Deadline: 31 May 2018
Orange Entrepreneur Club is inviting applicants for the 8th edition of its 2018 Orange Social Venture Prize that aims to reward the best innovative and socially responsible business projects 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.
This 8th edition unfolds in two phases: first the candidates participate to a national competition, then an international jury gives a grand prize to the best national winners. At both the national and international step, the viewers of this site can vote to add a name to the jury shortlist.
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.
- The Project must involve Information and Communications Technologies and have a societal impact.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit Orange Social Venture Prize.