Call summary :

Objectives

- Helping African communities build resilience and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change locally.
- Empowering youth and local communities in Africa by providing skills, and tools and knowledge they need to create local impact.
- Integrational knowledge sharing: bringing together local traditional practices with scientific or modern methodologies.
- Addressing and solving climate challenges through entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa.

Eligibility
- Before applying, make sure your team is willing and able to commit to the requirements of ACIC.
- Your startup should be a team of at least 2 people. Applications from startups with less than 2 people will not be considered.
- Although not required, we specifically want to encourage female-led teams and teams with 40% – 50% female participants to apply.
- All the members of your team must be of African descent and based in Africa.
- Your startup must be focused around climate change mitigation and/or climate change adaptation.
- Your start-up should be atleast at the prototype or MVP stage. We will not consider projects still at the early or ideation stage
- All members of your team must be between 18 and 35 years old.
- All members of the team must have a good mastery of either English or French.

Benefits
- Up to USD 10,000 in prize money for winning startups to directly implement their innovative start-up ideas in their communities.
- Tailor-made curriculum for all participants to further develop their startups.
- Pitch your startup and solutions at a gathering of major climate stakeholders and an international audience.