The French Agency for Development (AFD) Digital Energy Challenge 2025 for African Start-ups

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Application Deadline: 16^th May 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 French Agency for Development (AFD) Digital Energy Challenge. The purpose of the Digital Energy Challenge is to assist the event of modern options for elevated vitality entry, to facilitate the combination of renewable energies and to enhance vitality operators’ efficiency.

Since the launch in 2020, the Challenge, supported by the European Union, AFD and ADEME, has boosted greater than 30 Start-up and Energy Utility initiatives. Following this success, the Challenge is being carried out for an extra yr in 2025.

Requirements

The 2025 Call for Projects targets initiatives for implementation in Africa and owned by:

Start-ups within the pre-seed part or with early-stage actions. NGOs can apply beneath the Start-up class (see more details on the eligibility criteria for Start-ups).

Innovative technology or service providers who’ve already developed a digital resolution to be examined (see more details on the eligibility criteria for technology providers)

What actions are included?

Projects will need to have a core component of digital expertise (telecom, laptop or cloud-based). They have to be modern, both intrinsically or in relation to the native market or nation.

For the Start-ups Challenge solely, initiatives have to be native with undertaking administration actions within the nation the place the undertaking is predicated.

For the Start-ups Challenge, the undertaking scope should adress considered one of three themes:

• Universal electrical energy entry and mini-grids
• Efficient grid administration
• Resilience and decarbonization of energy methods

Benefits

Application Timeline:

• 10^th March 2025: Launch of the Call for Projects
• 16^th May 2025 – 23h59 CET: Deadline for submission of purposes

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the French Agency for Development (AFD) Digital Energy Challenge