Pierre Castel Prize 2025 for Africans (€35,000 financial endowment) – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Pierre Castel Prize 2025 for Africans. The Pierre Castel Fund – Acting with Africa and its companions Boissons du Cameroun, Brakina, Bracongo, Brasimba, Castel El Djazaïr, Solibra and Star Madagascar have launched the decision for purposes for the eighth version of the Pierre Castel Prize.

The Pierre Castel Prize is a pan-African competitors that helps younger abilities who’re driving sustainable improvement of their nations. Initially centered on the agriculture and agri-meals sectors, the Fund’s scope expanded in 2025 to incorporate all stakeholders and levers of transformation of meals methods, with a specific emphasis on innovation.

Prizes

The Pierre Castel Prize’s grants are a strategic lever for accelerating enterprise development and strengthening their impression on African meals methods.

• The Super Winner
  • €35,000 financial endowment
  • A mentoring program
  • A personalised teaching program
  • One 12 months of help as a PanAfrican ambassador for the Pierre Castel Prize
  • Business playing cards with the phrases “Super” Winner of the 2025 Pierre Castel Prize
  • Participation within the Residency program Entrepreneurial “African Builders”
  • Support for participation in worldwide commerce gala’s
  • Pan-African media highlight
  • Support for certification
• The Six Winners
  • €25,000 financial endowment
  • A mentoring program
  • A personalised teaching program
  • Business playing cards with the phrases ”Winner of the Prix Pierre Castel 2025’’
• For All The Winners
  • Coverage of membership charges to  the Patronage of the nation involved
  • Factory excursions
  • Connecting with potential companions and traders
  • Participation in Master Classes given by workers of subsidiaries on key themes: communication, gross sales, advertising, product high quality, stock administration and meals security
• The finalist entrepreneurs of this version could have entry to licensed e-studying entrepreneurial coaching with the International Trade Centre of Geneva (ITC)
• Upon their pre-choice, they be a part of the “African Builders” community, a dynamic neighborhood of entrepreneurs serving the event of the African continent.

Eligibility

You can take part within the Pierre Castel Prize 2025 if:

• You are an entrepreneur working in these sectors:
  • New applied sciences utilized to agriculture and the meals business Sustainable and
  • resilient strategies (precision agriculture, agroecology, bio conservation, water administration, useful resource restoration, renewable energies, and so forth.)
  • Digital options facilitating market entry, traceability and logistics
• You are between 18 and 45 years outdated
• Your enterprise legally exists and has been in enterprise for not less than one 12 months
• You have a improvement mission together with a measurable social, financial and environmental impression in your ecosystem
• You are a nationwide of one of many nations coated by this version and also you reside there. (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo)

Application

All paperwork listed beneath are obligatory. Incomplete purposes or purposes that don’t meet the indicated standards might be rejected by default. The application can solely be accomplished in French or English.

• A replica of your identification doc
• A CV
• A stability sheet or working account for the 2024 financial 12 months
• An official doc certifying the authorized existence of your small business
• A presentation file for your organization
  • Presentation of the mission chief(s) (background, ambition, motivation)
  • Presentation of the corporate (date of creation, authorized type, governance, variety of workers, provide, atmosphere, market, prospects, distribution, advertising, and so forth.
• An in depth presentation of the event mission to be supported (marketing strategy, worth creation and anticipated impression)

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Pierre Castel Prize.