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The Orange Social Venture Prize 2024 in Africa and the Middle East ( €70,000 Euro Prize)

by OFA
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Application Deadline: May 26, 2024

Applications are now open for the 2024 Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East. An undeniable catalyst for progress, technological innovation can only reach its full potential if it is supported by a solid, viable business proposition that meets current and future social and environmental needs.

As well as encouraging innovation, Orange also rewards the positive entrepreneurial spirit of dynamic start-ups within the framework of its Social Venture Prize. Since 2011 this International Grand Prix competition has welcomed start-ups from 17 countries in Africa and the Middle East. It identifies, rewards, and supports business propositions that make a positive social and environmental impact.

To encourage sustainable, responsible, and inclusive development, the International Women’s Prize was introduced in 2020, promoting business ventures led by women entrepreneurs.

Requirements

Candidates must:

  • Be 21 years and over
  • Present a social entrepreneurship project based on NICT (New Information and Communication Technologies)
  • The candidates must present a project that involves at least one of the 17 countries
  • Individual: you must be 21 or older on the competition’s launch date.
  • Legal entity: your company must have been operating for less than 3 years on the competition’s launch date.
  • Your project must be up and running in one of Orange’s 17 countries in Africa and the Middle East:
  • Botswana,
  • Burkina Faso, 
  • Cameroon, 
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo, 
  • Egypt, 
  • Equatorial Guinea, 
  • Guinea Bissau, 
  • Guinea Conakry, 
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jordan, 
  • Liberia, 
  • Madagascar, 
  • Mali, Morocco, 
  • Central African Republic, 
  • Senegal, 
  • Sierra Leone, 
  • and Tunisia


  • Awards
    International Grand Prix
  • 1st prize: €25,000
  • 2nd prize: €15,000
  • 3rd prize: €10,000

The 10 finalists within the OSVP International Grand Prix and the winner of the International Women’s Prize will also receive 6 to 9 months of business development support.

International Women’s Prize: Winner: €20,000

Programme Details

The first phase will take place between May 27 to August 30:
each application will be assessed according to the rules of the national competitions and up to three winners will be selected in each country. The international phase will then begin. An evaluation committee of Orange employees will preselect 10 finalists from the national winners.

The second international phase will take place from September 2 to 26: 
these finalists will be evaluated by a grand jury of influential representatives from the African tech world, who will choose the three overall winners of the International Grand Prix.

At the end of October:
 this jury will also be responsible for choosing the winner of the International Women’s Prize.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Orange Social Venture Prize 2024 in Africa and the Middle East

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Call for Applications

Orange Social Venture Prize 2019 for Innovative Startups in Africa & Middle East ( 50,000 Euros Prize)

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: May 30th 2019

The Orange Social Venture Prize contest aims to reward the best innovative and socially responsible business projects in Africa and the Middle East. This 9th 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.

Requirements:

Participation in the Competition is open to natural persons aged over 21years at the date of the initiation of the Competition mentioned in article 2 of 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 initiatedwith access to the Internet and having an e-mail address (hereinafter the”Participant”/the “Participants”).Excluded from the Competition participation are:

-Natural persons of less than 21years;

-Legal persons who have exercised their activity for over three years on the day on which the Competition is initiated;-Persons having conceded rights to their Project

-Persons having collaborated directly in the organisation of the Competition (such as personnel of the Orangegroup belonging to the CSR MEA and Partnerships departments, the members of the subsidiaries in Africaand the Middle-East participating in the organisation of the Prize and Innovacom personnel);

-The professionals of the national juries as well as the jury members of the international Grand Prix and their families;-Natural or legal person without personal bank account.

Participation conditions

The Competition is accessible only via the Internet.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, Burkina-Faso,Cameroon, Egypt, Guinea Conakry,Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Jordan,Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Liberia, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republicof the Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leonne and Tunisia

Composition of the entry file

The participants must complete and send the participation form and the project file via the Site within the given deadlines.

These two documents will be the only documents consulted during the pre-selection phase -as such in Article 5.3 of this Rules. The application file (hereinafter ‘Dossier’ or ‘Candidature File’) contains:

1.Entry form: It is available on line and should be filled in directly on the SiteAsterisked fields must be filled in to validate the entry.

2.Entry file relative to the Project

The format authorised is that of a file in PDF format of 10Mb maximum.

Important:The name of the said file must be strictly identical to the name of the project mentioned in the first field of the entry form.

The elements for constituting the Project File are the following:

1.Summary presentation of the Project: between 1000and 2000characters

2.Analysis of the market

3.Identification of the market opportunity

4. Presentation of the product/service proposed

5.Information about the management team

6.Financial forecasts

7.Evaluation of the societal impact

Awards and rules

  • 1st Grand Prize: €25,000
  • 2nd Grand Prize: €15,000
  • 3rd Grand Prize: €10,000

Orange experts provide the winners with customised digital mentoring and advice. These international awards complete the various prizes delivered locally to national winners.

The new edition of the contest, for the ninth year in a row, is looking for the best business venture projects using technological innovation in the service of the society and/or the environment. If you are an entrepreneur with a project or a project idea to be deployed in one of the 18 participating countries, you can apply to the Orange Social Venture Prize Africa and Middle East, starting today and for the next three months.

Unchanged features
There are two contests in one: first, the projects compete for national awards against other projects deployed in the same country; then, the winners compete in an international competition, with a different jury and higher stakes. The three international winners get back home with prizes of 25000, 15000 and €10000. If you are looking for support for your social- and environment-minded project, apply through the registration form.

The new: easier registration, videos
From now on, the registration form first requires you to create an Entrepreneur Club account (to be used only for the contest). You can then fill in the registration form in as many steps as you need, till the end of the registration phase. Click on Preview or Validate to save your current answers to the form questions. Clicking Validate does also send your application to the evaluation process, so save that for the end, although you are still free to modify your application afterwards.


Moreover, this year, the candidates have the option of linking to a short YouTube video pitch of their project. Both Internet users and project evaluators will be able to watch this short (90 seconds max) video on the public page of the application.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Orange Social Venture Prize 2019

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Orange Social Venture Prize Africa & Middle East 2018
Call for Applications

Orange Social Venture Prize 2018 for Innovative Startups in Africa and Middle East (50,000 Euros in Prizes)

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: May 31st, 2018 (9pm GMT).

The Orange Social Venture Prize aims to promote social innovation by supporting development through information and communication technologies (ICT). In addition to funding of up to 25,000 euros, Orange will provide support to the three winners of the Grand Prize for six months from business and telecoms professionals.

The contest aims to reward the best innovative and socially responsible business projects in Africa and the Middle East. 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. Don’t wait anymore, go for it, apply!

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.

2018 is the eighth edition of the Social Venture Prize. It was launched in 2011 and was a major event for the teams at our subsidiaries in the region. This year, it evolves in order to reward more startups: a first phase of national competitions will take place in the participating Orange countries (refer to the list of countries in the Rules document online) and each country will designate 3 national winners who will compete automatically at the International Grand Prix.

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Entrepreneurs over the age of 21 and start-ups operating for less than three years can qualify for the Prize. There are no nationality requirements.
  • The projects must be implemented in one of the following countries in which Orange operates in Africa and the Middle-East, and listed in the Contest Rules.
  • The eligible countries are: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Botswana, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mali, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Madagascar, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jordan and Burkina Faso.

Awards and rules

  • 1st Grand Prize: €25,000
  • 2nd Grand Prize: €15,000
  • 3rd Grand Prize: €10,000

Orange experts provide the winners with customised digital mentoring and advice. These international awards complete the various prizes delivered locally to national winners.

How to Apply:

  • The candidates have to submit their application form online at www.entrepreneurclub.orange.com, in the Orange Social Venture Prize section.

Selection Criteria:

  • The jury will consider the social and environmental impact of the projects, their degree of innovation, the possibility of expanding the product or service to several countries and the financial viability and feasibility of the projects submitted.

Timeline:

  • Registration : March 1 – May 31
  • National vote : June 1 – July 2
  • International vote : September 25 – October 3
  • The deadline for submissions is May 31st, 2018 (9pm GMT).

  • The national juries will meet and nominate the 3 national winners by country in September 2018 and the International Grand Jury will meet in October to select the 3 winners of the International Grand Prix.
  • The international award ceremony will take place on November 14th at the AfricaCom Awards, the telecoms reference conference in Africa that will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Orange Social Venture Prize 2018

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Orange Social Venture Prize 2017 for Innovative Startups in Africa and Middle East (50,000 Euros in Prizes)

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: June 2017 21:00 GMT

The Orange Social Venture Prize 2017 contest aims to reward the best innovative and socially responsible business project in Africa and the Middle East. This 7th 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. Each time, the viewers of this site have a chance to add a name to the shortlist through a voting process.

