Deadline: 31 January 2020
Applications are now open for Migration Entrepreneurship Prize for socially driven businesses that offer innovative solutions in countries and regions prone to strong migration movements in MENA and Africa.
The Prize is looking for the most promising seed-stage startups working to alleviate the pressure for people to take dangerous routes leaving their homes.
Project Partners
The organisations that developed the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize
- The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and its Human Security Division (HSD)
- The FDFA’s Human Security Division (HSD) is responsible for the promotion of peace and human rights as set out in the Federal Council’s foreign policy strategy. It focuses on the security of the individual and protecting people against violence, war and acts of arbitrary treatment. It works towards ensuring that policy on migrants and refugees is based on human dignity. The HSD is part of the Directorate of Political Affairs.
- Seedstars
- Empowering entrepreneurs in emerging markets
- Seedstars – a Swiss-based private group of companies – with the mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. The groups’ activities cover over 80 emerging ecosystems through a variety of activities such as the largest startup competition Seedstars World, Seedstars Media, training and acceleration programs, Seedspace with physical hubs, venture capital investments, and company building activities.
- Empowering entrepreneurs in emerging markets
Eligibility Criteria
- The venture must tackle solutions in MENA or Africa and can be aimed for society at large thus aimed at migrants and the local population. It can be implemented in the origin, host and transitory countries;
- Venture must work in one of the following solutions: labour migration, economic migration, migratory fluxes, migration alleviation, migration relief, refugees, movement of people, emigration, immigration, human dignity, economic livelihoods, social development, human rights, dignity, women’s empowerment, social business, leveraging private sector solutions for social change, diaspora engagement, sustainable development;
- Venture must be a seed-stage startup with a minimum viable product (MVP) and initial user traction.
Eligible Countries: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra, Leone, Togo, Ethiopia and Somalia.
For more information, visit https://migrationprize.seedstars.com/