The Orange Social Venture Prize 2025 in Africa and the Middle East ( €70,000 Euro Prize).
Application Deadline: May 18, 2025
Applications are actually open for the 2025 Orange Social Venture Prize. The Orange Social Venture Prize (OSVP) rewards innovation and social entrepreneurship for sustainable improvement in Africa and the Middle East. An plain catalyst for progress, technological innovation can solely attain its full potential whether it is supported by a strong, viable enterprise proposition that meets present and future social and environmental wants.
As nicely as encouraging innovation, Orange additionally rewards the constructive entrepreneurial spirit of dynamic start-ups inside the framework of its Social Venture Prize. Since 2011 this International Grand Prix competitors has welcomed start-ups from 17 nations in Africa and the Middle East. It identifies, rewards, and helps enterprise propositions that make a constructive social and environmental affect.
Requirements
Candidates should:
- Be 21 years and over
- Present a social entrepreneurship undertaking primarily based on NICT (New Information and Communication Technologies)
- The candidates should current a undertaking that includes a minimum of one among the 17 nations
Awards
International Grand Prix
1st prize: €25,000
2nd prize: €15,000
third prize: €10,000
International Women’s Prize
Winner: €20,000
OSVP winners obtain monetary assist and teaching in Orange Digital Centers to develop their enterprise internationally.
Timeline:
2025 National part
From March 11 to May 18 : Applications are open
From May 19 to August 31: Assessment and nomination of nationwide candidates
Each application shall be assessed in keeping with the guidelines of the nationwide competitions and as much as three winners shall be chosen in every nation.
2025 International part
From September 8 to 263
Assessment and nomination of worldwide candidates
October 2025 Ceremony
The finalists shall be evaluated by a grand jury of influential representatives from the African tech world, who will select the three total winners of the International Grand Prix. This jury will even be liable for selecting the winner of the International Women’s Prize.
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the Orange Social Venture Prize
The Orange Social Venture Prize 2025 in Africa and the Middle East ( €70,000 Euro Prize). – YOA
