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.

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

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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