The Orange Social Venture Prize aims to promote social innovation by supporting development through information and communication technologies (ICT). In addition to funding of up to 25,000 euros, Orange will provide support to the three winners of the Grand Prize for six months from business and telecoms professionals.

As in previous years, the OSVPAM will be awarded to innovative projects which make use of information and communication technologies to improve living conditions for the peoples of Africa and the Middle East in fields such as health, finance, education and agriculture.

New for this 7th edition, the competition will start with a national phase during which each of Orange’s 17 participating subsidiaries will examine projects submitted in its country and will designate three winners. The next phase will be an international one in which the winners of each country – 51 in all – will compete before an international panel of judges for the OSVPAM Grand Prize, with three winners receiving their awards during the AfricaCom Awards Ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, on 8 November 2017.

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Entrepreneurs over the age of 21 and start-ups operating for less than three years can qualify for the Prize. There are no nationality requirements.
  • The projects must be implemented in one of the following countries in which Orange operates in Africa and the Middle-East, and listed in the Contest Rules.
  • The eligible countries are: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Botswana, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mali, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Madagascar, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jordan and Burkina Faso.

Benefits

  • In addition to national prizes, the three international winners will receive 25,000 euros, 15,000 euros and 10,000 euros respectively, along with support from professionals in start-up creation and funding.
Awards 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).
  • Furthermore, accompaniment will be proposed to the 3 international Grand-Prix winners in the form of monthly telephone meetings during which the winners will present a progress report.
  • They will thus benefit from advice given by young company creation and financing professionals. This accompaniment will be proposed to the 3 international Grand-Prix winners during the six (6) months following attribution of the awards.
  • For the national prize, each subsidiary of Orange will offer lots and / or accompaniment specific to the country.

Selection Criteria:

  • The social and/ or environmental impact; the Projects will be evaluated according to the significance of their social and/or environmental impact (number of jobs created, effects on health, education, energy needs, etc.).
  • The degree of innovation provided in the use of digital communications resource (landline or mobile telecommunications) to enable the product or service to be launched.
  • The possibility of extending distribution of the product to several countries.
  • The financial viability of the project by succeeding in self-financing the project at the end of its launch period.
  • The realistic and operational character of the project (motivation of the team, contacts with the partners of the project, etc.)

Timeline:

  • Registration: February 28th – June 6th 2017
  • National Vote: July 7th – July 17th 2017
  • International Vote – September 25th – October 3rd 2017

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Orange Social Venture Prize 2017

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Call for Applications

Orange Social Venture Prize 2016 for Innovative Startups in Africa & Middle East ( 55,000 Euros Prize)

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: 21 September 2016

Orange launches the 6th edition of the Orange Social Venture Prize. Four winners will receive 55,000 Euro. If they use information and communication technologies (ICT) in an innovative fashion to exert a positive influence on society and/or the environment in Africa or the Middle East, they can have a piece in this adventure. If you are this very person and your social entrepreneurship could enjoy a little help, take part to the contest!

The Orange Social Venture Prize rewards entrepreneurs developing products or services that use ICT in an innovative way to meet the needs of people in Africa or the Middle East in fields such as health, agriculture, education, energy, industry or trade.
Over the past five years, the thousands of projects which have been submitted for the Orange Social Venture Prize display the dynamism of entrepreneurs and the potential of the telecommunications sector in the region.

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Any entrepreneur (aged 21 or over) or legal entity that has been in existence for fewer than three years at the time of the competition may participate at no cost and with no restriction on nationality.
  • Submitted projects must be designed to be deployed in at least one of the African or Middle Eastern countries in which Orange operates (as listed in the rules) and must use information and communications technology in an innovative way to help improve the living conditions of the populations in these countries.

A few Orange Social Venture Prize facts:

– it has been existing since 2011;
– candidates applied with more than 2600 projects;
– Orange rewarded 16 winners with 265,000 Euro;
– 22 projects benefited from hundreds of hours of mentoring and advice by experts.

Benefits

  • The projects of 4 start-ups will be recognized during the awards ceremony with prizes of 25,000, 15,000 and 10,000, while 5,000 euros will go to the winner of the Special Cultural Content Prize.
  • The 10 finalists of the Prize and the “Entrepreneur Club’s choice” award will also receive special support from the Grow Movement NGO for 6 months.
Awards
  • The awards will be broken down as follows:
  • 1st prize: the payment 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).
  • 4th Special Cultural Content prize: the payment of an amount of €5,000 ( five thousand euros).

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Orange Social Venture Prize 2016 

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