RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition 2022

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.

About Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), was established in 2004, and is a consortium of 129 African universities operating within 38 countries spanning the African continent. See our impact here: www.ruforumimpact.org RUFORUM works with innovators at the different universities to help them develop their ideas into commercial ventures. The SME hub will enable these and other African innovators and entrepreneurs professionally grow their ideas into businesses, with access to free business management tools, mentors, investors as well as provide info...... read more

RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition

Aim and Benefits of RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition

The RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition primary purpose is to promote business innovation through entrepreneurship and provide seed funding to young entrepreneurs with creative and innovative business ideas to be valorized and enhance and foster a spirit of entrepreneurship among African youth. The competition specifically seeks to:

• Provide young entrepreneurs with the opportunity to showcase their businesses and share their development as an inspiration to many young African potential entrepreneurs
• Bring collective action towards the provision of seed funding to young entrepreneurs through a transparent and competitive process.
• Provide a platform for young entrepreneurs to demonstrate their impact and pitch their business with investors and stakeholders through capacity building opportunity.
• Create a network of young entrepreneurs across Africa working together and sharing experiences that escalate youth contribution and job creation in Africa. Target group

The challenge will target young people between 16-34 years.

Requirements for RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition Qualification

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.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit RUFORUM website.