Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2026 in Sub-Saharan Africa (Fully-Funded training in the UK plus £50,000 Prize)

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Application Deadline: 23 September 2025, 4pm UTC+1

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, based by the Royal Academy of Engineering, is Africa’s greatest prize devoted to engineering innovation. The Prize awards commercialisation assist to African innovators growing scalable engineering options to native challenges. These improvements present the significance of engineering in enhancing high quality of life and financial growth.

Applicant necessities 

• Applicants can apply as a person or on behalf of a workforce. 

• The applicant have to be a citizen of a rustic in sub-Saharan Africa*. For groups of two or extra, the lead applicant (the particular person taking part in training) have to be a citizen of a rustic in sub-Saharan Africa*. 

• The  applicant have to be ordinarily primarily based in sub-Saharan Africa*; if primarily based abroad, this have to be short-term for research or in any other case. 

• The applicant have to be over the age of 18 when purposes shut on 23 September 2025. There isn’t any higher age restrict. 

• The applicant should have a excessive degree of English proficiency, which is able to enable them to totally take part in the complete programme. The application have to be written in English. 

• The applicant can’t be an alumni of the Africa Prize or part of the similar workforce, enterprise or innovation that has been via the Prize. 

• Industrial researchers and institutions aren’t eligible. 

• Alumni of the Academy’s Advance programme or alumni of the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship (LIF) programme who participated after June 2024 aren’t eligible to apply to the Africa Prize. LIF alumni who participated in the LIF programme earlier than June 2024 could also be eligible if they’ll proof via their application why participation in the Africa Prize is important and/or will add worth to them and their enterprise.  

Benefits

The Africa Prize gives a novel advantages bundle for as much as 16 shortlisted members to assist speed up their enterprise together with: 

• Eight month tailor-made training programme.
• Two fully-funded training weeks: one in the UK and one in a serious African metropolis.
• Access to enterprise and technical experience and sector-specific engineering mentoring.
• Bespoke press protection and communications assist.
• Access to the Academy’s community of high-profile engineers and enterprise consultants in the UK and Africa.
• The alternative for finalists to current their innovation to a judging panel at the Africa Prize showcase occasion.
• Prize cash of as much as £50,000.

How to Apply

Stage one

Tell us about your self and your innovation so we are able to assess should you and your innovation are appropriate for our programme. It will take about 90 minutes to finish. This stage focuses in your technical innovation, workforce particulars, and fundamental eligibility to assist us perceive your innovation.

Eligible purposes are reviewed by two technical consultants from the Academy’s community who assess the technological viability and credibility of your engineering resolution. A longlist of candidates with the highest scores will probably be invited to finish stage two at the finish of October 2025.

Stage two

This is extra detailed, overlaying your marketing strategy, market evaluation, monetary projections and commercialisation technique. Only long-listed candidates will probably be invited to finish their Stage 2 purposes at the finish of October 2025, which will probably be reviewed by our panel of professional judges.

If profitable you may be shortlisted for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and chosen to hitch our eight-month programme.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation