Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge 2025 (up to $10 000) – YOA

Deadline: August 29, 2025

Applications are open for the Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge 2025. The Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge is an annual open innovation problem geared toward sourcing novel house applied sciences since 2016. This problem seeks to drive entrepreneurial exercise within the African house business and promote consciousness of the worth of earth remark information throughout the continent and in a number of sectors similar to water and meals safety, mining, logistics, insurance coverage, and lots of extra.

Earth remark gathers details about the planet’s bodily, chemical, and organic methods by way of distant-sensing applied sciences. This info can then be used to monitor modifications in pure and synthetic environments.

The 2025 thematic areas embrace: 

• Climate change; Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction; 
• Natural Resource Monitoring; Sustainable Urban/Rural improvement;
• Healthcare. 

Prizes

There are numerous prizes that can be up are for grabs for the Challenge finalists, together with:

• Cash prizes within the type of a grant of up to $10 000 in whole (to be distributed throughout high three winners).
• 4-month on-line incubation and digital mentorship.
• Up to $ 10 000 price of Amazon Web Services Activate credit (to be distributed throughout all three winners).
• Technical help can be out there to the Challenge members from the main EOD specialising organisations.
• 3 months entry to Maxar Imagery Portal Securewatch; Access to Planet Labs information & imagery for R&D use; Access to ESRI pattern information, apps, notebooks, deep studying fashions.
• Intellectual property-associated help providers from mental property attorneys, Von Seidels.
• Various packages of subscriptions to ArcGIS, person convention cross and ESRI Imagery Summit.
• Feature in interviews and editorials by way of chosen media channels.

Eligibility

• Open to companies throughout the African continent;
• All submissions should display a transparent application of EOD;
• Be early-stage funding/angel investor prepared companies.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to AEO Challenge.