The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is sponsoring a competition young African entrepreneurs (less than age 40) to showcase their business innovations in agribusiness at the RUFORUM Biennial Conference in October 2018.
About the Competition:
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is a network of 85 Universities in 35 African countries is pleased to announce the 2018 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC). The 2018 RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC) whose overall purpose is to catalyse entrepreneurship through promotion of business innovation and provision of seed funding to young entrepreneurs with creative and innovative business ideas among African youth. RUYAEC invites young (<35
years) African entrepreneurs and incubates to compete for 10 awards to show case their innovations, enterprises and business concepts and propositions.
The focus is for the young entrepreneurs to share their stories at an international stage with close to 1200 participants drawn from academia, business and industry, development organisations, practitioners and
philanthropists. It is hoped that through this competition, young entrepreneurs’ business concepts, impact, innovation and business opportunities can be expanded.
While the focus of this competition is on innovation in agribusiness, other innovations, incubations, business
enterprises and business concepts along ICTs, health, engineering, natural resources, meteorology, urbanization, green economy, and transport and communication, among other areas, will be considered.
Eligibility:
Applications are invited from enterprises and individuals that meet the following eligibility
criteria:
- Persons with an established business enterprise and/or those with innovations that can
potentially be commercialized and/or those with business concepts. - The business enterprise/potential enterprise should have a defined business model that show case the innovativeness of the proposed enterprise/business/innovation.
- Persons in the age category 16-34 years.
- Submissions should be in English or French using the template provided.
Value of the Competition:
The ten (10) competitively selected business enterprises will receive all expenses paid trip (air
ticket, conference registration, and hotel costs) for participation at the RUFORUM Biennial
Conference (22-26 October, 2018) in Nairobi, Kenya. The selected young entrepreneurs will
receive a cash price award.
Application Deadline:
31st August, 2018.
How to Apply:
All applications should be submitted through the www.ruforum.org/younginnovators/
