NEF 10th Africa Energy Innovation Challenge 2025 (up to $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2025

Applications are open for the NEF 10th Africa Energy Innovation Challenge 2025. The 10th Africa Energy Innovation Challenge AEIC organized by Nigeria Energy Forum (NEF) mobilizes early-stage younger vitality entrepreneurs throughout Africa to develop a prototype/upscale a key gadget/tools for social enterprise, agri-enterprise, fintech options or vitality administration system utilizing native sources. The 10th AEIC hyperlinks younger individuals to high quality employment or entrepreneurship alternatives, and is targeted on advancing Energy Transition, Job Creation and Youth Employment initiatives.

Proposals are invited throughout 4 innovation tracks for early-stage vitality entrepreneurs from Africa, together with:

• Track 1: Powering Youth Employment & Jobs Creation.
• Track 2: Energizing Agribusiness & Social Development
• Track 3: Greening Local Manufacturing & Value Addition
• Track 4: CNG for Transport & Electrified Mobility

Prizes

The finalists and winners can be chosen by an impartial panel of trade consultants and skilled growth professionals from private and non-private sector establishments. It is anticipated that at the very least one winner per monitor can be awarded grant prizes with up to 20 shortlisted entries provided complimentary passes to absolutely take part within the 2025.

Winners of the competitors get the OPPORTUNITY to:

• Receive money prize grants of up to $10,000 to reveal or scale the proposed resolution;
• Pitch their proposed prototype mannequin on the 2025 Nigeria Energy Forum, utilizing a poster and quick video;
• Benefit from distinctive networking alternatives with different younger professionals in addition to a number of the most senior choice-makers in authorities, worldwide growth, academia, and the personal sector;
• Attend enterprise growth workshops, and obtain help from a devoted begin-up incubator.

Eligibility

• Young professionals between the ages of 18 and 35 years from Africa are invited to take part within the competitors throughout any of the 4 (4) innovation tracks above.
• Applications could also be submitted by a workforce of at the very least three individuals.
• Team composition MUST mirror gender stability, (comprising at the very least one girl and one man).
• Teams could also be fashioned throughout completely different colleges, establishments, firms, international locations and so forth. Individuals or groups might submit a number of purposes.

Evaluation Criteria

The first spherical of submissions can be evaluated utilizing the next attributes:

• Local Content: make the most of native sources, reveal use of native experience, various vitality providers or environment friendly options for powering agriculture, training, healthcare, industries and so forth.; and be vital sufficient to influence giant numbers of individuals, households and/or companies.
• Originality and creativity: current options which might be unique, artistic in areas which might be both underdeveloped or severely underdeveloped in analysis and literature.
• Commercial Viability: proposed prototype mannequin ought to be real looking, sensible fairly than simply principle, price environment friendly and description business preparations that deal with apparent roadblocks, utilizing a selected prototype mannequin.
• Youth Employment: concepts should hyperlink younger individuals to high quality employment or entrepreneurship alternative.

Application

Your proposed prototype mannequin submission should not exceed 1- aspect of an A4 web page and will embrace the next:

• Project Title – Your resolution (250 phrases)
• Innovation Track – Expected influence (50 phrases)
• Short summary (50 phrases)
• Design instruments and technique (50 phrases)
• Problem Statement (50 phrases)
• Estimated prices and timeline (50 phrases)

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For extra data, go to NEF AEIC.