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NIGERIA CLIMATE INNOVATION: GAIN/AGRI-BUSINESS INNOVATION CHALLENGE

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Application Deadline: 26th, July 2024

LOCATION: Nigeria

The Challenge aims to identify, develop, and scale innovative solutions to food safety challenges and a healthier food supply chain that can meet the needs of a growing population while also addressing the urgent challenges posed by climate change in Nigeria. 

ELIGIBILITY:

Women and Youths aged 18-35 years (Female applicants are strongly encouraged to apply)

Applicants must have agri-business innovations that can address and solve the Food Supply Chain challenges in Nigeria.

Shortlisted candidates should be willing to commit to all programme deliverables.

Finalists should be willing to test and replicate their solutions in the following states of Nigeria; Benue, Kaduna, Nasarawa and Ibadan

All Applicants must have businesses registered with  the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)

Previous beneficiaries are ineligible to apply

BENEFIT:

Shortlisted early-stage startups with a Minimum Viable Product  should expect to go through the following process from the programme; 

Pitch Readiness bootcamp

Technical Assistance Programme

Deal Day

Demo Day

Mentorship Community

₦ 20,000,000 EQUITY-FREE GRANT

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DAAD MASTER OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS (MIDE)

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Application Deadline: 31 August, 2024

LOCATION: Germany

HTW Berlin, the largest university of applied sciences in Berlin, offers an 18-month full-time Master’s degree programme in “International and Development Economics” (MIDE), taught entirely in English. Designed for students from developing and transitional countries as well as from Germany and other developed countries with a special interest in the economic challenges facing “third world” countries, the programme prepares students to work in areas related to global economic affairs and development.

ELIGIBILITY:

Bachelor’s degree*

Proficiency in English

The first degree must be equivalent to a three-year German Bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS). It is highly recommended that applicants get in touch with the MIDE office (mide@htw-berlin.de) to find out whether the degree from a foreign country is equivalent.

Applicants with three years of study (180 ECTS) or the equivalent either must study an additional 30 ECTS at the university or prove that they have completed at least one year’s professional employment or training since graduating. Applicants with an equivalent of three and a half or more years (210 ECTS) of study do not need to prove professional experience or take additional modules.

Applicants for a DAAD scholarship must come from a developing country and have at least two years of professional experience since graduation, but should not have graduated more than six years ago.

BENEFIT:
Approx. 900 to 1,000 EUR monthly.

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