototype or MVP stage. We will not consider projects still at the early or ideation stage
All members of your team must be between 18 and 35 years old.
All members of the team must have a good mastery of either English or French

Up to USD 10,000 in prize money for winning startups to directly implement their innovative start-up ideas in their communities.
Tailor-made curriculum for all participants to further develop their startups.
Pitch your startup and solutions at a gathering of major climate stakeholders and an international audience.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY