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FUTURE OF LEARNING MASTERCARD FOUNDATION EDTECH STARTUP FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Application Deadline: February 17, 2024

LOCATION: Nigeria

The program provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with a network of experienced professionals with the same goal: to drive innovation in the edtech sector. Hands-on mentorship and resources will be provided to help you get your startup to the next level. Interested innovators are to apply below. In this stage, the Edtech solutions will be assessed on the following criteria: Problem/Solution Fit, Founder Potential, Business Model Fit, and Traction.

ELIGIBILITY:

Startups must be Africa focused and incorporated in Nigeria. They should be building solutions that address challenges across K-12, tertiary education and vocational skills training.

Your Edtech Solution must posses these two qualities:

EdTech Solution Based: Must have verifiable users aligned with our accelerator’s focus: education access, student learning, school management, and teacher/trainer effectiveness.

Inclusive Teams: Applicants should have a balanced team, passionate about education. Female founders of EdTech solution companies are strongly encouraged to apply

BENEFIT:

Startups that make it into our accelerator programme enjoy the following benefits:

Equity Free Funding: Qualified startups are entitled to $100k in equity free funding over the course of the accelerator programme.

Support & Mentoring: Startups can tap into our multidisciplinary experts for design, product, and tech optimization.

Investor Network: Startups, through this programme would be exposed to investors to help scale their products

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JOHNS HOPKINS HEALTHCARE DESIGN COMPETITION

Application Deadline: February 12, 2024, 11:59 PM EST

LOCATION: USA

The 2024 John Hopkins Healthcare Design competition is open to any student-led team that has designed a health related solutions. All countries, all academic field are encouraged to apply.

ELIGIBILITY:

Project must be focused on a healthcare application in either of the 4 tracks: Competition Tracks:

Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems

Global Health/ Humanitarian Design

Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health

Post-Surgical Infection Management

Designs of Solutions for Advanced Health Systems

Global Health/ Humanitarian Design

Healthcare Apps/ Digital Health

Post-Surgical Infection Management

Project must have been started after January 1st, 2022

Project must be driven by full-time students

Postdoc research projects are ineligible.

Projects that have utilized significant funding (>$100K) are ineligible.

Projects that are not run by full-time students are ineligible. For example, projects run by startup companies or faculty are ineligible.

Eligible full-time students include those working towards undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and professional degrees (MBA, MD, etc.).

Project teams should comprise of more than one full-time student.

Applicants can submit multiple unique projects

If you have any questions regarding your team’s eligibility, please contact Aditya Polsani at apolsan1@jhu.edu or Kunal Parikh at ksp@jhu.edu.

BENEFIT:

For each track:

1st Prize: $5,000

2nd Prize: $3,000

3rd Prize: $1,000

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