African Climate Innovation Challenge
Call for application: African Climate Innovation Challenge 2025
Description
Eligibility
Before applying, make sure your team is willing and able to commit to the requirements of ACIC.
- Be sure that your startup is registered in your country.
Your startup should be a team of at least 2 people. Applications from startups with less than 2 people will not be considered.
- Although not required, we specifically want to encourage female-led teams and teams with 40% – 50% female participants to apply.
All the members of your team must be of African descent and based in Africa.
Your startup must be focused around climate change mitigation and/or climate change adaptation.
- Your start-up should be atleast at the prototype or MVP stage. We will not consider projects still at the early or ideation stage
All members of your team must be between 18 and 35 years old.
All members of the team must have a good mastery of either English or French.
Think you have what it takes but not sure you check every box? Research shows that while men apply to roles when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women often only apply when they meet every requirement. If you are hesitating, apply!
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