

The CVC_AEIS Innovation Challenge is in line with the CVCNU innovation direction to deepen and amplify technology solutions, to create employment through bankable cohorts of businesses who are from the university system. Innovators will be from the university system in Nigeria and provide unique impact solutions to the focus challenge areas of this competition.

Rewards
The Challenge shall recognise top 20 innovators from across the country and the top three (3) winners shall get cash prize from the CVCNU
All participants with viable innovation shall gain 100% scholarship to product-lab and enterprise-lab training as well as full access to tech events, innovation acceleration and global investors.
Rewards
The Challenge shall recognise top 20 innovators from across the country and the top three (3) winners shall get cash prize from the CVCNU
All participants with viable innovation shall gain 100% scholarship to product-lab and enterprise-lab training as well as full access to tech events, innovation acceleration and global investors.
Rewards
The Challenge shall recognise top 20 innovators from across the country and the top three (3) winners shall get cash prize from the CVCNU
All participants with viable innovation shall gain 100% scholarship to product-lab and enterprise-lab training as well as full access to tech events, innovation acceleration and global investors
Focus Areas
Only solutions from these four areas will be accepted in this challenge edition.
- Agriculture
- Environment
- ICT (emerging tech & IoT)
- Security

Evaluation Criteria
Innovators will be from the university system in Nigeria and provide unique impact solutions to the focus challenge areas of this competition.

Agriculture
Prioritise yield improvement, storage, processing, and cut down post-harvest losses. Target crop value chains are – maize, rice, cowpea, soya bean, and aquaculture.

Environment
Your solutions should deploy renewable energy, creatively impacting a large market in Nigeria & climate action in delivery

ICT
To be considered, your submission must solve a Nigerian or African problem leveraging on emerging technologies and the IoT massive complex of solutions.

Security
Nigeria faces a myriad of security challenges relating to different sectors.. Pick one and work on a viable solution.
Evaluation Criteria
Innovators will be from the university system in Nigeria and provide unique impact solutions to the focus challenge areas of this competition.


How to apply
- Check the eligibility criteria to make sure you are fit to apply.
- Click on the application link
- Review your application carefully with your team again, and click submit


Application timeline
- Application portal opens – July 4, 2022
- Application portal closes – August 4, 2022
- Successful candidates will be contacted on or before August 18, 2022.


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