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MASTERCARD FOUNDATION AGROHACK CHALLENGE: EMPOWERING YOUNG NIGERIAN AGROPRENUERS

Application Deadline: Monday, September 25th, 2023

LOCATION: Nigeria

AgroHack Challenge is seeking innovative ideas across the agriculture industry’s value chain. These ideas will be accelerated to create new opportunities for many young Nigerians.

ELIGIBILITY:

Must be between 18 – 35 age

Must have a team (minimum of 2 )

Have an innovative or scalable business idea or model in the agricultural sector (ranging anywhere from farm to fork)

Transform a community, a nation, a region, or have a global impact

Have a minimum viable product

Have a business model with a clear customer segment

Have any market traction

BENEFIT:

Participants also stand a chance to win up to one million naira

Accelerator programme

5 days Enterprise boot camp

Intense mentorship from a pool of international mentors

Business support services

Access to investors

Access potential clients

New market opportunities

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ENERGY GLOBE AWARD

Application Deadline: 31 December, 2023

LOCATION: Austria

The objective of the ENERGY GLOBE Award is to present successful sustainable projects to a global audience and to demonstrate that for most of our environmental problems feasible solutions are already available.

ELIGIBILITY:

Any company, organization (i.e. NGO, club, school, university), individual or public authority that contributes to climate change and other environmental issues.

Thet award projects in the categories: Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Youth. The are looking for projects that provide solutions to air, soil and water pollution, apply renewables and increase energy efficiency, demonstrate sustainable use of our planet’s resources, and contribute to the environmental education. No project is too big or too small!

An applicant can submit more than one project. A project can be submitted in any country, regardless of whether we have awarded a project in this country before.

BENEFITS:

Recognition from international environmental experts

Media exposure of your efforts to save the world

Connections to prominent environmental activists

Setting an example to others / Being a role model to others

Free of charge participation

2000 € prize for each international Energy Globe World Award winner

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