Contests

Application Deadline: May 10th, 2023. Now in its fourth year, Imagine Cup Junior is an exciting opportunity for students aged 13-18 years old to learn about technology and how it …

International Women Day Conference is a platform and beacon for all female entrepreneurs to gain knowledge, network and receive relevant tips on how to succeed as a female in every …

Application Deadline: March 31st, 2023 Applications for the HiiL Innovating Justice Challenge 2023 are open! The Justice Accelerator is HiiL’s flagship innovation programme that funds, trains and coaches a global …

Application Deadline: March 3rd, 2023 (11:59 PM EST) Returning for its 10th edition, the World Bank Group Youth Summit aims to engage youth on the most pressing topics facing their …

Application Deadline: March 19, 2023 The World Intellectual Property Day 2023 Video Competition is an opportunity for you to share your ideas on how an inclusive innovation ecosystem can unleash …

Application Deadline: 23rd April 2023 before midnight – Central Europe Time (CET) The 2023 Advancing Development Goals International Contest for Graduate Students aims to present innovative and pragmatic solutions to …

Application Deadline: March 31, 2023. Submissions is now been accepted for the fifth annual global blog writing competition, co-sponsored by the World Bank Group and the Financial Times.  COVID-19 has …

Application Deadline: 2 June 2023. The WTO has issued a call for young economists to submit papers for the 2023 WTO Essay Award. The aim of the award is to …

Application Deadline: February 28, 2023 Applications are now open for the Nigeria Media Innovation Program’s (NAMIP’s) Sustainability Challenge. Winners will be awarded up to $50,000 for their project and join …

Application Deadline:  1 July 2023 Join the APNI challenge to shine a light on plant nutrition research and development across Africa through photography. Your contributions will help to build a …

Application Deadline: 28th February 2023. UNWTO Youth in Tourism Innovation Challenge is an exclusive platform being provided to innovative African youth in travel and tourism looking for funding, partnership and …

Application Deadline: March 1st, 2023 Recognising the imminent need to channel capital towards ocean conservation, CS recently launched a for-return product to offer to its clients, in conjunction with the …

Application Deadline: February 23, 2023 AFD Group continues to strengthen its support for African start-ups and digital players for the sixth consecutive year. Since 2016, the annual objective of the …

Application Deadline: February 1st, 2023 Welcome to this $50,000 global creative data challenge. WGS supply the datasets and themes. You provide creative, intuitive data-visualizations that tell a story or reveal …

Application Deadline: January 20, 2023 UNESCO remains committed to meaningful youth engagement, with youth embraced by the Organization as both beneficiaries and key partners in co-shaping and co-delivery its mandate …

Application Deadline: January 17, 2023 With the support of the UK South Africa -Tech Hub, an initiative of the UK Government, SOLVE@Waterfront, and OceanHub Africa are calling for innovative solutions to address …

Application Deadline: May 31st, 2023 The ISC3 Innovation Challenge 2023 has the topic “Sustainable Chemistry and Agriculture” ! The annual ISC3 Innovation Challenge is thematically oriented along a once-per-year selected focus …

Application Deadline: 14th February 2023. Building on UNESCO’s cross-disciplinary mandate on culture, education and natural sciences, Water Science Policy, under the patronage of UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Program, is facilitating …

Application Deadline: 15th January 2023. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in keeping with its strategic intent as encapsulated in the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS 2020-2030) pillar 8 …

Application Deadline: March 10, 2023 The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development in partnership with the Bank of Industry invites Nigerian youth to participate in the 2nd National Sixty-Day …

Application Deadline: February 28, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST.  Hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is Rice University’s internationally-recognized initiative devoted to the support of …

The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition is organised by the Centre for Human Rights based at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa, in partnership …

Application Deadline: January 18th, 2023 at 23h59 GMT. Fashionomics Africa, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme, Parsons School of Design, strategic consulting and communications agency BPCM, the Ellen MacArthur …

Application Deadline: February 28, 2023 The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest is open to participants aged 18 to 33. It aims to promote young photographers and support them in their strive for professional perfection. …

Application Deadline: January 15, 2023 Every year, the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge invites teams of graduate students from around the world to develop and pitch creative financial approaches to …

Application Deadline: 31 December 2022. Academic institutions play an important role in the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing knowledge and expertise in key subject areas. In …

Application Deadline:  15 December 2022. The Social Fiction Design Competition invites visionaries and dreamers all over the world with a knack for creative writing to share how they wish to …

Application Deadline: 10 January 2023.  The UONGOZI Youth Leadership Competition is organised as a component of the African Leadership Forum (ALF) to provide a space for the youth of Africa and …

Application Deadline: 10 January 2023 The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year. Enter your work for free and you …

Application Deadline: December 31st, 2022 DEG Impulse gGmbH and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with funds from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), support young …

Application Deadline: 1 February 2023 Compete in the St. Gallen Symposium Global Essay Competition and qualify for participation as a Leader of Tomorrow in the world’s premier opportunity for cross-generational debates: The …

UNDP and FCMB have launched the AgroHack Challenge to crowdsource innovative solutions to the challenges faced across the agricultural ecosystem in Benue State and Nigeria at large.  These challenges include: …

Application Deadline:  January 17, 2023 Midnight EAT. Through the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, USAID and Mozilla are supporting the conceptualization, piloting, and scaling of curricula that integrate interdisciplinary perspectives with computer …

Application Deadline: 15 December 2022 Dell Technologies has launched the annual graduation project competition for senior undergraduate students from universities in Middle East, Africa and Turkey. The competition is intended …

Application Deadline: November 20, 2022 Global AgriInno Challenge, a worldwide competition for youth agripreneurs and innovators, showcases and promotes smart digital innovative talent. With the last two sessions successfully held in 2020 …

Application Deadline: January 29, 2023. Harvard GSD’s Wheelwright Prize is an international competition for early-career architects. Winners receive a $100,000 (USD) fellowship to foster intensive, innovative architectural research that is …

Application Deadline: November 24, 2022 Tech for Sustainability is a global initiative for students, researchers, startups and innovative individuals to leverage technology to solve real-world sustainability challenges and shape our future along with Siemens. Participate by …

Application Deadline: February 13th, 2023 (until 4:00 am (UTC)) The Nikon Photo Contest nurtures an aspirational community of creators who share important stories and influence the way people think through …

Application Deadline: November 4, 2022The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and IBER-RUTAS – Program that aims to contribute to the promotion of cultural diversity in Ibero-America for the protection of …