Deadline: 6 June 2017
Orange Entrepreneur Club is currently inviting applications for its 7th edition of the 2017 Orange Social Venture Prize in order to reward the best innovative and socially responsible business project in Africa and the Middle East.
The Prize is awarded to three entrepreneurs or startups created less than three years ago that offer high-tech solutions based on mobiles or the Internet to meet the needs of the poorest populations in Africa and the Middle-East. The Award embodies the Group’s values and commitments in the MEA region. The prize unfolds in two phases:
- candidates participate to a national competition,
- An international jury gives a grand prize to the best national winners.
Award Information
For the international Grand-Prix awards are the following:
- 1st prize: the payment of an amount of € 25,000 (twenty-five thousand euros).
- 2nd prize: the payment of an amount of € 15,000 (fifteen thousand euros)
- 3rd prize: the payment of an amount of € 10,000 (ten thousand euros).
Eligibility Criteria
- Participation in the Competition is open to natural persons aged over 21 years at the date of the initiation of the Competition, the Regulations and to legal persons able to prove that they have exercised their activity for less than three (3) years on the day the Competition is initiated with access to the Internet and having an e-mail address (hereinafter the “Participant”/the “Participants”).
- The Project must concern a territory or a geographical market containing at least one country from the African continent and the Middle-East region in which the Orange group is present.
- The countries concerned are: Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Liberia, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Tunisia, Jordan, Liberia and Burkina-Faso.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit Orange Social Venture Prize 2017.