RICH Hub Call for African Climate AI Innovators 2026 – YOA

Deadline: On Rolling Basis

The Research & Innovation for Climate (RICH) Hub is inviting African local weather AI innovators, researchers, startups, organizations, and answer builders to precise their curiosity in becoming a member of its rising pipeline of improvements advancing local weather resilience throughout Africa.

Climate change poses vital challenges to Africa’s sustainable improvement. While synthetic intelligence (AI) and information-pushed applied sciences supply new alternatives to strengthen local weather resilience, many promising improvements face boundaries to adoption, implementation, and scale.

Through this Expression of Interest, the RICH Hub seeks to establish promising local weather AI improvements which might be already being examined in actual-world settings and have the potential to ship significant influence in African contexts.

Benefits

• Selected improvements could entry technical and innovation help, teaching, analysis and piloting alternatives, ecosystem connections, information alternate, elevated visibility, scaling partnerships, and potential scaling grants of as much as USD $200,000. Support will rely upon eligibility, evaluation, obtainable assets, the innovation’s stage of improvement, and alignment with the Hub’s aims. Submitting an EOI doesn’t assure choice, help, or funding.

Eligibility

The Hub is trying for African-led or Africa-based improvements that:

• Address a clearly outlined local weather or environmental problem related to African communities, ecosystems, establishments, or economies.
• Use AI and/or information-pushed applied sciences as a significant part of the answer.
• Have reached the pilot stage or past and are being examined or used with their supposed communities, organizations, or finish customers.
• Have potential for additional improvement, adoption, or scale.

Application

The RICH Hub accepts Expressions of Interest on a rolling foundation. Innovators are inspired to submit their info when able to be thought-about for related alternatives as they come up.

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For extra info, go to RICH Hub Call for African Climate AI Innovators.