Call for Submissions: African Union Innovating Education in Africa 2025 (up to $50,000) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Proposals are invited for the African Union Innovating Education in Africa 2025. The AU Innovating Education in Africa Call invites innovators to suggest sensible schooling improvements with the potential for sustainability, scalability and replication on a large scale. They are wanting to mobilize continental schooling innovators to rethink options that may assist tackle schooling and expertise improvement challenges in Africa.

They goal to create change by:

• Incentivizing innovators to determine main schooling and expertise improvement challenges in Africa;
• Sourcing revolutionary concepts and options to these challenges for adoption replication and scale-up; and
• Encouraging innovation partnerships involving schooling and coaching establishments, governments, and different key stakeholders.

Benefits

Successful candidates will profit from a number of of the next:

• Three winners will obtain grants of up to $50,000 USD to strengthen the interoperability of improvements with public schooling techniques whereas accumulating proof on effectiveness.
• Promotion of Innovation to AU Member States and Development Partners, together with publication in the Africa Education Innovations Handbook 2025.
• Certificate of recognition from the Commissioner of Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation of the African Union.

Eligibility

Applications might be accepted from residents of AU Member States main a company that meets the next standards.

• Successfully implementing an schooling innovation in one or extra AU Member States with verifiable outcomes. An schooling innovation refers to a product or service being provided by a company which makes use of a comparatively distinct strategy—with respect to the African context—in addressing challenges in the schooling system.
• Legally registered and licensed to function in an AU Member State.
• Directly accountable for the implementation and administration of the innovation, i.e., not performing as an middleman.

Application

Submissions must be made on-line in English or French, with the next info.

• Brief assertion of the problem being addressed (100 phrases).
• Description of the innovation, particularly the way it features, the implementation strategy, and income mannequin (lower than 500 phrases).
• Report of the efficiency and outcomes of the innovation (much less than 500 phrases).
• Documentation of enterprise registration and license of operation.

Note that a company could submit no multiple innovation; failure to comply will lead to disqualification. Recipients of grants below the IEA program in the previous should not eligible to apply.

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For extra info, go to Innovating Education in Africa.