If you are an African Entrepreneur with a healthtech startup or health research project having a cutting edge health solution, then you stand a chance to win up to $1-million in prize money, with the launch this week of the Al-Sumait Prize for African Development.
The annual Al-Sumait Prize honors individuals or institutions who have through their work or research made significant advances in the fields of food security, health and education in Africa. An initiative of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Amir of the State of Kuwait, it’s goal is to shine a light on those making a positive difference to sustainable development in Africa.
Calls for nominations for the health category award in the 2018 Al-Sumait Prize opened on Monday, earlier this week courtesy The Kuwait Foundation of the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS).
Nominations are open to innovators or organizations who have developed innovative solutions to Africa’s health challenges.
In a press release, KFAS director Adnan Shihab-Eldin said this year’s prize aims to recognise innovators and institutions that have made a “significant advancement within the field of health and have produced seminal impact and tangible results in health-care systems on the continent, especially for the underprivileged”.
To be considered for the prize, nominees must be able to present innovative research work or projects that have achieved a high-impact.
Conditions and requirements:
- The nominated candidates’ research work or projects and initiatives must be innovative and must have achieved high-impact in line with international standards for the prize.
- The submitted work must be of paramount importance in promoting significant economic, social, human resources and infrastructure development in the African continent within the announced field of the prize.
- Submitted research work of a nominated candidate should be composed of studies and applied research, published in referred journals and recognized at a global level within the announced field. The research outcomes need to have been applied after publication in African countries in the past plus ten Adequate supporting evidences need to be provided.
- Nominations are to be accepted from institutions and scientific centers (universities, institutes and centers of scientific research) as well as from competent regional or international and UN organizations and awards and former winners in the field of the prize or former evaluation members. Nominations will only be accepted through institutions or other possible nominators mentioned above.
- All submissions must be submitted in English. If the work is carried out in other working UN languages, a comprehensive summary of the nominated work in English must be submitted.
- Fill in the prize nomination form and send it along with the scientific production works electronically in PDF format via CD, DVD, Flash Memory or via the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) Prizes Office email alsumaitprize@kfas.org.kw. Applications are addressed to the Director General of the foundation.
Think your healthtech startup or health research project should be considered for the prize? You can fill in the nomination form here.
Applicants have until 30 June to apply.
