2025 WASCAL’s Innovative Ideas Competition for Sustainable Energy (WISE) – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: 31^th December 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 WASCAL’s Innovative Ideas Competition for Sustainable Energy (WISE). With the monetary assist of the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), WASCAL seeks to determine and assist groundbreaking short-term tasks and improvement & analysis concepts that reveal the potential of renewable power and inexperienced hydrogen to deal with the area’s power challenges whereas selling sustainable improvement.

Overall goal: This name goals to foster and assist the implementation of modern tasks and improvement & analysis concepts concerning renewable power (RE) and inexperienced hydrogen (GH2) in West Africa.

Specific Objectives

• Contribute to the electrical energy entry by the event of modern concepts within the RE and GH2 Sector
• Contribute to the event in rural and peri-urban areas via the mixing of renewable power and inexperienced hydrogen programs
• Develop modern options for addressing renewable power and inexperienced hydrogen points
• Develop modern options/approaches for renewable power and inexperienced hydrogen integration in our communities
• Impact positively the livelihood of the communities
• Eligibility standards

This name is addressed to

• younger West Africans. Any particular person or group of younger folks (Students, teachers, practitioners, scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs, associations…) from a West African nation (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo). Having a checking account is critical.
• associations/organisations, being legally registered in a West African Country and having a neighborhood checking account within the title of the affiliation/organisation
•  Proposal necessities

The challenge concepts/initiatives needs to be centered on the event of renewable power and inexperienced hydrogen with doable hyperlinks to the next non-exhaustive thematics:

• Renewable power options
• Green Hydrogen applied sciences
• Green mobility
• Energy entry and providers via renewables
• Biomass/waste restoration and power
• Energy-Water-Food Nexus Solutions
• Productive makes use of of renewable power in rural areas
• Thematic Trainings/ Conferences/Workshops/ Raising consciousness 
• Energy effectivity options
• Women’s and women’ empowerment within the renewable energies sector
• Renewable power in Socio-economic improvement and rising the added worth in rural areas
• Innovative marketing strategy fashions for power applied sciences and providers

The focus within the proposals will be on creating a product or course of, a service, a enterprise mannequin, or a scientific study and so forth.

The most quantity of grant allotted for every challenge is 20 000€ and the period mustn’t exceed 15 months

The classes of bills thought of as eligible and non-eligible are indicated under. Note that the eligible bills have to be based mostly on actual prices, based mostly on supporting paperwork. Expenses that don’t seem lifelike could also be rejected.

It is, due to this fact, within the applicant’s curiosity to supply a sensible and cost-effective price range in Euros based mostly on the forex alternate charges on the time of proposal submission.

Eligible bills concern the Direct prices, particularly the Project Implementation Costs:

• Operational bills like provides, utilities, and rents.
  • Travel and transportation prices
  • Procurement of products and providers crucial for challenge implementation.
  • Training and capacity-building actions instantly linked to the challenge.

They should even be affordable, justified, and compliant with sound monetary administration ideas. They have to be instantly verifiable and traceable to the actions being carried out.

Illegible bills concern:

• Administrative prices
  • Bonuses, Provisions, and Reserves
  • Duties, Taxes, and Charges
  • Return of Capital, Debts, and Debt Service Charges
  • In-Kind Contributions
  • Currency alternate losses
  • Purchases of land or buildings
  • Institutional overheads

The submission bundle consists of:

• The filed and signed application type
• Endorsement letter from the establishment/group of the applicant
• CV of the candidates
• Certificate of registration for the associations and organizations.
• Engagement with Project Participants and WASCAL: Proposals should reveal curiosity in WASCAL actions.
• Proposal Submission

The proposal needs to be a full model. It needs to be despatched through e mail to: [email protected]. Submission of paperwork have to be in PDF format. WISE proposals and associated doc are required to be in English or French. Submissions have to be acquired by 11:59 pm (GMT+00), 31^th December 2025.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WASCAL’s Innovative Ideas Competition for Sustainable Energy (WISE)