AGEA Business Idea Competition

The AGEA network collaborates with dedicated academic and business partners in Africa and Germany to promote practice-oriented entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship promotion and developing business start-ups for Africa. AGEA delivers an annual AGEA Business Idea Competition (ABIC) organized to reach out, identify and support innovative entrepreneurial solutions to African challenges by African students, entrepreneurs, academics and researchers within the AGEA network and beyond. This year, the idea competition focuses on generating entrepreneurial and commercially viable solutions from research that can become spin-off start-ups or companies.

Objectives and Scope

The overarching aim of ABIC 2021 is to provide the opportunity for graduate and postgraduate (masters and doctoral) students and researchers at African universities to unearth their entrepreneurial abilities by generating relevant and viable business solutions through their scientific research endeavors.

Who can participate?

Interested persons from universities, research institutions and other HEIs in Africa can participate in the competition. Eligible participants must be:

  1. Students (Masters and PhD) 
  2. Academic staff (lecturers, professors) and researchers
  3. Early-stage entrepreneurs (university alumni – Bachelors, Masters or Doctorate)

How to participate

Participation can be in one of two (2) forms:

  1. An individual student, researcher, academic staff; or
  2. A team consisting of students, researchers, and entrepreneurs. At least one team member should be a student, academic staff or researcher.

Female participation: The participation of women is highly encouraged in this competition. Teams are encouraged to consider involving women as team members where possible.

Registration

To join the competition, eligible individuals and teams are required to register their participation as an individual or team: You will be required to provide brief information about the participants in a short online form.

For more details: https://www.ageacademy.de/idea-competition-2021/

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