APSA Challenge Science and Technology – Ethiopia 2018 for African young scientists & entrepreneurs (5,000 euros prize)

Application Deadline: July 31^th 2018

APSA Challenge Science and Technology – Ethiopia 2018: Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Development

A competition organized by the Association for the Promotion of Sciences in Africa (APSA). This competition aims at promoting research, innovations in science and technology (S&T), and entrepreneurship for sustainable development in Africa. It is aimed at African young scientists and young entrepreneurs.

The candidates will submit a project or a Prototype describing the characteristics of an innovative device they wish to propose as part of the Challenge. By device, it should be understood any technology providing a solution for sustainable development and environmental problems and that can be declined in the form of Clean Energy Production, Up/Down/Re-Cycling, Water Treatment, etc.

The APSA (Association for the Promotion of Sciences in Africa) is an association under the French law 1901 created in 2008, from a unique vision:

Africa needs Science and the world needs African Scientists.

APSA members include 4 Nobel Prizes and 4 Fields Medals but also more than a 30 young researchers.

The objectives of APSA are :

• Work for scientific training and support emerging researcher teams in Africa
• Assist in the development of high-level scientific research
• Influence the international scientific community to act in these directions
• Foster collaborations between African and European scientists, and between African scientist themselves
• Help research Professors from African universities who have set up, under difficult conditions, higher education attracting a growing mass of young people
• To develop a true shared scientific culture to enable Africa to solve its own problems using the most effective tools, those of the most advanced science
• Assist African organizations to develop research and pedagogical tools in experimental sciences
• Promote entrepreneurship and the creation of start-ups impacting Science and Technologies

Requirements:

• The Challenge is open to any person with African citizenship residing in Africa.
• Applicants residing outside Ethiopia must find their own funding support to participate to steps 3 and 4 of the contest.

Note that during the registration process, you will have to provide a single zip file containing the following pdf documents:

• the description of the prototype as described by the contest rules
• a copy of the ID cards of all candidates
• if candidates are members of an institution, a letter from that institution mentioning their affiliations to that institution and an authorization to candidate.

Awards

• 1^st Prize: 2500 euros and a 1-month research stay of a maximal cost of 3000 euros in a High-Tech lab.
• 2^nd Prize: 1500 euros and a 1-month research stay of a maximal cost of 3000 euros in a High-Tech lab.
• 3^rd Prize: 1000 euros.

Main dates

Step 2	August 1 to September 30, 2018	Shortlisting of 10 semi-finalist prototypes
Step 3	October 1 to October 31, 2018	Resubmission of the 10 semi-finalist prototypes
	November 1 to November 15, 2018	Re-evaluation of the 10 semi-finalist prototypes
	November 16 to November 30, 2018	Announcement of the 3 finalist prototypes
Step 4	December 8 – 10, 2018	Science fair and prize ceremony
Step 5	January to July, 2019	Organization of the research stay and research stay in the Hi-Tech Lab

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the APSA Challenge Science and Technology – Ethiopia 2018