RUFORUM is seeking applications for its 2021 Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC) to catalyze entrepreneurship through the promotion of business innovation and the provision of start-up funds to young entrepreneurs with creative business ideas and innovations among young Africans.
Sponsoring Agency: RUFORUM
Type of Fund: Challenges, Competitions or Prizes
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/31/2021
Size of the Fund: Not Available
RUFORUM is seeking applications for its 2021 Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC) to catalyze entrepreneurship through the promotion of business innovation and the provision of start-up funds to young entrepreneurs with creative business ideas and innovations among young Africans.
RUYAEC invites young African entrepreneurs and incubators (<35 years old) to compete for 20 prizes to present their innovations, their businesses and their business concepts and proposals.) The RUFORUM 2021 Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC), the general purpose of which is to catalyze entrepreneurship through the promotion of business innovation and the provision of start-up funds to young entrepreneurs with creative business ideas and innovations among young Africans.
Purpose
The RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition primary purpose is to promote business innovation through entrepreneurship and provide seed funding to young entrepreneurs with creative and innovative business ideas to be valorized and enhance and foster a spirit of entrepreneurship among African youth. The competition specifically seeks to:
• Provide young entrepreneurs with the opportunity to showcase their businesses and share their development as an inspiration to many young African potential entrepreneurs
• Bring collective action towards the provision of seed funding to young entrepreneurs through a transparent and competitive process.
• Provide a platform for young entrepreneurs to demonstrate their impact and pitch their business with investors and stakeholders through capacity building opportunity.
• Create a network of young entrepreneurs across Africa working together and sharing experiences that escalate youth contribution and job creation in Africa.
Target Group
The challenge will target young people between 16-34 years.
Remark: When you are registering there is a place for you to upload your business/enterprise logo which is not mandatory, if it does not work at time you can skip it and upload it later. After registering for you to apply you need to click on "calls" where you will see different calls and selected the one that are still active, click on it and it will take you directly to the online Application form. Kindly note that you will not be required to upload a word document as an application form but you need to fill the form online. For now, you cannot save the form, you are only required to fill the form once and submit it. f you are not ready, you can copy the question in Word, work offline and then paste the answers in the online application form and submit it.
More information at: https://ruforum.smehub.africa/calls/3
Eligible Countries:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
