ACEP Ethanol Stove Innovation Hackathon 2025 (up to $15,000) – YOA

Deadline: July 27, 2025

Applications are open for the ACEP Ethanol Stove Innovation Hackathon 2025. The Ethanol Stove Innovation Hackathon is designed to encourage youth-led improvements in growing working prototypes of ethanol-based mostly cookstoves that aren’t solely environmentally sustainable but in addition meet the varied wants of households in Ghana and past. Participants will compete individually or in groups to design stoves which are environment friendly, reasonably priced, secure, and regionally adaptable.

The Ethanol Stove Innovation Hackathon will probably be structured as a two-part course of to establish and help progressive range ideas that mix environmental sustainability with technical and financial viability.

Benefits

• The profitable applicant(s) chosen will share in a complete grant funding pool of as much as $15,000, supposed to cowl the prices of supplies, fabrication, and testing required to develop a purposeful ethanol-based mostly range prototype and an in depth design information.

Eligibility

Open to younger Ghanaian innovators enthusiastic about clear power, product design, and sustainable growth. To make sure the competitors meets its purpose of nurturing rising expertise, the next standards will apply:

• Applicants have to be Ghanaian residents.
• Applicants have to be 35 years or youthful on the time of submission of the Expression of Interest.
• Target Participants
  • Tertiary-level college students, together with these enrolled in universities, technical universities, and TVET establishments.
  • Early-career professionals in power, product design, technical innovation, or associated sectors.
  • Young entrepreneurs and innovators with demonstrable curiosity or expertise in product growth, clear power applied sciences, or sustainable options.
• Applicants could apply as people or in groups. For staff submissions, the most variety of members is 5 (5). All staff members should meet the eligibility standards outlined above.
• While candidates from numerous educational {and professional} backgrounds are welcome, these with related expertise in range design, mechanical engineering, supplies science, environmental well being, or industrial design can have an added benefit.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Ethanol Stove Innovation Hackathon.