You can now submit applications for the Johnson & Johnson Africa Innovation Challenge which is a challenge to find solutions to some of the health problems facing the African continent.
The Africa Innovation competition is one of the many novel initiatives of Johnson & Johnson to promote and improve health care in different parts of the world.
Award recipients will be announced in February 2017 while the deadline to submit applications is January 17, 2017.
According to the rules, challenge submissions may come from anywhere in Africa, and from one or more individuals, teams or companies; subject to certain eligibility requirements set out in the terms and conditions for the challenge. Solutions will be evaluated based on their ability to meet the following criteria:
- Solution submission addresses at least one of the three challenge categories: Promoting Early Child Development & Maternal Health in Africa; Empowering Young Girls in Africa; Improving Family Well-being in Africa.
- Submission is innovative and creative.
- Submission is scalable.
- Submission outlines a commercialisation plan and how the award would help the applicant reach a critical milestone within the timeframe of a single year
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